Sentences with phrase «key councils»

However, Curtice, the country's best - known pollster whose general election exit poll accurately predicted last year's shock result, told BI that the Conservatives could pick up control of key councils which backed the Leave vote, in areas such as Basildon, Pendle, and Rugby.
And Shadow cabinet minister Diane Abbott said holding on to key councils in the south of England showed the party does not need to move closer to the centre to gain power.
It is important to realise that projected national share is an extrapolation - based on key council wards - but it does give us some indication of how the parties might do nationally and the parties themselves certainly pay attention to it.
While the two main parties both lost control of key councils outside the capital, Mr Corbyn's party lost Nuneaton and Bedworth - an area of Warwickshire that often indicates the colour of the government at general elections, as well as Derby, with both falling to no overall control.
But in England, Labour retained control of key councils, including Southampton and Crawley, and increased its representation in Exeter.
Having neglected its Asian connections, and allowed its brand to decline over the past decade and a half, Canada now has to earn its way back into the key councils of Asia.
The Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney will be racking up the air miles this week as following on from a key Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday, Minister Coveney departs this morning (Tuesday) for a US trade mission centred in the Chicago area.
The Conservatives lost seats but were relieved to cling on to key councils.
Labour also performed better in the South where it held on to all the key councils it controlled, including Southampton, Crawley, and Hastings.
Nevertheless, it was a mixed picture for the former UKIP vote in key councils.
The Labour leader was condemned over his handling of the anti-Semitism crisis as the Tories seized overall control of the key council.
Clegg was in the firing line after his party lost more than 300 council seats and ceded control of two key councils — Kingston - upon - Thames (to the Conservatives) and Portsmouth.
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