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Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 4 May 2012

LOCAL ELECTIONS: LABOUR WINS BIG Labour is expected to win 700 new seats in local elections, with a projected vote share of 39 per cent to the Conservatives' 31. Ed Miliband's party has made significant inroads into southern and Midlands councils. But Tory Boris Johnson is expected to be re-elected as London mayor, despite his party's unpopularity. Labour wins big as UKIP eats into Conservative support FACEBOOK SETS VALUE AT $95 BILLION Facebook has set the share price for its initial public offering (IPO) on 18 May at between $28 and $35 per share, valuing the company at between $85bn and $95bn.
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Labour Clobbered in Brit Local Elections

US Politics / Conservative : Blogs For Victory (4 years ago)

Wow: Labour slumped to a record low in yesterday’s local council elections as it was swept from power in its last four counties. The party faced losing more than 300 seats as its projected share of the vote plummeted to 23 per cent,... Read Post

In Swing Seats, Labour Is At 18 Percent

Politics : The Daily Dish By Andrew Sullivan (3 years ago)

This is devastating for both major parties: I'll leave you with this chilling reading for the Labour Party - a Guardian/ICM poll of marginal seats shows them down on just 18 per cent, a drop of five, while the Liberal... Read Post

What the Lib Dems Want

Politics : Hendrik Hertzberg (3 years ago)

You are surely aware that if the Conservative Party doesn’t win a majority of parliamentary seats in Thursday’s British election (Labour has no chance), then the third party, the Liberal Democrats, will hold the balance...... Read Post


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