Sentences with phrase «key marginal seats»

And which ones are the most key marginal seats?

Tonight a new poll in those same 60 key marginal seats reveals a dramatically different outlook.

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

Recent polling of key marginal seats by Lord Ashcroft found that Cameron's party can afford to lose no more than 21 seats to Labour in order to remain the largest party in parliament.

[10][11] He was also a target of the strategy led by Lord Ashcroft to concentrate resources on key marginal seats which saw # 50,000 donated to the Conservative campaign to unseat him.

The concentration on key marginal seats over the last decade has polarised the Victorian political landscape.

It is not possible to form a Labour government by winning key marginal seats where aspirational voters predominate unless core voters turn out,» he writes.

19th July 2017, Labour List: We mustn't hang about: party to pick 75 candidates for key marginal seats this year

Perfectly logical then that Conservatives should target key marginal seats in Birmingham, birthplace of Nick Timothy, one of the two brains that make up Team May.

During the 2015 campaign, our Hot seats series saw Conversation authors report from key marginal seats around the UK.

It is not possible to form a Labour government by winning key marginal seats where aspirational voters predominate unless core voters turn out.

The Tories adopted a policy of defending key marginal seats against Labour and UKIP and attacking in Liberal Democrat 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.

A fleet of coaches was used by the party to parachute dozens of volunteer activists into 29 key marginal seats across the country, putting them up in hotels, and visiting one constituency each day, in the final 10 days before the vote.

Conservative backbenchers were expressing fears on Saturday that Ukip — which leapfrogged the Conservatives into second place in Thursday's Eastleigh byelection — represents a serious threat to their support not just in the south of England but also in the north, where the Tories face a struggle to defend a number of key marginal seats at the 2015 general election.

The M1 runs through the middle of the region, linking several key marginal seats.

How can it be right that the electoral battleground is fought in 100 key marginal seats which swing at each election and decide the colour of the government?

Funding targeting key marginal seats is being provided by one of the Conservatives» shadiest sources of cash, as the debate about party funding continues.

I had undertaken an analysis of the potential impact of the issue on key marginal seats and sent the findings to the Chairman of the Tory Party.

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

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.

Although gaining 22 seats, Labour lost all but one of its MPs in Scotland and ended up with a net loss of 26 seats, failing to win a number of key marginal seats that it had expected to win comfortably.

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

Dobell is more at risk for Labor than its 5.1 % margin suggests, while Robertson remains a key marginal seat by any measure.

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.

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».

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.

Key marginal seats, UK big names, Tory and Labour target constituencies - they're all here in our summary of the most exciting ones to watch on election night 2017

Both the main parties could count on winning hundreds of safe seats each and the electoral battle would be won or lost in a smaller number of key marginal seats.

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.

The Labour parliamentary candidate for a key marginal seat was arrested after crashing into a roundabout on Monday.

Labour campaigners hope pointing to «Tory cuts» in Conservative - run local authorities will help their defence of key marginal seats.

Lord Ashcroft has repeated the same sort of large marginals poll that PoliticsHome did in 2008 and 2009, looking at the clusters of key marginal seats that will provide the battleground for the next general election.

> Yesterday's Seats and candidates: Another Labour minister in a key marginal seat opts to quit at the general election

The Conservative party has seen its lead cut to just two points in 60 key marginal seats, in an exclusive Channel 4 News / YouGov poll released today which shows we could be heading for a hung parliament.

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.

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.

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.

BBC Wales Political Editor Nick Servini has been to the key marginal seat of the Vale of Glamorgan to find out.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Mandy Richards was chosen by local activists to fight the key marginal seat of Worcester in the next election - but Labour moderates condemned her selection.

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.