Sentences with phrase «disastrous election performance»

The Tory leader utterly ignored her party's disastrous election performance as she confirmed a deal with Northern Ireland's right - wing DUP in an extraordinary statement on the steps of Downing Street.

Meanwhile, Tory MPs sat grim - faced following their own leader's disastrous election performance.

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[41] Attlee therefore led Labour through the 1935 election, which saw the party stage a partial comeback from its disastrous 1931 performance, winning 38 % of the vote, the highest share Labour had won up to that point, and gaining over one hundred seats.

And whoever wins, given the disastrous electoral performance of all parties at the last election to the Left of Labour (with the sole exception of the Greens in Brighton), it will continue to deserve the support of the Left outside the Labour Party and in the trade unions.

A UK Independence Party (UKIP) spokesman has been much mocked on social media for comparing the party's disastrous performance in the English local elections to the Black Death.