Sentences with phrase «local labour ward»

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However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

However, there was evidence of Ukip's growing influence across the spectrum in the local elections, where the party averaged 20 % in Conservative - held wards and 25 % in Labour - held wards.

So are we to conclude, that Labour activism must become even more local, with increased focus on ward activities?

«It was laughed out of the chamber,» says Fay Hough, the 30 - year - old Labour candidate for the Rainham & Wennington ward in the upcoming local elections, «because there were no positives.

With Labour expecting to perform badly in May's Scottish, Welsh and local elections, it is counting on success for Sadiq Khan to ward off any leadership challenge to Jeremy Corbyn.

I am a strong grassroots campaigner — in the 1998 local elections Labour held control of the council because we won back a Lib Dem seat by three votes after a relentless campaign in my ward (Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Twigg know the work involved)

In the 1990s the Liberal Democrats enjoyed success at a local level here, but it never translated into Parliamentary strength and following a difficult period of Liberal Democrat - Conservative control of Hackney council they largely collapsed, leaving every council seat in this ward in the hands of Labour.

Presumably if the local labour party had worked the ward in the council elections, there would now be no Lib Dem councillors in this constituency.