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 ‘Labour’s moment of decision on defence’ I first heard about Dan Jarvis in 2011, on a patrol base in southern Afghanistan. The officer commanding… Dan Hardie 13th June, 2026, 1:00 pm Comment ‘Labour represents the sort of people for whom trade unions were created or it represents no one’ Just as many trade union members support Reform as support Labour, according to a recent poll. Many local… Francis Beckett 13th June, 2026, 10:00 am News New ministers in Defence, Home Office, Defra and Whips Office Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a series of ministerial appointments across government, alongside changes to the… LabourList Staff 13th June, 2026, 9:56 am
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