After much heavy labour with trucks and shovels, several severed roads have also been reconnected.
Now its policy on the single currency is one issue on which the party seems more in tune than Labour with public opinion.
Both seats are held by Labour with majorities of under 5, 000.
The results leave Labour with 28 council seats, the Lib Dems with 23, the Conservatives with 14, Green Party with four, and one Independent councillor.
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Yet modern man engages in the sharing of tasks and in an extremely elaborate division of labour with strangers that is, with genetically unrelated members of his species.
In its aftermath came a succession of polls suggesting that, at best, the Tories were still flatlining with a level of support that would return Labour with a barely diminished majority.
The changes this latest poll registers repeat the pattern of earlier surveys this month: a substantial fall in support for Labour with both the Conservatives and Lib Dems benefiting evenly from the fall-out.
Taking the Buttrills council ward in Barry in a by-election from Labour with a 12 per cent swing earlier this month has given them some heart that they're on the right track.
With all the results in, the BBC's projection of the national share of the vote has Labour with a 38% national share of the vote, up three points, with the Tories down four on 31%.
His warning "never, ever trust Labour with our economy again" will disappoint those in his party who are keen to keep the door open to the possibility of a coalition with Labour in the future.
Although their tactics vary, they are all telling voters the same thing: if you are a Labour voter, there is no point voting Labour with your second vote because you will not elect any more members, so why don't you give it to us?
John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde university, says a swing from Labour to the Conservatives of 1.5%, spread evenly across the whole country, would give the two parties identical shares of the vote, but, on current boundaries, leave Labour with an overall majority of 22.
Dealing with Labour's recession and dealing with Labour's record debt are not separate priorities - one urgent, the other to be put on the back burner.
It is essential not just for the long-term, but for the short-term too, because dealing with Labour's recession and dealing with Labour's record debt are two sides of the same coin.
Fiscal responsibility not just because it is right for the long-term, to deal with Labour's record debt, but because it is right for the short-term, to deal with Labour's recession by giving people and businesses the confidence to invest again and get the recovery going.
Eight months into the job, he used for the first time a phrase that became emblematic of New Labour and the break with Labour's past that it represented.
But co-operation with Labour has never been popular with his own party.
Blame for that lies with politicians: Labour has fiddled with the criminal justice system more than a dozen times since it came to power in 1997.
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The funding is part of a budget deal that Labour struck with Plaid Cymru last year.
Mr Blair's problem is that he came to office having contrasted Labour integrity with Tory sleaze.
Labour, with 28 members, is short of a clear majority in the 60-member Assembly.
She's a Labour MP with a lengthy record of fighting for the rights of the Saharawi people.
He contrasts the intellectual depth of the New Labour project with the vacuity of Mr Cameron's decontaminated Conservatism.
Kim Howells and Margaret Beckett chaired the committee of MPs, both are Labour MPs with close government connections.
We can campaign to re-elect a Labour government with a large enough majority to see through a second term.
The change between Thatcher and Major wrong-footed Labour, with Neil Kinnock later calling her his party's "greatest electoral asset".
Also, companies could try to renegotiate their labour contracts with the steel union.
Nick Clegg insisted they could be trusted more with the economy than Labour and more with society than the Conservatives.
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