Sentences with phrase «safe parliamentary seats»

What I really meant was they are no safe parliamentary seats in London until you get to the outskirts seats like Orpington.

Other staffers currently looking for safe parliamentary seats include Greg Beales, his pollster, and Torsten Henricson - Bell, his senior economics adviser.

Not exact matches

Tatton 1997The parliamentary seat of Tatton was one of the safest Tory seats in the country.

In a similar vein, this election also saw MP Steve Rotheram — Jeremy Corbyn's parliamentary private secretary and occupant of the ultra safe seat of Liverpool Walton — decide he would rather be Merseyside's mayor.

A representative survey for CND, seen by the NS, shows that Labour's parliamentary candidates - from traditionally safe seats to unwinnable Conservative strongholds through to some of the most vulnerable of Labour's target seats - are overwhelmingly against maintaining the nuclear deterrent when it comes up for renewal.

75 per cent of Labour's parliamentary candidates oppose renewing Britain's nuclear deterrent - including some in the party's safest seats.

Of course, Unite in Falkirk West and 40 other constituency Labour parties (CLP)-- through recruiting its members to Labour — has been trying to secure its candidates as prospective parliamentary candidates in safe Labour seats for the 2015 general election.

An increasing majority of parliamentary constituencies are safe seats where, barring some freak event, the result is not in doubt.

The Asawase Constituency parliamentary seat which has been a safe seat for National Democratic Congress (NDC) will forever remain the preserve the party, according to the Muntaka who is Member of Parliament (MP) for the area

Any one of the aspiring leaders, or indeed Harriet Harman as acting leader, could have pressed for the referendum to include a further, better, option, perhaps that of STV; but none of them was prepared to do so, not least because going to the Parliamentary Labour party offering a system that would really end safe seats would reduce MP support in the leadership election itself.

Until recently a large proportion of the parliamentary party occupied safe or safe - ish seats.

Safe Labour seats swinging slightly to the SNP a la 1992 wouldn't be totally out of the question I think, even if the referendum doesn't go through - the biggest effect in terms of parliamentary elections I think will be seen at Holyrood, where the SNP might fare badly in the future if they don't manage independence.

The turnout of 18.16 % in the safe Labour seat was reportedly the lowest in a parliamentary by - election since the Second World War.