Sentences with phrase «majority at the next election»

Clegg's comments come as a major new poll found that Labour are still on course to a majority at the next election.

At the time of writing, the odds offered by William Hill on no overall majority at the next election are 9/4.

If we want real electoral reform, we need to prevent a Tory majority at the next election.

Grant Shapps tells Patrick Hennessy that there's a 50 % chance of the Tories winning a majority at the next election - The Sunday Telegraph

«The Tories are trying to play politics with the speakership because they know they won't win a majority at the next election.»

Meanwhile, Cameron said he would not rule out asking Lib Dems to join a Tory government if they were to win a majority at the next election.

But to get an overall majority at the next election, the Tory vote is going to have to do more than just hold firm.

The Majority section is an important new commitment to explore how the Conservative Party can win a governing majority at the next election.

Project Blueprint, launched in May 2011, aimed to examine the state of the Conservative voting coalition and to help identify what the party needed to do to achieve an overall majority at the next election.

Welcome to this new section of ConservativeHome - FutureConservatism.com - where I'll be setting out the kind of electoral manifesto and machine that can help give David Cameron a majority at the next election.

You may therefore have missed Paul Goodman's four reasons why Cameron couldn't win a majority at the next election.

«I was told it was always a bad idea to answer hypothetical questions...» A chuckle from the audience opened the door for a more direct continuation in which Gove assured the crowd of his faith that the Conservative Party would win an outright majority at the next election, hence he was «absolutely confident that the situation need not arise.»

As a result, neither party looks like they'll be winning a majority at the next election.

Analysts say the spread could see the Conservatives claim a 100 - seat majority at the next election, although electoral commentators maintain a hung parliament is the most likely result of a Labour defeat.

«If we get a Conservative majority at the next election then Anglesey is going to be very well placed if they've got a Conservative MP,» he suggests.

New polling suggests Labour's lead over the Conservatives is dwindling, raising the prospect of a possible Conservative majority at the next election.

«We're all hoping we're going to get an overall majority at the next election.

Ensuring an anti-Tory majority at the next election is more important than shortening the life of the Coalition, and stopping the Cuts and the attack on the NHS.

The redrawn boundaries are seen as vital to the Tories securing an overall majority at the next election.

Imagine that Labour comes close to winning a majority at the next election but fall just short, as the Tories did in 2010.

Meanwhile, an opinion poll commissioned by former Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft in the 40 most marginal Tory - held seats suggests that Labour remains on course for a comfortable overall majority at the next election — not because the party itself is gaining ground, but because Ukip has tripled its share of the vote, mainly at the expense of the Conservatives.

Labour's chances of winning an outright majority at the next election — or even of forming part of a coalition — now seem to depend on an heroic effort from core supporters in its heartlands.

Labour might lose their majority at the next election but it's going to be difficult for the Conservatives to gain a majority of their own unless they (we) can start winning a lot of the seats currently held by the Liberal Democrats.

Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, also rejected suggestions there were any «wobbles» over Ed Miliband's leadership, as party officials insisted the key lesson from Thursday's byelections was that David Cameron no longer has a strategy to win a majority at the next election.

His remarks, before the critical by - election for the coalition partners, reflect Conservative concern that the main route to an overall majority at the next election will be blocked if Tories can not capture a string of Liberal Democrat seats.»

In a recording of a lecture at Newcastle University, published today, Curtice pointed out that Labour would need a 12.5 % lead over the Conservatives just to get a majority at the next election if support for the Scottish nationalists stayed the same.

Britain's most respected opinion pollster has warned Labour its chances of winning a majority at the next election verge on the «improbable» and that blaming its defeat on a shift away from Blairism is «wholly inadequate».

If the Conservatives win a majority at the next election, all under - 25s will lose the right to housing benefit.

Keir you may be right but i would not be surprised to see a small Labour Majority at the next election.

Cllr Andrew, a fundraiser for a children's hospice, will need to overturn Paul Truswell's 4,751 projected majority at the next election.

The latest - entitled Project Blueprint - sets out to examine what the Conservative Party needs to do in order to win a majority at the next election.

He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: «What I have done following Michael Howard's election is to pledge a # 2m fighting fund to go directly into the marginals, into the constituencies that we have to win in order to significantly reduce [Labour's] majority at the next election or even go for the win.»

That would make it even harder for the party to overturn the Conservative majority at the next election.

He knows that while Conservative MPs enter summer recess in buoyant mood, a majority at the next election is still a pipe dream.

YAAI'd be happy to take a big bet with you that Labour lose their majority at the next election As I have said before - I dissaprove of gambling and don't take part in raffles, lotteries or any kind of gambling irrespective of the probabilities.

Not exact matches

If Labour are comfortably ahead on this measure then they will be on course for a majority at the next general election.

Now may not be the best time to propose adoption of a nomination vote at Westminster, when the next election seems far away, and both major parties claim they are confident of winning an overall majority.

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

She lost a majority at the last election and will not fight the next one.

And it still depends on fluking a hung Parliament at the next election, with Labour as the largest single party and having enough LibDems to produce a workable majority... and that's before the horse - trading on policies begins.

Andy would have been the best leader we never had last time, he's not right this time, incidentally your choice for Mayor Diane Abbot comes out with her usual nonsense regarding, her 24,000 majority compared to Khans 2,000 majority, When she was first elected in 1987 ′ she had a swing against her, even though, any really after the 1983 election, it would be expected, that a labour politician would have a swing towards them as 1983 was our all time low, and I could be said her swing against her at the time was due to racism, but Paul boeteng stood for the first time, next to her in 1987 ′ he never had a swing against him,

As Peter Kellner shows on page 28, although the Conservatives are at present on course to win a clear majority, the next election may well produce no clear victor; but hung parliaments come in various forms.

Now that we are past the midway point in the parliament — and now that it's clear that the constituency boundaries will not be changing before the next election — I decided it was time for a proper look at the marginal territory where it will be decided who enters 10 Downing Street on 8 May 2015 and whether or not they have an overall majority at their command.

shall be submitted to and decided by the electors of the state; and in case a majority of the electors voting thereon shall decide in favor of a convention for such purpose, the electors of every senate district of the state, as then organized, shall elect three delegates at the next ensuing general election, and the electors of the state voting at the same election shall elect fifteen delegates - at - large.

From this, the BBC reported an estimate of national vote share of 31 % for the Conservatives, 38 % for Labour and 16 % for the Liberal Democrats, meaning that if these results were replicated at the next general election, Labour would win an 83 seat majority.

The benefits of maintaining stability to safeguard the remaining years in power slowly diminish as the case for the alternative - attacking one's coalition colleagues in a bid to win an overall majority at the next general election - becomes more and more compelling.

Support for the Conservatives is finally high enough to suggest the party could win an outright majority at the next general election, according to a new poll.

And fully aware that no party since the 1920s has gone from losing office to a working majority at the next general election.

Labour currently holds the seat with a near 9,000 majority vote and would be likely to retain it at the forthcoming election, with a resignation now ahead of a national poll preferable to a departure mid-way through the next parliament when Purnell's move would have triggered a byelection, more high profile and potentially more perilous for the party.

I very much hope that he or she will go on to secure a healthy majority at the next general election and play a full part in a David Cameron led Conservative Government.