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London's popular mayor featured on many more Labour campaign leaflets than Jeremy Corbyn.

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Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

Arsenal pulled together a run of five wins at the end of the season but have laboured far more this campaign.

More recently, Labour MP Andy Burnham characterised the ethos of Britain Stronger In Europe, the official campaign to keep Britain in the EU, as «too much Hampstead and not enough Hull», lamenting the group's inability to appeal to voters in Labour's traditional heartlands.

«In some places that did benefit Labour right at the end of the campaign,» Horwood muses, «but perhaps in Cheltenham it benefited us more than anybody else».

From the 1970s, Harriet campaigned for increased women's representation in the Labour Party - more women Labour councillors, more women Labour MPs and for a Labour leadership team of three of which at least one should be a woman.

To be fair, the Labour campaign was not much more inspiring.

It has just secured full funding, and has commissioned a tranch of new, (and one trusts more robust), polling from the Campaign Company run by former Labour advisor Nick Pecorelli.

Taking all these factors together - regional variations, over-statement of the Labour vote and more vigorous campaigning in target seats - and we would expect a modest Conservative majority of 30 to 50.

Underwhelming local results cast doubt on the Labour leader's prospects, but he performs more strongly in general election campaigns.

The Labour leadership contenders are spending more on their campaigns than the Green Party spent nationally in the general election.

In a speech launching Labour's local and European elections campaign, Miliband outlined his proposals to set up three - year tenancy agreements, introduce a ceiling on rent increases and build 200,000 more homes per year.

While Mr Miliband stressed that the current Labour leader was «criss - crossing the country» throwing his weight behind the Remain campaign, he conceeded that «we all need to do more» and that the June 23 referendum is «even more important than the General Election».

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

Although his performance during the election campaign improved voter perceptions somewhat, he still lagged way behind David Cameron, who, unlike the Labour leader, is more popular than his party.

Even if Cameron wins the referendum following a negotiation that brings little immediate practical change there will be calls for more reforms from those that lost and perhaps from a Labour leadership that campaigned reluctantly to stay in.

After a summer in which he plans to maintain election fitness with yet more rallies and campaigning, Jeremy Corbyn will be greeted like a hero by his adoring fans at Labour's conference in Brighton.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Watch: the extraordinary moment when The Labour Party campaign chief Douglas Alexander realised he'd lost his seat to Scottish National Party (SNP) 20 - year - old politics student Mhairi Black by six thousand votes.Watch more: Douglas Alexander's concession speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7-ZMZeR6a4

We polled a thousand votes more than Labour in the recent Euro elections in the South West seat and are campaigning hard to go one better at the forthcoming Westminster election.

At Labour's national executive yesterday, Ed Miliband failed to deliver on his leadership campaign promise to give members more say in policy making.

More to this, the campaign of Jeremy Corbyn has energised socialists in Labour, and we must use this as a chance to organise.

Once you have done your own little bit, as you have done for months now, to damage the Corbyn campaign, by your constant nitpicking of his competence and leadership skills and policy development shortcomings, and regular defence of the «soft Left» who have so blatantly failed to support him all year, from a supposed position on the Left (so much more effective in the current battle for the dominant narrative than criticism coming openly from the Labour right), will you too finally, (sorrowfully and with much hand - wringing») declare for Owen Smith at the opening of voting, David?

Table 1 shows the dramatic growth in Facebook likes for Jeremy Corbyn, up by more than 35 %, and the Labour Party, up 71 %, during the short campaign.

She began her campaign by winning gushing plaudits from right - wing papers and is set to finish it with the support of little more than one in ten Labour supporters.

Pollsters say Labour supporters need to back AV by more than two to one if the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign is to emerge on top.

He revealed that the leadership bid had employed a campaigning system modelled on that employed by the Labour party, but given more freedom to its activists.

The useless official campaign run by Johnson was a key cause of the failure to pull out more Labour votes, although as election guru John Curtice has told us Labour actually did quite well here.

During the election campaign we found ourselves more angry than ever about Labour's record of waste and economic failure.

... More than Ken Livingstone's disastrous campaign, this hypocrisy, this abject political cowardice by Labour's senior political figures will be the real travesty.»

[109] The Labour Party held a leadership election, in which Jeremy Corbyn, then a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, [110] was considered a fringe hopeful when the contest began, receiving nominations from just 36 MPs, one more than the minimum required to stand, and the support of just 16 MPs.

«Richard Harrington: How the Watford Conservatives» innovative summer work experience programme has been mutually beneficial both for my campaign and for more than fifty local youngsters Main Hartlepool Conservatives select Alan Wright to take on Labour MP Iain Wright»

Moving with a clarity that poses a campaign challenge to Labour, David Cameron on Tuesday pointed the Conservative party in a more markedly Eurosceptic direction than ever before in his pre-election reshuffle.

But Mr Blair may well feel less well disposed to a more distant Liberal Democrat who is likely to make his mark in the leadership campaign with swingeing attacks on Labour.

The party has decided to scale back its campaign against the Lib Dems and instead aggressively target up to 20 more Labour seats.

Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrat leadership campaign gathered more momentum yesterday after Don Foster, the only other candidate in favour of the party's continued cooperation with Labour, stood down from the contest.

Personal taxation is traditionally a thorny area for Labour - witness the 1992 «Tory tax bombshell» that helped sink Neil Kinnock's campaign - but this time it's caused more problems for the Conservatives.

I would campaign for a red - yellow deal including electoral reform and an agreed manifesto, were it possible, both now and (perhaps more realistically) in the event of a hung parliament, and for Labour to have a manifesto which did not contain coalition red lines for the LibDems, as that would.

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.

Labour's Scottish election campaign has been buoyed by more than 150 business leaders speaking out in favour of the union.

She added: «I'm confident more people will sign up and get involved in the Labour party and get out campaigning.»

Anti-austerity and leadership dominated the 2017 campaign, with Labour's manifesto tapping into a widely felt desire for change, promising more spending on public services, the NHS, and education.

It is now widely accepted that nothing has damaged the Labour party in Scotland more than their role in the independence referendum campaign.

Owen Smith's campaign team has appealed to Momentum to get Jeremy Corbyn to agree to more debates as part of the Labour leadership election.

Joining a wave of internal criticism of Ed Miliband's campaign, he said Labour had allowed the Tories to appear «more serious than us about spreading wealth across the country.

James Morris, who worked for Labour from when Ed Miliband was elected leader in 2010 until the election, said public polling showed a much more favourable position than the party's internal data, both in the run - up to and during the campaign.

While Labour's leadership contest has been attracting more headlines, the two Lib Dem leadership candidates have attended 25 hustings, more than 100 campaign events and covered about 20,000 miles between them.

On economic competence, Labour's lead is down to 8 points compared to 22 points at the general election and, perhaps surprisingly given the Conservative party is in the midst of a leadership campaign, while both parties are seen as divided, more people think Labour is divided than the Tories (70 % compared to 58 %).

In contrast to Kashif Ali's positive campaign, Labour are misleading voters about public spending and, more specifically, police budget cuts in this by - election.