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 Analysis ‘Activists are not as weird as we worry they are’ Watching the coverage of the Lib Dem conference has been quite interesting and instructive. You might expect me… Emma Burnell 24th September, 2026, 11:29 am Columnist Liam Evans column: ‘The Left needs the confidence and optimism to dream’ Elon Musk is trying to populate Mars. Trump wants flying cars. Javier Milei plans to abolish the peso… Liam Evans 24th September, 2026, 6:00 am Comment ‘Tech companies must answer for online violence against women’ Non-consensual images, misogyny, harassment, threats of violence. These are just a small number of the dangers women and… Jess Asato MP 24th September, 2026, 6:00 am
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