Sentences with phrase «election disaster»

A new poll suggests Labour and the Liberal Democrats are both facing potential general election disaster in Scotland.

Parties can recover quite happily from local election disasters as Labour is now demonstrating after its catastrophic demolition in 2009.

On July 17, after a series of election disasters, the Telegraph turned on the Tory parliamentary party with venom.

It is time to convince the remaining governments, which still permit this barbaric slaughter, that aligning themselves with the shooting lobby is no longer acceptable by the broader community, and is a recipe for election disaster, rather than election success.

The Prime Minister's voice cracked as she accepted victory in her constituency of Maidenhead - as she faced election disaster and calls to resign.

National Republicans, trying to prevent another special election disaster, are intensifying their involvement in an upcoming race for an Arizona congressional seat.

In a strange quirk of fate, Labour's poll rating is almost identical to the party's performance in 1983 — regularly held up as the benchmark by which all other general election disasters should be judged.

Lib Dems, paralysed by the shock of successive local elections disasters, have realised they have no other choice but to cling on until 2015.

«The 10,000 members who joined the party in the immediate aftermath of election disaster are the type of people who donate money to save mangy bears tethered to stakes in castle moats as a tourist attraction.

The tax radicalism marks you as an unserious candidate and a general election disaster, when somewhat conservative voters want a competent winner.

Those spending time with Theresa May report she is finally finding her feet after the General Election disaster.

The government remains addicted to the same lies and delusions that powered it through the 2016 conference, Lancaster House speech and general election disaster.

Until nearly 9 pm on the night before parliament broke up for Christmas, the prime minister appeared well set to end the year in better shape politically than at any time since the election disaster in June.

Turning round last year's general election disaster — when Labour lost all but one of its 41 Scottish seats — was never going to be straightforward.

Ed Miliband, general election disaster and now Jeremy Corbyn.

But, notwithstanding the current polls that he likes to cite, Sanders at the top of the Democratic ticket threatens a general election disaster, and not just for the top spot.

Maybe he believes that the Barnsley by - election disaster's left him no choice.

Theresa May has held fewer parliamentary votes in the nine months after her June election disaster than David Cameron or Tony Blair after any of their elections.