Sentence examples for marginal labour from inspiring English sources

A paltry £1,000 for each marginal Labour candidate hardly buys a poster site.

Mensch, who attributed her win in what was a marginal Labour seat at the last election to local newspaper coverage, said that such community-level stories "held [MPs] feet to the fire" in terms of accountability.

Nine former ministers today rounded on Gordon Brown's plans to cut childcare, warning the prime minister that he is threatening marginal Labour seats in the runup to the election by axing popular support for hard-working parents.

There had been speculation that he would contest Thanet South, which was a marginal Labour seat for 13 years until 2010, when it was won by Laura Sandys, one of the most pro-EU Conservative MPs in the current Parliament.

THREE weeks ago, a potential voter in South Dorset, then the most marginal Labour seat in England, received a letter that was similar to many others being sent out to battleground regions.

Mr Amin, who was standing in the marginal Labour seat Dudley North, was suspended by the Conservative party after he was filmed secretly meeting with Mr Robinson at a restaurant in Birmingham last week.

It's the most marginal Labour-Conservative seat in the region.

If the swing to Labour were just one point lower in these Tory marginals, Labour would win around a dozen fewer seats.

But recent polling by Lord Ashcroft, a Conservative peer, found that in five of eight key Tory-Labour marginals Labour had contacted more voters in some cases many more.The Conservatives are stronger at the national level.

But across the north-west, a region replete with marginals, Labour made progress, defeating the Lib Dem leader of Stockport council, extending a one seat lead in Bury to 21 seats.

While Labour's lead in the national polls is hovering around a relatively modest 5%, Lord Ashcroft suggests that in the Tory marginals Labour's lead is more like 14%, (43% to 29%), not because of any great surge in Labour's popularity, but because of UKIP splitting the right of centre vote.