Sentences with phrase «gain for labour»

That is equivalent to a gain for Labour relative to all other parties of 16.

Ipswich, which had seen a campaign dominated by lollipop ladies, was a gain for Labour with the Tories losing two seats.

Until now, I have not really been forecasting any gains for Labour but the recent narrowing of the CON - LAB lead is starting to penetrate into Tory territory in the South.

Gains for Labour in London might be somewhat offset by gains for the Conservatives elsewhere.

The Conservatives lose control of two councils in the South East following gains for Labour and a surge in support for UKIP in the local elections.

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.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

The issue stems, in part, from year - old changes to Canada's express entry system which makes it impossible for someone in the PGWPP program to gain express entry without a Labour Market Impact Assessment, as chronicled by Nicholas Keung:

$ 2.7 billion over six years for labour market transfer agreements with the provinces and territories to modernize training and job supports, to help those looking for work to upgrade skills, gain experience, start a business or get employment counselling.

Despite the weakness in manufacturing payrolls (a loss of 36,000 jobs in goods - producing sectors in May) that accompanies this secular shift, labour market tightness has allowed for some moderate wage gains and further declines in the unemployment rate, beyond the influence of the declining participation rate.

He might be eager to work for $ 12 / hour to gain the experience / training he needs to increase the value of his labour, but the government says: «No; you will either get paid $ 15 / hour or you will be unemployed».

Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, has tabled an Early Day Motion (used by MPs to publicise a particular cause and to gain support in the Commons) calling on the government to remove vulnerable road users from the reforms.

The relationship between IV fluids during labour and newborn weight loss is rarely factored in, and lack of breast milk is often seen as the culprit for poor weight gain.

And if the reason is to stimulate bowl movement... some women are already worried about passing a bowl movement during labour... Raspberry leaf tea is not intended to induce labour, it's for the conditioning of the uterus before and after birth, it simply helps it retract and gain it's health.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

«Under First Past the Post this would likely be disastrous for them, splitting the Labour vote and allowing the Conservatives or UKIP, or whoever, to gain more seats from them.

Well said giro, if the Labour Party wholeheartedly supported the referendum and introduced an amendment to add the option for AV + or STV, they would gain greatly from a strategic perspective: 1) It would put them firmly into the spotlight as the progressive party.

Polls are now consistently showing a lead for Remain, and psephologists are clear that Labour stands to gain the most from a soft Brexit (or no - Brexit) position.

Nuneaton is the first big Labour target which needed just over a 2 % swing for Labour to gain it.

Labour have gained Plymouth, and shifted Trafford from Tory to no overall control, but it's looking like a pretty underwhelming night for them overall.

The Hackney North MP also made it clear that Team Corbyn think there is much to be gained from making Smith's lobbying background a key factor in the fight for Labour's future.

For the big gains required to deliver the keys to Number 10 the Labour Party must recover voters from the Conservatives (11.3 m total last May) and Ukip (3.9 m).

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

I must admit, it stretches incredulity that Labour should get all worked up about a politician «lying» - this is not to defend Hague from what he may or may not have done, but to point out that there is an (ever - present) case of Pot Kettle Black here, for which reason the narrative is unlikely to gain much traction beyond titillating SW1 and its acolytes.

Mrs May will be hoping that she can compensate for these electoral risks with large Conservative gains against an exceptionally weak Labour Party.

Copeland also represents the largest increase in a byelection vote for the governing party since Labour gained Hull North in 1966.

I watched us beating the Tories by 3 or 4 points on local and European election nights, and poured scorn on the psephologists who said the gains weren't really enough for Labour to hope to win.

All three sources on average each suggest that net gains for the Conservatives will largely be at the expense of Labour and the SNP, with tallies for other parties little changed from 2015.

For, judging by this year's local election results, Labour is now in dire straits in his own seat, Norwich South — while the Green Party is in pole position to gain the seat.

Regular readers will recall that the Magic Number — the difference between the number of Conservative and Labour seats in the House of Commons, and therefore the combined number of net Tory losses and net Labour gains needed for the parties to have the same number of MPs after the next election — is 46.

Under First Past the Post this would likely be disastrous for them, splitting the Labour vote and allowing the Conservatives (or UKIP, or whoever) to gain more seats from them.

Labour will expect to make gains, but with all seats up for election the result in Britain's second city is worth watching.

Historically, on a good election night for the Tories, the Liberals always do badly — Clegg's only chance of gaining seats will be from Labour in the North because he will certainly lose seats to the Tories in the South.

By implication the geography of local election voting must be doing a lot of work to dampen the scale of gains and losses for the Conservatives and Labour parties in the Rallings and Thrasher projection.

On the other hand, if the Scottish government fails to achieve this or gain enough support for a second independence referendum, Labour could claim to have a credible alternative that voters can support in a Scottish election.

They were partly compensated for by gains of 6 seats from Labour, 1 from the Liberal Democrats, 1 from UKIP in England.

[80] The three other defeated candidates for the Labour leadership all stood in the election, though Diane Abbott failed to win enough votes to gain a place.

I'm not sure if these ideas have any traction in the Labour party, but they're gaining increasingly widespread acceptance in the Lib Dems (at least amongst the opinion - forming bloggers, for whom LVT is a common debating point).

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

Just as Tory MPs will now find it easier to hold on in 2015, and for their party colleagues to make gains and push towards an outright majority, so Labour is in a deep fix.

In a night of mixed fortunes for the two major parties, Labour took Plymouth from the Conservatives but was unable to seize Tory «crown jewel» authorities in London, where it had hoped to make gains.

Although it is very clear that the Tories will gain and Labour will lose, I do not take the upper bound for the Conservatives or the lower bound for Labour at all seriously.

Leech's win was hailed as «historic» signifying the first gain for any party in Manchester other than Labour for the first time in six years and provided the city with its first opposition for two years.

While there was growth for all the parties and leaders, it is notable that the performance of Labour and Corbyn considerably outstripped their rivals: the Conservatives, for example, rose 11 %, and Theresa May gained less than 22 %.

The May 2016 elections confirmed again that there is nothing for Labour to gain from a pro-austerity, little Englander, agenda.

Medway Council — Alex Paterson elected for Rochester West — Labour gain from Conservative.

7th February 2016, The Telegraph: Labour civil war: Momentum's «Militant - style» blueprint for gaining influence for Jeremy Corbyn

In calling for the promotion of social mobility, he was joined by Marcus Jones, who gained Nuneaton from Labour:

Practically the entire net gain of 45 seats for the Conservative gains will come from Labour - Leave seats as shown in table P3.