Sentences with phrase «up to the election labour»

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It suggested Labour could pick up 51 % of the vote, a positive swing of 5.35 % compared to the last time elections were fought in 2014.

Yet in the weeks leading up to the election, the opposing Labour party has managed to gain an advantage.

The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

The two main political parties — the ruling Labour government and the challenging Conservative Party — are using the Mumsnet.com website as a battleground in the lead - up to the election this spring.

I've spent a long long time in the Labour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thaLabour party, Kinnock was my MP, I had to put up with his idea for a long time, then bang he was new labour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever thalabour mind you never before an election he would then drivel about the left socialism and winning the war what ever that was.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told his MPs to keep campaigning and carry on the momentum the party built up in the general election campaign.

General election 1970Although Labour had established a consistent double - digit poll lead during the run - up to the 1970 general election, Labour and its prime minister Harold Wilson were ousted.

He was re-elected in June 2004, having been re-admitted to Labour in the run - up to the election.

Winning general elections is all about managing expectations — so it really matters that many are quietly deciding the Labour leader is more likely to end up in Downing Street after polling day.

If Labour is going to win the next election it needs credible realistic policies that can stand up to media and public scrutiny.

The Tooting MP tells me that in 2013, in the run - up to the European and councils elections, Labour spoke to a million people in London.

There appears to be no election campaign whatsoever in Greater London and as a result the Tories could lose up to six seats to the Labour Party in our capital city.

Huge resources have been poured into the Tory election campaign, with the party expected to outspend Labour by up to three to one over the coming months.

Were an individual Gloucestershire voter given up to seven votes to distribute as s / he saw fit, it is of course impossible to know whether this would lead to seven Conservative MPs returned (as was the case in the 2015 election), or a mixture of parties (in 2005 the seats were split three Conservative, two Labour and two Liberal Democrat).

That's why the election literature sought to play up the prospects of a three - horse race (Labour, the Conservatives) or vehemently emphasise the close 103 - margin at the top (Lib Dems).

In the run up to the 1997 general election, Labour made courting the City and garnering public support from it an absolute priority.

As soon as anyone suggests that Labour oppose Trident, someone else will pop up to say that opposition to nuclear weapons lost them the 1983 election.

Labour lost the last election because instead of doing what the Tories do - which is whatever they bloody well want to and stick two fingers up at anyone who doesn't share their opinion.

Despite Nick Clegg's suggestion that he is the «heir to Thatcher» in the run - up to the May 2010 General Election, the Liberal Democrats went into the election with a broadly similar economic policy to LElection, the Liberal Democrats went into the election with a broadly similar economic policy to Lelection with a broadly similar economic policy to Labour's.

For all Ed Miliband's talk of restructuring the British economy and creating a responsible capitalism, the party's position on the core issue of the deficit was dangerously muddled: after three years of opposing «austerity», the Labour leadership spentthe run - up to the election trying to minimise its differences with the government.

A general election now would probably see the Tory majority chipped away at, but Labour only able to govern in coalition with other progressive parties, in such an unstable formulation that it couldn't hold for long, if they could even set it up in the first place.

I am about to put up a blog post at http://www.barder.com/ephems/ suggesting the outline of Labour's best line to take with the LibDems after the election has produced a hung parliament, if it does, and before parliament meets, while Brown and other Labour ministers sit tight, refusing to yield to the unconstitutional clamour for their resignation.

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

In the run up to the Stoke by - election, the group published a poll putting Ukip's Paul Nuttall ten points ahead of Labour's candidate Gareth Snell.

He said he had «absolutely no doubt» that Labour would reverse their opposition to a referendum in the run - up to the European elections next year.

If they cocked this up so badly we need to hear a little less from them in the immediate future about their insights as to how Labour could win a general election, not that many offered much before beyond vague talk of the «centre ground».

Upon Ed Miliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, The Guardian reported that after looking at Policy Network's Southern Discomfort Again pamphlet, he is expected to set up a commission into the so - called «squeezed middle», modelled on the inquiry set up by Joe Biden into the US middle class.

Lord Mandelson, Labour's election strategist, immediately warned in a campaign memo that «voters who flirt with Nick Clegg are likely to end up married to David Cameron».

A forthcoming by - election in the Cumbrian constituency of Copeland is shaping up to become a key test for the Labour Party's electoral prospects under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

Announcing the timetable for the election, Ms Harman said: «Our challenge now is to use this time to listen and learn, to elect a new leader and deputy leader who will rebuild the Labour party in order to take the fight to this Tory government and to stand up for Britain.»

Ms Cooper, who confirmed she would run in a column for the Daily Mirror, said Labour had lost the election because the party did not show voters it «had the answers to match up with their ambitions».

Alex Rowley, Dugdale's deputy, has sought to do this, arguing, for example, that Labour should have campaigned for Home Rule in the run - up to the Holyrood elections in May.

This reminds me just before the last general election a Labour spy was in a private meeting held by a Tory MP talking about the party having to put up taxes if the Tories won the election which went against the party line.

But the failure to deal with this perception allowed it to become entrenched — leaving Labour to play catch - up in the final weeks of the election campaign, with big questions of credibility still hovering over it.

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.

Despite opinion polls leading up to the general election predicting a tight result, Labour decisively lost the 7 May general election to the Conservatives.

Ed Miliband has just delivered his post-European and local elections comeback speech in Thurrock, to show that he's not afraid to confront the challenges that Labour still faces in the run - up to 2015.

The Conservatives tend to pile up large majorities in safe seats and because the planned redistribution of seats did not take place after the 2010 election, Labour has a number of seats with below average electorates, making the vote - to - seat ratio work all the more in its favour.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

opinion polls can change), it would be a disastrous move for the Lib Dems I'd have thought, to be seen propping up a Labour Party which had lost its majority in a General Election.

Labour will expect to make gains, but with all seats up for election the result in Britain's second city is worth watching.

Liberal Democrat progress in local, national and European elections up to 2010 was largely built upon offering a liberal alternative to Labour.

At the end of last year, he was promoted to the management team for Hanover's UK public affairs operation and in May's local elections he successfully ran as a councillor in Milton Keynes, picking up a seat from Labour with a majority of 204.

In the run - up to the elections, many of Labour's initiatives were seen either as gimmicks or wide of the mark.

In yesterday's Scottish local elections, both Labour and the SNP were up and the Tories and Lib Dems were down relative to when they were last run in 2007.

Channel 4 picked up on my research to argue that Labour hasn't done enough to win the next election, whilst the BBC's Nick Robinson wondered whether this election might be more than a case of the usual «mid-term blues» and a signal to an increasingly unpopular government that they will be kicked out at the next election.

Only ten per cent of Labour Party members support Brexit, but up to one - third of people who voted Labour at the last general election want to leave the EU.

Speaking after the ballot count, Labour leader Ed Miliband explained that his party's strategy in the run up to next year's general election is to «focus on the economy and standards of living».

If the party adopts this policy and implements it in government before the election we will be able to show ethnic minority communities that the Liberal Democrats have delivered where Labour messed up.