Sentences with phrase «marginal seats switch»
FPTP is meant to function so that there are two sets of safe seats for each of the main parties — and as the pendulum swings from one party to another, the marginal seats switch from one party to another.
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Switching from Labour to UKIP in a Labour marginal, or switching to UKIP from anyone in a safe Labour seat, is clearly not going to make a Miliband premiership morSwitching from Labour to UKIP in a Labour marginal, or switching to UKIP from anyone in a safe Labour seat, is clearly not going to make a Miliband premiership morswitching to UKIP from anyone in a safe Labour seat, is clearly not going to make a Miliband premiership more likely.
One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.