Sentences with phrase «shocking general election defeat»

Jon Cruddas said whoever takes over as leader from Ed Miliband in the wake of a shocking General Election defeat must be prepared for a rethink on what the party is all about.

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Labour's devastating defeat in the general election was shocking in its scale, but in retrospect, the signs were there all along.

A member of the ruling National Democratic Congress Communications team Eric Ametor Quarmyne, has urged party members and sympathizers not to be troubled by the shocking defeat in the just ende December 7 general election.

Thankfully, however, there were no such problems for Alex Salmond, whose defeat to the Conservatives in Gordon provided one of the shocks of the night at the general election.

An MP for over thirty years, his elevation to the peerage was intended to create a vacancy in a safe seat for the Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, who had been defeated in a shock result in the 1964 general election in his Smethwick constituency.