Sentences with phrase «thumping majority»

If one side ends up with a thumping majority it could pass sweeping rule changes shifting the balance of power between Labour members and MPs.

The government backed down on a programme motion but won a thumping majority at second reading, moving an elected Lords to the next legislative step, or perhaps, steepe — stretching out to the horizon as we enter months of trench warfare.

What is certainly true is that he would not want to plough on if the Tories had won a thumping majority or even a narrow one: he would go immediately, or at least set a date for his departure.

This one went to script: a thumping majority, the Conservatives even more divided than we thought they were, and another step closer to what those on both sides of the debate are viewing as a really momentous reform for British society and British culture.

Sure, the polls currently look like the Tories would win a thumping majority, and it is likely they would.

It appears clear that the Conservatives will not be returned with the kind of thumping majority that May had hoped for.

If the PM has the courage to stop being negative and instead starts being positive I believe that the public will respond and give him a thumping majority on 7th May.

Tony Blair has tried to maintain the coalition of the working and middle classes that has delivered him two thumping majorities.

Not exact matches

In The Lost Majority, Lord Ashcroft draws on his unique research to explain why the thumping victory the Tories expected never happened: what real voters made of the campaign, why Britain refused Theresa May's appeal for a clear mandate to negotiate Brexit, where the party stands after more than a decade of «modernisation» — and the Tories» mammoth task of building a winning coalition when 13 million votes is not enough for victory.