Sentences with phrase «where labour»

On this basis it can be argued that the BNP cost Labour at least 9 seats in 2010: the seats where Labour lost the seat, and the winning margin was less than the margin of the BNP (votes taken from Labour) over UKiP (votes taken from Con / LD): Amber Valley, Bradford East, Burnley, Corby, Dewsbury, Nuneaton, Sherwood, Thurrock, Warwickshire North (7 Conservative gains, 2 Lib Dem).

«This is a repeat of the Brexit effect - the seats where Labour did well were Remain and the seats we did badly were where there was a vote to leave the European Union.»

I tend to agree Corbyn / Momentum have had numerous opportunities to have leftist candidates selected in by - elections but failed to in every case (bar Richmond park where Labour were certain to lose).

The main settlement of Swadlincote is a rather unattractive former mining town where Labour is still popular, but some of the villages are very Tory indeed.

Those leaflets are a window into the comfort zone where Labour has been firmly camped for the last five years.

I read an article somewhere on Islington council bwing a «nursery council» where the labour councillors are often parachuted across the country into marginal / safe seats.

I don't know about consitutency politics in Australia, but Labour in the UK appears to be following some of their counterparts abroad where Labour has become a middle - class, somewhat right of centre, party.

The seat is also very polarised between the southern stone villa suburbs of Colinton, Currie and Balerno which are traditionally solid areas for the Conservatives, the more urban parts of the seat around Fountainbridge where Labour are resilient and the council estates of Wester Hailes and Sighthill which are solidly SNP.

The primary battleground is London - where Labour has been hoping to ride a wave of Remainer anger to seize Tory strongholds like Wandsworth, Westminster and Barnet

It's called «gesture politics» where Labour say they will do things which in reality achieve nothing.

Overall, then, it is clear that things in marginal Conservative seats where Labour are close challengers, things look slightly more uncomfortable for the Tories than in the country as a whole.

All the Lib Dem targets in Chesterfield I would say are similar demographically to the part of Sheffield where Labour recently lost a city council seat to the Lib Dems.

Pepperminttea «Reading is one of those (actually rather common places) where Labour does a lot better locally than they do nationally»

The Greens have made overall gains, including taking two seats off Labour in Sheffield, where the Labour - run council has been engulfed in a row over the felling of thousands of trees.

He committed to touring constituencies where Labour lost seats during his leadership bid to talk those who did not vote for the party as well as supporters.

The very places where Labour are entrenched in local government.

In at least one seat — Canterbury — where Labour won for the first time — Ukip's failure to stand in a constituency where it secured 7,289 votes in 2015 seemed to fuel Labour's 12,000 vote increase.

A better indicator of Jeremy Corbyn's prospects at a general election may come in the Midlands, the east and the south, where Labour will need to pick up seats if he is to get into Downing Street.

Mr Farage said that he had decided to choose Doncaster - where Labour leader Ed Miliband is an MP - to send a message that «we are now parking our tanks on the Labour party's lawn»

In 1983 this was Labour's worst performance in Wales and the only seat where Labour won less than 12.5 % and lost their # 150 deposit.

If one of the clones that currently occupy Shadow Cabinet positions could clearly state where Labour stands on Tax Defence, Welfare, the NHS and a whole raft of important issues I for one would be profoundly thankful.

Because you simply couldn't imagine the current Labour leaders working with a website where Labour supporters took pop - shots at them.

Others wanted proportional representation, to encourage supporters in areas where Labour may poll 20 % but has had no councillors for 30 years.

What's not quite clear to me yet is whether the new boundaries increase or decrease the geographical polarisation that we've seen since 2001 — where Labour have been losing ground in the South of England while gaining vote share in the North of England.

Ed Miliband identified the key areas where Labour would make a difference: the NHS; a recovery which lifted living standards for everyone; the next generation doing better than their parents; immigration and a clear contrast with UKIP; and a stable economy.

As for CLPs nominating him, yes they're all in areas where labour does well already the Midlands inner London, the right of the party being burnt out after 20 years, but it's not the CLPs it's the voters in the street, how many CLPs nominating people, know what their electorate think, as for Dan Hodges, whatever you think of him, can you deny he believes what he says about labour being massacred if corbyn took us into the 2020 election.

I guarantee by the time we get to polling day, there will not be many who don't know where Labour stands.»

The Corbyn surge is impossible to explain without understanding the 2010 - 15 period, where Labour repeatedly failed to oppose the Tories on major cuts.

Common sense alone tells us that marginality should have some effect upon the size of the swing — if there was a 10 % swing at the election, it is unlikely that the Conservatives would actually pick up an extra 10 % of the vote in places like inner - city Glasgow and the Welsh valleys, while there are some home counties constituencies where Labour barely has 10 % to lose.

Insiders familiar with these discussions over the past few weeks describe a scenario where Labour would have to «reset its economic standing with the public» and demonstrate to the SNP that it would not be «wedded to austerity - lite.»

In a current project on parliament's impact on legislation, we found an example where Labour MP Paul Goggins (whose sudden death in January generated heartfelt tributes from all sides of the House) put Cameron on the spot over the effect that the coalition's abolition of the Child Trust Fund would have on children in care.

Cardiff and Edinburgh will demand more and more and all that Gordon Brown can do is waffle on about a shared British identity that only seems to find any resonance in the Unionist outpost of a devolved Northern Ireland where the Labour party is utterly irrelevant.

On the doorstep in Copeland, where Labour has a slim 2,564 majority, there was little enthusiasm to turn out and vote even among loyal Labour voters, the MP said.

In the Essex town, where Labour lost control of the council after a Ukip surge, Miliband is expected to reiterate his admission that his party failed in the past to listen to complaints about uncontrolled immigration from the EU.

As private debate within Labour circles intensifies on the terms of a potential deal with the SNP, Uncut has learned that some of Ed Miliband's closest advisers are plotting to sack Ed Balls in a bid to secure Ed Miliband's tenure in Number 10, in the event of a hung parliament where Labour is not the largest party.

This was an election where Labour was too slow to realise that working class memories of what a Tory government is like were strong.

The Conservatives were expected to remain in control of the council and were targeting the wards of Scott and Wrightington where Labour only had small majorities.

Then the 2015 election became the first where Labour featured the tightening of immigration controls as one of its top five pledges — with pledge cards and campaign mugs to underline the commitment.

Meanwhile, Seema Kennedy has been chosen to stand in Ashton - under - Lyne, where Labour MP David Heyes will defend a notional majority of 13,199.

Privately, Labour backers of AV fear that the desire among the party's supporters to punish Mr Clegg may trump Mr Miliband's plea — especially in the North, where Labour and the Liberal Democrats go head - to - head in council elections on the same day.

It needs someone to act as a bridge between where Labour is now under Jeremy Corbyn and where it needs to be to ever win again, (sans Scotland, in all probability).

In Wales and the Midlands, where Labour trails the Tories by 27 points to 44, we'd see a repeat of what happened in Scotland last year.

Here's more on the Cambridge, where Labour took control of a council that was previously under no overall control.

Much as I like his effect on the internal manouvres of Labour I suspect that Corbyn's idea of a Federal republic is one where the Labour party rules the roost in every province.

After May we get The Referendum, where both Labour & Tories will be on both sides.

But one insider said that people listening on Monday will have no doubt where Labour is headed: That a customs union is the preferred option.

My colleague Rob Booth has sent me this from Croydon, where Labour have taken the the council from the Conservatives.

Gareth Snell was selected to stand in the seat, where Labour is facing a battle to hold off a challenge from Ukip leader Paul Nuttall.

One was in Westminster amongst commentariat and MPs... The other conversation was going on in Swindon where the Labour leader said we've been hurt by Ukip.

«The Conservatives are on the march in Wales where Labour are «in deep trouble» Main Tories force another Brown u-turn... on the TA»