Sentences with phrase «lost in byelections»
They have had some seats they gained in May already lost in byelections.
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The Cumbrian semi-rural seat of Copeland was seized by the Conservatives — the first time the main opposition party has lost a seat it was defending in a byelection since 1982.
In the recent Copeland byelection, Labour reached its electoral nadir under Corbyn, losing a seat that it had held for decades.
And the easy thing in a way would have been to say after the Glasgow East byelection [last week, in which Labour lost its 25th safest seat] we'll all just go away and hunker down.
But will he stand again after losing in the Stoke - on - Trent Central byelection, where his account of being present at the Hillsborough stadium disaster was questioned.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks after his party lost the once - safe seat of Copeland to the Conservatives in a shock byelection defeat.
The biggest majority in Bradford was won by Labour's Imran Hussain in the Toller ward, who lost to Galloway in the Bradford West byelection.
He has previously stood with little success in his home town of Bootle and had a bruising byelection campaign in Stoke - on - Trent, where elements of his CV were questioned and he had to admit that a claim on his website that he lost close friends in the Hillsborough tragedy was wrong.
As the byelection in Stoke was reaching its final days, the group seemed unsure of what to make of questions surrounding Ukip candidate Paul Nuttall's disputed claim to have been at Hillsborough on the day of the 1989 disaster and admission that claims on his website that he had lost close friends there were untrue.