Sentence examples for win a Labour majority from inspiring English sources

And I relish the battle ahead to win a Labour majority that will bring the change Britain needs.

The idea that Labour could win enough seats in the South to get a Labour majority without winning any back in Scotland is classically illogical wishful thinking.

Putting all these factors, and some smaller ones, together John Curtice estimated in 2011 that the Conservatives would need a lead of more than 11 points on current boundaries to win a majority, while Labour could secure one with a lead of just three points.

As polling analyst Lewis Baston has shown: "Merely holding Liberal Democrat converts is enough to make it impossible for the other parties to form a non-Labour government but not enough for Labour to win a working majority".

Moreover, to win an overall majority, Labour needs a swing of 4.3%, which is higher than it has achieved in any election since 1945.

She now believes the "echo chamber" of Twitter isn't an effective tool to influence politics: "If Twitter was Britain, we would have won a majority Labour government".

Following Labour's 1970 defeat, the emergence of the Liberal party as a centrist "third force" made it impossible for Labour to win a working majority.

While Miliband says he is "optimistic" that Labour can win the election as the largest party and hopes to win a majority, many senior Labour figures still believe it will be a long haul.

What those who say that Labour cannot win without Scotland are really saying is that they do not believe Labour can ever win a sizeable majority again.

In October, Wilson failed to win a working majority; even without Scotland Labour would have been the largest party.

Middlesbrough's steely "Robo-Mayor," formerly detective-superintendent Ray Mallon, horrified party officials when he demolished the Labour candidate to win a 17,000 majority in 2002.