Sentences with phrase «crushing electoral defeat»

Following a crushing electoral defeat, the summer edition of the Fabian Review asks how Labour can flourish once again in Britain.

The crushing electoral defeat of the Ethiopian opposition does not actually help the ruling party and encourages its slide into authoritarianism

His time in Downing Street ended 20 years ago, when Major suffered a crushing electoral defeat at the hands of Blair's New Labour.

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The key fact is that the crushing defeat of the Tories is simply part of the trend of Tory electoral decline.

It took Tony Blair just three years from his rise to the Labour leadership in 1994 to turn these years of habitual defeat into a moment of colossal, crushing victory in which the same Labour activists who had soldiered so miserably for so long became all - conquering electoral troops who, as Blair puts it in one of the phrases that make his book A Journey so readable, «scattered our enemies in the imaginations of their hearts».