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YLAL welcomes the report as an important first step for Labour in developing a principled policy to improve access to justice and looks forward to engaging further with the Commission as it develops its ideas before publishing its final report next year.

Setting out the education priorities for Labour in the election campaign, he called for all teachers to have qualified teacher status or to be moving towards it and to allow local authorities to be able to open new schools «on an equal footing with other providers».

Stevenage is one of the safest councils for Labour in the Anglia region with the party having an overall majority since the authority was created in 1973.

This does not necessarily mean they would be the most winnable seats for the Labour in practice, or that they are the seats the Labour party will actually be targetting at the next general election.

Derby North will be an easy hold for Labour in 2015 and before too long will be a safe Labour seat in an even year.

The leader of the council and the mayor lost their seats on a difficult night for Labour in Derbyshire.

It's make or break for Labour in this week's Crewe by - election as the party faces an uphill battle to hold onto the seat.

The poll shows a 30 % swing across Scotland from the 2010 general election, leaving the SNP with a 29 % lead over Labour (52/23) compared with a 22 % lead for Labour in what was the best result across the UK for Labour in 2010 (42/20).

And there has also been a positive story for Labour in the English marginals, according to Lord Ashcroft's polling.

But what happened was meltdown for Labour in Scotland.

Of course, that worked a treat for Labour in 2015, when they were wiped out in Scotland.

As Stephen Bush notes, it represents a tough test for Labour in terms of making gains, as it's the kind of «suburban», pro-Leave area in which Corbyn struggled to make major gains at last year's general election.

It is even possible that — Individual Electoral Registration notwithstanding — citizens who do not normally vote, and those eligible to vote for the first time, will turn out for Labour in sufficient numbers to swing the result.

Jo Stevens won the seat back for Labour in 2015.

He says he was Europe spokesman for Labour in the Commons at the time of the Maastricht debates in the early 1990s, and at the time Labour made alliances with the Tory Eurosceptics.

Terrible night for Labour in Rotherham - they'll still control the council (they have for 80 years) but with a proper opposition.

ProfHoward «NI Labour activists get up at the crack of dawn, go on the ferry, and campaign for Labour in Stranraer»

Mr Corbyn saw his net rating drop 16 % compared to last month's survey, but there was better news for Labour in the voting intention.

The eleven point lead for Labour in the capital represents a swing of 4.5 points to Labour since the election, suggesting a smaller swing to Labour than in the country as a whole (it would be the equivalent of a 2 point national Labour lead), and significantly less than YouGov's recent London polls.

PS: Since Labour don't stand in NI, I have noticed that NI Labour activists get up at the crack of dawn, go on the ferry, and campaign for Labour in Stranraer.

«It is his prerogative to decide his frontbench team and I will continue to support and work for Labour in any way I can.

There is no future for Labour in the comfortable but deadening policies of the past.

The electoral map between coalition and the opposition — except for Labour in London and the Scottish Lib Dems — presents quite a stark north - south divide, which the pattern of public spending and cuts will exacerbate.

He first won his seat for Labour in the 1997 general election, having contested the predecessor Littleborough and Saddleworth seat at a by - election in 1995, [7] which was marked by Labour's particularly vicious and personal campaign, attacking the Liberal Democrat candidate, Chris Davies, as «high on tax and soft on drugs».

Anglesey had been won by either the Liberal Party or the Whigs at every election since 1784, until Thomas surpisingly gained it for Labour in 1918.

There was better news for Labour in the nearby ward of Dinnington, however, with the party gaining the seat from Ukip.

The most interesting question for Labour in the polls will be about Gordon Brown.

Are you really gullible enough to believe this is some Damascean conversion, or is it far more likely that Gurchuran, who stood for Labour in the Hillingdon & Ealing GLA seat twice, has been on the London Labour Board until recently, and as I say was Deputy Labour Leader on the Council is actually defecting because Labour completely and utterly botched its selection process.

Liam Byrne, the shadow work and pensions secretary, will speak for Labour in the welfare benefits uprating bill debate.

As well as going into some detail on matters from constitutional arrangements to confidence in the Labour Assembly Members seeking to step into Rhodri Morgan's shoes, the headline announcement to come out of this wealth of data was burgeoning support for the Welsh Conservatives and the utter collapse in that for Labour in Wales.

Clive Lewis is probably the best hope for labour in 2020.

«It is his prerogative to decide his front bench team and I will continue to support and work for Labour in any way I can.»

Tellingly, race relations here caused problems for Labour in the last election too, when it was claimed a raid on 25 suspected illegal immigrants on a council estate inundated by Africans had been postponed to avoid embarrassing Tony Blair.

What could be a bad headline result for Labour in a batch of seats they only just missed out on in 2010 could be an excellent one in a batch of target seats they need for an overall majority.

It's surprising considering that 85 % of students voted Remain in the referendum, Manchester Central saw a 15 % increase in 18 - 24 voters voting for Labour in this year's Snap Election (as many believe that Corbyn and Labour are the antidote to Theresa May's Hard Brexit or No Deal Brexit) and Manchester homes 40,000 students across the city.

When Nuneaton was held by the Conservatives, then Warwickshire North — Labour's number one target seat — it set a pattern for Labour in the Midlands.

The election of a left - winger like Corbyn may be a partial solution for Labour in Scotland.

In 1999, a year after the formation of Holyrood which he helped coordinate, Sheppard's bid to be on the panel of candidates for Labour in the Scottish elections was rejected.

There was better news for Labour in last night's other by - election in Stoke - on - Trent Central where Gareth Snell retained the seat for his party.

He was later appointed as Minister of State for Labour in the Federal cabinet.

The selection to have attracted most attention in the media is that of Dr John Marek (pictured) to contest the seat of Wrexham - which he represented for Labour in the Commons between 1983 and 2001, and in the Assembly between 1999 and 2003, before going on to win the seat as an Independent in 2003 for a four - year term.

However, as Gerry Adams pointed out, what is needed is not a change of personnel but a change of policy and Labour's disastrous right wing course in government Ireland has strong lessons for Labour in Britain.

If the press failed to help the Tories in 1992, however, it must be equally unlikely to do much for Labour in 1996 or 1997.

An alternative explanation is that Liberal Democrats intending to cast «tactical» votes for Labour in constituencies where their own party had no chance may have taken fright.

At national party level, the Electoral Commission fined the three largest parties for breaches of spending regulations, levying the highest fines since its foundation: [221] # 20,000 for Labour in October 2016, [222] # 20,000 for the Liberal Democrats in December 2016, [223] and # 70,000 for the Conservative Party in March 2017.

Scots Labour need some big guns batting for Labour in Holyrood, big enough to take on Salmond.

Mr Murphy said it was an «enormous» moment for the SNP, but he appeared determined as he declared the fightback for Labour in Scotland would begin straight away.

That just about says it all for Labour in 2014.

But there was some comfort for Labour in Doncaster, where mayoral candidate Ros Jones won on the first round of voting, and the party extended its majority in Swansea and held onto Cardiff.

«I think the most powerful argument for Labour in this election - because of the way the polls are, and the way the opinion polls are and the leadership issue - the most powerful argument for Labour is to say it's important for our democracy that the Government is held to account and needs a strong opposition.»