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 ‘The zero-emission vehicle mandate is a major climate test for Burnham’ Against the backdrop of a summer of extreme heat, wildfires and record poor harvests in the UK, and… Ralph Palmer 15th October, 2026, 2:00 pm Comment ‘Reopening the Brexit debate would be a mistake’ Britain’s debate about Europe has been trapped between two competing stories. One says Brexit liberated Britain from an… Brendan Chilton 15th October, 2026, 6:00 am Comment ‘The message from Labour Conference is clear: we must get SEND reform right’ At Labour Party Conference this year, special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) proved impossible to ignore as the… Gurinder Singh Josan MP 15th October, 2026, 6:00 am
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