Sentences with phrase «in safe seats rather»

Under the first past the post electoral system, many Labour votes were «wasted» as part of large majorities for MPs in safe seats rather than into holding onto marginal seats.

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It is safest to put the car safety seat in a position where you can install it tightly with either the lower anchor system or seat belt; in some cases, this may be on either side of the back seat rather than the middle.
In a similar vein, this election also saw MP Steve Rotheram — Jeremy Corbyn's parliamentary private secretary and occupant of the ultra safe seat of Liverpool Walton — decide he would rather be Merseyside's mayor.
And where we did achieve swings against the Tories, these were in safe Labour seats, rather than in the target marginals, in which we worked so hard.»
You have implied that you are only interested in fighting safe Conservative seats, rather than marginal seats.
However, faced with the need to restrain a booster - age child in a lap belt - only seating position, real - world crash data from two large crash databases suggest that it is safer to place the child in a booster secured with the lap belt rather than using the lap belt alone.
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