Sentences with phrase «heartland seat»

She was going to take Labour heartland seats everywhere outside the metropolitan cities.

A lot of its leaders were professional politicians parachuted into Northern working - class heartland seats.

The result is a devastating blow to Labour, which has now lost a northern heartland seat in what will invariably be interpreted by political commentators as a sign of things to come.

By 2010, these seats tended to have smaller electorates than Conservative heartland seats.

Or it could be because they are a former special adviser who was «parachuted into a safe Labour heartlands seat during a Blair era by - election».

Blair is a hate - figure for some on the left of the party, and his intervention was viewed as deeply unhelpful by senior Labour figures, who have been trying to toe a careful line on Brexit that alienates neither anxious remainers, nor leave voters in its traditional heartland seats.

Even so, the prospect of losing heartland seats will be a blow to Labour's hopes: every seat they lose in Scotland means another they have to win from the Conservatives in England, while the national polls could not be much narrower.

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

Because losing 100 votes in a closely contested seat is just as bad for a party's total vote count in parliament as losing 100 votes in a heartland seat.

Membership is now higher in the average Tory heartland seat than in the average Labour heartland seat.

Jeremy Corbyn is under further pressure after a humiliating byelection defeat at the hands of the Conservative party in Copeland, a heartland seat dominated by Labour since 1924.