Sentences with phrase «key marginal seats by»

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.

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

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«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.

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

A poll of 100 key marginals by Crosby / Textor is reported in today's Daily Telegraph to show the Conservatives picking up 74 Labour seats but none of the 20 Liberal Democrat seats in the sample.

[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.

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.

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.

Despite losing the seat by just 103 votes at last year's general election and although the Tories are allegedly holding back their campaign at David Cameron's request, Nick Clegg's party trails by 17 points in two separate surveys of voters in the key marginal.

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.

Politics: Loughborough is a key marginal, having been won by the party that received the most seats at every general election since February 1974.

Mandy Richards was chosen by local activists to fight the key marginal seat of Worcester in the next election.

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