Sentences with phrase «inner city seats»

Squeezed by the Tories in their south west London heartlands and by Labour in their inner city seats, the Lib Dems were left with just one London MP; punished, they believe, for their role in the coalition government.

He says Labour could win back a swathe of Lib Dem inner city seats, including Birmingham Yardley, Bradford East and Brent Central.

Elected as MP for Bermondsey in a famous byelection in 1983 which saw the end of the conventional political career of the Labour candidate Peter Tatchell and has held the inner city seat ever since.

Politics: Demographically you would expect this seat to return a Labour MP: a poverty striken inner city seat, over 20 % afro - carribean, over 40 % of properties council owned.

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But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

Also with AV we've seen the rise of the Greens challenging Labor in some inner - city seats (helped by preferences from the conservative Liberal Party).

Labour gains an advantage to begin with from its seats in the inner cities and industrial areas with declining populations and lower turnouts.

If the Liberal vote does re-bound in 2013, the inner - city seats of Adelaide (ALP 7.5 %) and Hindmarsh (ALP 6.1 %) are the key seats to watch.

Many of the Lib Dems» ethnic minority councillors represent inner - city seats where Labour is the main challenger, and therefore they are in danger of losing.

Labor's most marginal seats going into the 2013 election are inner - city Hindmarsh (ALP 6.1 %) and Adelaide (ALP 7.5 %).

Profile: A seat in the far south of London that has more in common with residential Surrey than the inner city.

Wire Side Chat: Reporter Reflects on Year as a Teacher «I've come to think that only a radical change can address the deep - seated problems in our poor, inner city schools,» says Christina Asquith, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter who spent a year teaching in a Philadelphia middle school.

The seven - seat Audi Q7 e-tron promises an astonishing combined fuel range (1400 km), silent inner - city running and seamless diesel - electric operation.

According to Michael Cooney from the Labor thinktank the Chifley Research Centre and Ben Oquist from the Australia Institute, Labor and the Greens have attacked each other because nearly every inner - city seat the Greens have a chance of winning for the first time are Labor - held.

In contrast to the 2013 election campaign, the Tele even had a pro-Labor story «Save Our Albo» over the Greens» challenge to Anthony Albanese's inner - city seat of Grayndler.