6th May, 2012, 6:15 pm Expectation management fail? Mark Ferguson Share this article: My attention has just been drawn to this spectacular failure of expectation management by CCHQ’s press team on Twitter from Friday morning. 700 started off as the accepted Tory figure that Labour would need to cross, but then they said: Labour gained 824 seats. Tags: CCHQ / Mark Ferguson Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015. View all articles by Mark Ferguson Subscribe to our daily email More from LabourList Comment ‘Lammy has shattered Labour’s Brexit omerta and reopened discussion on relations with the EU’ In pointing out that there would be advantages to Britain’s economy in being back in a Custom Union… Denis MacShane 9th December, 2025, 3:14 pm News Fair pay agreement for care: The most radical policy no-one’s heard of Some call the Fair Pay Agreement ‘Labour’s most radical policy no-one knows about’. For the first time ever,… Tom Belger 9th December, 2025, 6:00 am Comment ‘Rushing a UK–EU customs union now would undermine real progress’ “For economic renewal, we have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the European Union”. Those were… Andrew Lewin 9th December, 2025, 6:00 am
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