Meanings
- not comparableSomewhat safe.
Before 1914 Newport had been a fairly safe Liberal seat, and after 1945 it was a safeish Labour seat which fell to the Tories only in the 1980s heyday of Thatcherism.
1997, Chris Cook, John Ramsden, By-elections in British politics
Origin
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