Sentences with phrase «landslide majority»

The Conservatives were returned to government, having suffered a net loss of only 21 seats, leaving them with 376 MPs and a second landslide majority of 102.

For most of her premiership, she benefited from a divided Opposition and an electoral system that delivered landslide majorities on a very limited share of the vote.

If she called an early election she might win her own landslide majority, a much more formidable parliamentary context for her bumpy Brexit ride.

Our analysis gives just a 1 % chance of the Conservatives winning a 100 + landslide majority.

A measure recognizing pornography as leading to individual and societal harms was passed by the Virginia State House with a landslide majority of 82 - 8, while Tennessee's Senate Health and Welfare Committee is set to consider a similar resolution next week.

Even with a landslide majority May would have been in a weak position.

The Conservatives gained a landslide majority of 144 against their evenly divided opponents.

The party arrived in office in 1997 with almost no commitments on European issues and with very few MPs (in its landslide majority) with any kind of clear position on Europe.

The Labour Party was most recently in government from 1997 to 2010 under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, during the «New Labour» era, first elected with a landslide majority of 179, reduced to 66 in the 2005 election.

The Labour Party won the 1997 general election with a landslide majority of 179; it was the largest Labour majority ever, and at the time the largest swing to a political party achieved since 1945.

They've been campaigning against us as a national government ever since the tentative rapprochement between Paddy Ashdown and Tony Blair fell apart in the wake of Labour's landslide majority (another thing for which we will never be forgiven).

Thatcher did not face Brexit and ruled with big or landslide majorities.

Tim Farron can also take some credit for challenging and undermining the harsh version of Brexit which failed to secure Theresa May's ambitions for a landslide majority.

A Labour government with anything other than a landslide majority would also struggle to get measures such as Mr Miliband's proposed new 50p top rate of tax through Parliament.

At the time of Boisclair's election, the PQ was as much as 20 percent ahead of the Liberals in opinion polls, suggesting that Boisclair would lead them to a landslide majority government in the next election.

He is after all the foreign secretary that led us into the Iraq war and still won a landslide majority in his Blackburn constituency.

Any kind of Tory majority across the whole UK depends upon a landslide majority of one hundred in England.