Sentences with phrase «in key marginal seats»

«The UKIP threat is draining Tory support in key marginal seats so much that the party could let Ed Miliband into Downing Street, according to a poll released today by Lord Ashcroft, former deputy chairman of the Conservative party.

Following the negative reaction to his visit to British troops in Iraq during the 2007 Conservative Party Conference, [111] an unrehearsed conference speech made by David Cameron and an opinion poll showing Labour 6 % behind the Conservative Party in key marginal seats, Brown announced that there would be no election in the near future.

This is a swing of 6 points (the equivalent of a Labour lead of about 5 points in a national poll), so suggests Labour may be doing somewhat better in key marginal seats than in the country as a whole.

He was concerned the billionaire's money was being used to boost Conservative candidates» chances in key marginal seats in the forthcoming election.

In particular, it has helped the Conservatives to contain the salience of European policy in the 2015 general elections and to reduce the appeal of UKIP in key marginal seats.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

Their most alarming discovery was that Labour were underperforming in key marginal seats.

Initially, he concentrated his research in these key marginal seats but then, as his fascination with polling grew, he decided to conduct a vast poll of 10,000 voters (the usual size is 1,500 people) in order to produce the biggest ever poll in the UK on political attitudes.

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They might secure only a handful of MPs (thanks to a voting system that many believe is increasingly out of date) but their surging popularity could still disrupt Tory and Labour battles in key marginal seats.

Tory HQ sources had been quietly confident that their superior organisation in the key marginal seats was going to secure them a victory, and they felt their vote stabilised in the past week, especially after Cameron turned in a strong performance in the final TV debate.

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.

Yes, Boris has been loyally out and about in the capital, showing a famous face in those key marginal seats.

Not only significant numbers from ethnic communities, but also many Middle England electors in key marginal seats, who conclude that the Conservative Party is simply irrelevant to the challenges facing the modern world as they see and live it.

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

They kept the Tories in check in key marginal seats and comfortably won the two Westminster by - elections.

After yesterday's Channel 4 News poll showing plummeting Conservative support in key marginal seats, leading Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle emails colleagues to describe his «despair» at his party's election campaign.

Warehouses of telephone pollsters were put to work for a year before the election, their task to track the views of undecided voters in key marginal seats.

Labour ministers have been accused of using regional Cabinet meetings to help the party in key marginal seats.

We find that Conservative support is holding up better in its key marginal seats than the rest of the country, and also that the Liberal Democrats are recovering strongly, albeit from a low base, in the seats they are defending.

After last night's Channel 4 News poll showing plummeting Tory support in key marginal seats, he sent out an email entitled «Musings of a Tory in despair».

In the key marginal seats, every leaflet posted through every door and every phone call to every floating voter could make a difference.

The analysis concludes that the party has piled up votes in parts of the country where it would make little difference in a general election, while losing support in key marginal seats.

David Cameron is seen as a better Prime Minister than Ed Miliband among voters in key marginal seats, according to a new ITV News / ComRes poll.