Sentences with phrase «for key marginal»

The Labour parliamentary candidate for a key marginal seat was arrested after crashing into a roundabout on Monday.

19th July 2017, Labour List: We mustn't hang about: party to pick 75 candidates for key marginal seats this year

Not exact matches

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

Labour have high hopes for Tory scalp in this this key marginal.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Dobell is more at risk for Labor than its 5.1 % margin suggests, while Robertson remains a key marginal seat by any measure.

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This finding correlates with one from last week's Crosby / Textor poll for the Telegraph (carried out before Cleggmania) which found that that the Conservatives would fail to win any of the 20 key Lib Dem - Tory marginals.

David Cameron said the party's second place in Scotland and its showing in England, where it took control of Peterborough Council and won council seats in key Westminster marginals such as Dudley and Nuneaton, represented a good result for a party in government for six years.

Lord Ashcroft has repeated the same sort of large marginals poll that PoliticsHome did in 2008 and 2009, looking at the clusters of key marginal seats that will provide the battleground for the next general election.

Oakeshott believes the Tories are outspending progressive candidates, and believes the appetite for anti-Tory tactical voting remains strong, especially since so much of the polling by Lord Ashcroft in key marginals can be used to guide voters how to vote tactically.

Finally, despite the important effects of the substantial rise of UKIP on the shares of the vote for the two main parties, UKIP are not set to win many seats nor have a disproportionate effect on the competition for seats between the two main parties in their key marginals.

Janice Small is director of Conservative Action for Electoral Reform and fought the key marginal of Batley and Spen at the general election, gaining an additional 5,000 votes.

In the Labour - Lib Dem marginal of Oldham East and Saddleworth, the key question for candidates was whether they were laughing with you - or at you.

While many progressives are calling for anti-Tory tactical voting by Lib Dem supporters in the key 100 Labour - Conservative marginals, Clegg rejects this advice.

Labour has established a «convincing» 11 - point lead over Conservatives in the key marginal seats Ed Miliband would need to win to secure victory in next year's general election, according to a new poll by ComRes for ITV News.

Momentum has been given much of the credit for the party's gains in the June election, during which it deployed thousands of activists and volunteers in key marginal seats.

Could be key for East Mids marginals in Gen Elxn

«What we did for two years was reconnect with ordinary working people in key marginal seats.

The key learnings are that while middle - income families are generously rewarded with the combination of tax rate reductions and enhanced refundable tax credits, but their marginal tax rates increase significantly as incomes rise to an upper middle class range: 50 % for income levels between $ 70,000 and $ 80,000 and over 67 % for income levels between $ 90,000 and $ 120,000.

For the graduating class of 2007 in the study's three key states, results were mixed: Georgia's class of ’07 graduates only showed a marginal improvement of 0.666 points on their credit score, while ’07 graduates in Texas and Idaho actually registered lower credit scores by an average of 0.938 and 7.332 points, respectively.

It's not... the market's only the tip of the spear for the entire Chinese economy, which has obviously evolved into the key marginal driver now of the global economy.

In Europe, the European Central bank focuses on three key interest rates for the Euro area as its way to manage inflation and the economy: the main short term lending interest rate on the main refinancing operations (MRO); the rate on the deposit facility which banks may use to make overnight deposits; the rate on the marginal lending facility, which offers overnight credit to banks.