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Posts Tagged: Chorley

Aidy Riggott: Labour’s war on football in Chorley

First they say fans are unwelcome. Then instead of apologising, they continue weaselling around with contradictory claims.

By Aidy Riggott | 8 October 2018 | 6 comments

Our CCHQ election audit: the rusty machine, part two. How and why the ground campaign failed.

Activists were asked to trust in a targeting analysis that proved to be based on flawed data and assumptions that were overturned by the manifesto.

By Mark Wallace | 6 September 2017 | 117 comments

Richard Short: What I learnt from my campaigning tour of the constituencies

It is worth looking at where we were successful, and what went right, in the hope we can replicate that, and secure better success at the next general election.

By Richard Short | 18 June 2017 | 67 comments

Battleground Seats 9) North West

Continuing our ConservativeHome series on the key contests in each region or nation.

By Henry Hill | 29 May 2017 | 25 comments

May’s maids. Watch the Prime Minister’s show-not-tell drive for more women Conservative MPs.

The selections in the two Tory-held seats to date have both been won by women; and there is at least one woman on the shortlist of every such seat yet to select.

By Paul Goodman | 28 April 2017 | 24 comments

Exclusive. Aldershot, Chichester and Chester shortlist details. The man up against Farron. Latest selection news.

All the latest candidate selections, shortlists in key marginals and details of tonight’s contests.

By Mark Wallace | 28 April 2017 | 13 comments

Watkins back for third go at Tooting. Macleod battles Cracknell for Brentford & Isleworth. Latest candidate news.

Shortlists for Wirral West, Ealing Central & Acton, Chorley and Bristol East. And selection results in Blackpool South, Darlington and Eltham.

By Mark Wallace | 26 April 2017 | 14 comments

Andrew Snowden: In Chorley, the Conservatives have a chance to retake lost ground

The seats being fought were last contested in 2012 after the Pasty Tax Omnishambles Budget.

By Andrew Snowden | 5 April 2016 | 6 comments

The Conservatives shouldn’t settle for coming third in Oldham

We can’t win a workable majority without breaking through in more seats in the urban and suburban North and Midlands.

By Paul Goodman | 4 December 2015 | 206 comments

Battlegrounds Revisited 1) The North West

In the aftermath of the election, we revisit our regional profiles to see how the parties fared compared to expectations.

By Henry Hill | 21 May 2015

The Election Battleground 1) The North West

In the first of our series looking at May’s electoral battlegrounds, we explore the fierce fights which are taking place across the North West.

By Mark Wallace | 19 February 2015 | 18 comments

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