Sentences with phrase «gain from labour»

Come to think of it I'm struggling to think of a single seat where the Greens have much to gain from Labour / LD standing aside.

As part of our profiles on key constituencies, Joshua Townsley says that Chester looks almost certain to be a Conservative Gain from Labour.

According to YouGov's Anthony Wells, it is number one on the list of seats the Tories are hoping to gain from Labour in June.

He said it would be a «brave council leader» that did not take on the powers it would gain from a Labour government to build houses, while parents had their grown - up children «sofa surfing» in the family home.

UKIP will not be clobbered as much as some feel (or even hope) but will lose 4 seats, the SNP will gain a seat from Labour and the BNP will gain from both Labour and the Tories.

The Conservative party chairman said:» Labour should be very worried that in a week when Gordon Brown has dominated the news, the Conservatives have made a crucial gain from Labour in the north and achieved a swing in three marginal seats which would mean three strong Conservative gains in a general election.»

The last Conservative gain from Labour at a by - election before their 1979 general election victory was in Ilford North (1978).

Under proposals by the Welsh Boundary Commission, three Conservative seats will be abolished, one will be lost, and two would be gained from Labour.

Among the seats the SNP gained from Labour, Strathkelvin and Bearsden saw a 20 % swing towards the nationalists, Paisley saw a swing of 13 % in their favour and Linlithgow registered an 11 % swing towards the SNP.

Worryingly, only two of these, Jenny Willott and Lynne Featherstone, have anything like healthy majorities, and even they will face tough battles defending their 2005 gains from Labour.

Councils to watch out for, for Conservative gains from Labour, include Gravesham, Plymouth, and Lincoln.

The Lib Dems face evisceration in seats they compete with Conservatives for and only gains from Labour offer any prospect of redemption.

The election saw the Liberal Democrats extend their majority through a couple of gains from Labour, with both parties recouping seats where aforementioned defections had taken place.

But after the Clegg surge, those potential gains from the Lib Dems look far less likely, meaning that the Conservatives probably need to make 120 gains from Labour and fight the Lib Dems to a draw, thereby still securing enough seats for an overall majority.

At the start of the campaign he needed probably about 100 gains from Labour and 20 gains from the Lib Dems to get him over the finishing line.

Derbyshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire were gained from Labour.

For example, at the 2005 election Labour held Dunfermline and West Fife but in a February 2006 by - election in the same seat (caused by the death of Rachel Squire), the Liberal Democrats gained it from Labour.

Salmond may well lose his referendum — and again that's not quite so certain as people seem to think — but the gnats will make gains from Labour at the subsequent GE unless Labour has something genuinely worthwhile to offer.

The bad news is that the gains from Labour that the Lib Dems hope will counter-balance any losses to the Conservatives have almost entirely failed to materialise.

Not exact matches

«These are places where the Labour party might gain control from a relatively small swing from the Conservatives,» said Curtice.

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:

According to one of his drinking buddies from the financial sector: «Any measure enacted by fiat that prevents the free exchange of goods, labour and capital seeking economic gain is done at the cost of efficiency.

Alongside this stream of modern philosophic and scientific thought, we have the Christian Church, labouring hard to preserveher inheritance and at last gaining a little in Europe, but mainly because of the bitter fruits already ripening in the communist - atheist countries, not because of any new stirring from within herself.

After that came ten years labouring as a parish priest of Prouille, a period of little success in gaining converts from Catharism, although he founded a small community of nuns who wanted to remain Catholic while living a life of comparable simplicity as they would have had as Cathars.

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.

Far from gaining politically from the «crisis of capitalism», the Labour party has been left utterly disorientated.

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.

Labour made a net gain of just two from the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Democrats collapsed in suburban England and their south - western heartlands as the centre - left vote fragmented and centre - right voters moved over to the Tories.

Ireland's Labour Party is well - placed to gain votes from both Prime Minister Brian Cowen's Fianna Fail and the opposition leader Enda Kenny's Fine Gael.

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.

Other Labour targets including Croydon Central aren't looking good according to those on the ground and the Tories now even fancy their chances of gaining Hampstead and Kilburn from Labour.

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.

In his speech, the former prime minister says: «From now until 10 pm on 23 June, we will not rest and I will not stop explaining why nine million Labour voters have most to gain from remaining in theFrom now until 10 pm on 23 June, we will not rest and I will not stop explaining why nine million Labour voters have most to gain from remaining in thefrom remaining in the EU.

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.

We know that from the 1970s to today, productivity and labour income have decoupled; we have gained productivity without increasing wages, which means that our most important redistribution tool, labour income, has ceased to function.

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).

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.

Labour stands more to gain from seeking a sudden moment where longstanding perceptions shift.

If the SNP government is able to gain new powers from Brexit, it would mean Scottish Labour could more legitimately take some credit.

Even in the suburban and rural areas where Labour was able to gain some traction from 1997 onwards, the last General Election saw a massive swing to the Tories.

This poll suggests Labour would gain from increasing the turnout of young voters.

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.

They were undone, however, by a collapse in the Liberal Democrat vote which meant the party lost more seats to Labour where Labour was the second - placed candidate than they gained directly from the Lib Dems where they were the challengers.

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.

I believe that the BNP will gain a definate one but possibly two seats from labour and the Ukip will be represented by Farage - who will support the tories!!

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.

The anti-EU UK Independence Party led by populist Nigel Farage scored major gains and was leading the opposition Labour party and Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives in early results from Britain, where voting took place last Thursday.

On this basis alone we should expect both Labour and the Lib Dems to lose substantial numbers of council seats while the Conservatives should make gains from their 3 - point recovery.