Sentences with phrase «marginal seat campaigns»

The majority owner of ConservativeHome, former Tory Treasurer and mastermind of the party's marginal seats campaign will use a review of the general election campaign to criticise the party leadership's decision to agree to election debates and to campaign on the big society theme.

as part of this «contract» Tories made him Deputy Chair and let him fund and mastermind your # 5m marginal seats campaign.»

ConservativeHome has been highlighting the role of the public sector unions as they pour money into Labour's marginal seats campaign and as they also build up a war chest to «unleash hell» on any incoming Tory government.

Not exact matches

Today's Times quotes two Tories in marginal seats, who criticise Cameron for a series of «unforced errors» during the campaign and a failure to «deliver the lift in the national polls that we need».

He was reduced to a role campaigning in marginal seats.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

«For the exit poll seat projections to be right, Labour had to be wiped out in Scotland, the Liberal Democrats would have to be wiped out in their Tory marginals and we would have to done really badly in the English marginals,» the campaign aide recalled.

For more marginal seats, it is hard to see how Labor's state woes won't infect the federal campaign.

After yesterday's Channel 4 News poll showing plummeting Conservative support in key marginal seats, leading Tory lobbyist Peter Bingle emails colleagues to describe his «despair» at his party's election campaign.

«CCHQ approves strong immigration message for campaigning in marginal seats Main The pre-election «ground war» is being won by the Conservatives»

Party volunteers up and down the country (and especially in marginal seats) are pounding the streets campaigning on their party's behalf.

The Business Council of Australia, the lobby group representing the nation's largest companies, is now spending big on political campaigning and is targeting marginal seats.

But my fervent belief is that London's best hope for a better future is a Labour Government, so all of my campaigning energy is directed towards helping our Labour candidates in marginal seats win in 2015.

So a relatively large and professional central and regional campaign team ensures direct mail, leaflets, staff and so on is all targeted on the marginal seats.

I suspect that not more than one quarter of the money from CCHQ (5 % of our total campaign spend in marginal seats) is funded by Lord Ashcroft.

Fighting any marginal seat is difficult but Jim's elevation to the Cabinet provides a new set of challenges, not least of which is the amount of money the Labour Party are pumping into his campaign for re-election.

In previous contests, they could and did finesse their resource problems by focusing their local campaign efforts in a relatively few marginal seats.

It is difficult to prove that the battlebus campaign was the factor that swung the last election in the Conservatives» favour, although it was specifically targeting marginal and swing seats, and clearly the Tories saw it as a key campaigning tool.

[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.

Later in the campaign Populus asked Lib Dem supporters in 12 Lab / Con marginal seats how would would vote, bearing in mind that their seat was likely to be a close race between Labour and the Conservatives; in nearly every seat Lib Dem supporters were as likely to vote tactically against Labour as they were against the Conservatives.

In October 2008, the Electoral Commission cleared the Conservative Party of breaking electoral law by using an MIC - funded company, Coleshill Campaigning Services (aka Constituency Campaigning Services), as a front to provide millions of pounds of services to Tories fighting marginal seats.

In short, the Lib Dems could pick up the odd seat here and there - but to make a meaningful dent on the Conservatives, who themselves will be eyeing up dozens of marginal Labour seats, would probably require a campaign based on far more than just opposing Brexit.

Prior to setting up his own communications business, he was on the Conservative Party's professional staff working for Ministers and high - profile back bench MPs, where he masterminded and devised a number of community campaigns which saw the Conservative Party holding to a number of highly marginal seats.

At the weekend they upped the ante with Alan Partridge's alter ego not only starring in an ad, but also hitting the campaign trail in a number of marginal seats with Labour MP Tom Watson.

«Internet campaigning will never replace personal interaction; knocking on doors and leafleting is still where the battles will be won and lost - particularly in marginal seats,» Smith says.

As a Labour analysis shows a fall in membership in Tory associations in the most marginal parliamentary seats, De Piero is to launch a campaign to sign up supporters who are normally disengaged from politics.

It is a three - way fight in a marginal seat caused by the ousting of the former Labour MP Phil Woolas, who was found guilty by an election court of lying about his Liberal Democrat opponent in campaign literature.

In the 2017 general election campaign, he was secretly recorded suggesting that Lib Dem voters should consider backing Labour's Rupa Huq in her then marginal seat of Ealing Central and Acton.

«Campaign teams will be sent to work relentlessly in a range of marginal seats which Tories now feel are within their grasp.»

Not sure, if this is undetAnd, labour spent more than the Tories in 2005 75 % of labours spending in 1997 came from the private side, and recall 1979 when the closed shop meant everyone had to joina Union, that union had to give money to the labour party, we knew the next election would be the most vicious since 1992 ′ we win the campaign, lost the election that time, The Tory press isn't as strong as it was then, the tories haven't got lost of «extremist» stories about labour they had thrn to smear us now, They're a smaller party not just cos of Ukip, But labour has a lot of keen strong members, and it'll come doen to 70 or so marginal seats what happens, while not losing our working class votes in Newcastle, birmingham Luton Rotherham, Scotland, and if they're not abstaining, or voting Ukip, we have to ask why they're voting tory

In an email to local party members she said: «After 22 years of campaigning and 20 years of having had the privilege of being the MP for this diverse, forever surprising and wonderful marginal seat I know when it is time to stand down and pass on the baton.

Over the course of the last month, the voluntary party's tour of marginal seats has clocked up campaign visits to no fewer than 72 constituencies across England, from St Ives in the South West to Tynemouth in the North East.

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.

The Liberal Party appears to have engaged in «sandbagging», concentrating its campaign on keeping the rising Labor electoral flood out of its marginal seats of Boothby and Sturt.

The Liberal Party appeared to shift campaign resources into defending its safer seats, Labor achieving substantial swings to win the marginal seats of Kingston, Makin and Wakefield, but failing to dislodge the Liberal Party in Boothby and Sturt.

I agree & IMO, Farage is looking for a deal where he gets something (I know not what) in return for not mounting much of a 2015 campaign; & he may be expected to / willing to go as far as fielding no UKIP candidates in marginal seats.

In fact the only person to be accorded vox - pop quote status during the radio news highlights: Labour MP Graham Stringer... While «not in a position» to pass judgement on Mr Woolas» conduct during the campaign - in which he was accused of stirring up racial tensions to win votes - Mr Stringer said election battles in marginal seats were not «Sunday - school outings».

Of course, many people would prefer their MP to focus on quietly working for their constituency, and many MPs in marginal seats have to spend much of their time campaigning at home.

They are fighting a ruthless campaign with an unprecedented # 8m funding in the marginal seats alone.

He lost the Dems seats in»08 when operatives from around the state had to leave marginal campaigns to help bail out his struggling campaign.

Since the election, it has been reported that Ashcroft would be writing a damning assessment of the general election campaign, in which he co-funded and managed a campaign for marginal seats.

Today's survey of marginal seats reveals the sort of data usually only seen by campaign strategists deep inside party headquarters.

All of the evidence is that they'll do much, much better in seats that they currently hold and in which they have significant campaigning infrastructure (see Lord Ashcroft's marginal polling and Rob Hayward's reflection on council results).

That to me is the great unknown — it's a good bet UKIP are going to double or triple their national vote share but it might be very uneven, with big votes in safe seats and more modest performances in marginal seats due to a stronger campaign from the other parties.

«That's why we've set up a campaign team, involving leaders from all of your branches, and are developing a marginal seat strategy.