Take May's local elections, the first test of the popularity of the coalition government, elections which saw Labour consolidate it's position in the north, taking councils off the Conservatives in Blackpool and Sheffield, Newcastle and Hull from Lib Dem leadership.
By liberating the economy, Margaret Thatcher tackled the first of these problems, and subsequent Labour governments consolidated her gains.
Labour also consolidated their hold on St Helens, taking four seats from the Lib Dems and one from the Tories.
Attacking New Labour for consolidating capitalism, he wrote: "The main task today [for] the labour movement [is to have] policies that will serve the independent interests of working people and help lay the foundations of a socialist society".
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, consolidated his grip on the party with a reshuffle of his shadow cabinet roles.
Gower proposed that, under New Labour, this position was consolidated through schemes to encourage work.
If New Labour wanted to consolidate its gains, we believed, it would have to become more gender-aware and egalitarian in its own internal practices as well as in its politics.
They had planned to be ahead in the polls by now with every successive week delivering knock-out blows to Labour that would consolidate and then increase their lead.
Would it be fair to say that it was Labour, more than his own party, who consolidated his reforms?
It was the fetus therefore, not the mother, that determined when labour started.A stint at the University of California had consolidated those findings.
