Sentences with phrase «british electorate»

But Cambridge has said it never actually advised the Leave.eu campaign beyond initial discussions, despite Leave.eu's own statements that the firm «will be helping us map the British electorate and what they believe in, enabling us to better engage with voters.»

It would be sad indeed if the British electorate needed such persuasion to shake off their apathy.

These results form part of a wide ranging poll that sought the views of the British electorate on the likely impact of a hard Brexit as well as people's views of the Trump administration and its policies.

The latest exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans is intensely political, as he showcases his posters containing pleas to the British electorate to remain in the EU.

Among that part of the British electorate that would never vote Conservative, it is clear that Labour is still the leading party.

Former Conservative MP Francis Maude says it is an insult to the British electorate to say that they are influenced by newspapers like this.

The British electorate will experience its first ever TV election debate between the main party leaders this week.

Of course Lord Kinnock never managed to convince the British electorate that his judgement was sufficiently balanced to be entrusted as Prime Minister.

For the last four years Cameron has done a brilliant job of reinventing a party that sizable swaths of the British electorate had seemed determined not to vote for again.

So the truth is, modest progress, Labour not even doing as well as they were able to do earlier in this parliament, and thereby again reinforcing the doubts that have always been there that at the end of the day it is not entirely clear that the British electorate regard Labour as a clear alternative.

Its media operation has a clear message about the choice the British electorate faces at the next election.

Above all, he understands that the British electorate of the 21st century is an utterly different creature from that of the 20th, and nostalgia possesses no virtue in its eyes.

Here the British electorate are in charge: prudence will reign!

The idea that the British electorate will vote for a party that holds these views is absurd.

That renegotiation was followed by a referendum in June 2016, which resulted in the British electorate voting to withdraw from the European Union by 52 % to 48 % and led to the resignation of Cameron as Prime Minister.

The MEP's have to accept that the majority of the British electorate (and especially Tory voters) are Eurosceptic.

So the British electorate made a choice.

The political class has many self - serving theories about the British electorate.

«Opinion polls show that his views on nuclear disarmament are today shared by the majority of the British electorate across the political spectrum - a fact that our politicians would do well to recognise as they head into a general election.

Peter Kellner of YouGov recently wrote an interesting piece about the volatility of the British electorate, providing some figures on the «churn» between parties.

All rights reserved THE BRITISH electorate, to judge by the opinion polls, is about to vote into power either a minority Labour government or - just possibly - a Labour government with a tiny overall majority.

With the Representation of the People Act 1918, almost all adult men (excepting only peers, criminals and lunatics) and most women over the age of thirty were given the right to vote, almost tripling the British electorate at a stroke, from 7.7 million in 1912 to 21.4 million in 1918.

He is a very different type of leader from his predecessor Neil Kinnock, who was probably a tad too brash for the British electorate; Smith is the friendly bank manager in the High Street (before, that is, bank managers became a toxic brand) and he leads a united Labour opposition.

«We will hope and believe that between now and the next election, we can win the case with the British electorate that will give us the same level or the same sort of level of support as last time on our record.»

The shame of it is that Hughes, Cable et al don't seem to be in any position to alleviate the worst effects of Tory idiocy, altho even then you could argue they are doing their best with the bad hand dealt to them by a combination of the clueless British electorate and a deeply flawed electoral system.

September 2017, LSE British Politics and Policy blog: How the Labour vote reflects a values - based realignment of the British electorate

We also consider some of the potential consequences of the EU referendum for the British electorate.

The second is Corbyn's real nemesis: the British electorate.

Or does it just cater for the EU - skepticism of the British electorate?

The British Election Study is committed to providing expertise which advances understanding of the British electorate to any interested party, as part of its broad commitment to public engagement and impact.

Have you learned nothing with regards to the «free market» impossible perpetual motion machine that New Labour foisted onto the British electorate?

If May is able to announce a new trade deal it will come as a much - needed boost to her standing with her party, the Commons and the British electorate.

In the future, to win general elections they will need to improve their relationship with ethnic minorities as they become a bigger part of the British electorate.

The British electorate is aging, rapidly, with life expectancy now topping 80 for women.

For all its innate Euroscepticism, the British electorate would ultimately not be persuaded about the viability or attraction of life outside the EU.

Public funds totalling # 500 million a year are being spent on an army of at least 29,000 professional politicians in the UK — which compares with the British electorate of more than 44 million.

I ask, because most politicians from all parties are busily trying to assure both the EU and the British electorate that nothing should really change when we finally leave.

But the answer is as divided as the British electorate over the decision to leave the European Union.

Not exact matches

Defining our offering to the electorate through our traditional values of personal liberty, social progression, meritocracy and a radical shakeup of the establishment - all of which I believe are at the core of Tim's beliefs - will help to make sure the public have a strong instinct of what the party stands for, why it's not a «split - the - difference» party, and why it plays a crucial role in British politics.

It may be churlish to say, but a large percentage of the electorate really are more interested in the X-Factor and the Great British Bake Off than matters of state.

«Take back control» was an extremely powerful slogan because it, in part, reflected a public desire for the British state to react to globalisation on its own terms and in a way which is responsive to the electorate.

Very few voters can make a significant outcome to the electorate, undermining the democratic legitimacy of British government.

They describe how British politics has never been so unpredictable, with important new questions facing the electorate.

A momentous day in British politics It was a day in which the electorate allowed none of the parties to claim outright victory in yesterday's general election.

Much recent analysis of British politics has assumed, explicitly or implicitly, that constituency campaigns have no impact upon an electorate that draws on an increasingly nationalized media for its information.

He acknowledged the «cruel punishment» administered to his fellow Liberal Democrats by the electorate and warned that British liberalism is needed to challenge the politics of identity, grievance and fear.

«If liberal Conservative MPs allow ourselves to be drummed out of the Conservative Party, whether by heeding the calls for a new Party or by accepting that our views no longer have a place within our Party, then that would send a terrible signal, not only to the electorate but also to the tens of thousands of Tory members, councillors, donors and supporters who share our views and want us to lead the charge in putting forward a mainstream agenda which appeals to the centre - ground of British politics and, in particular, to younger and future voters.»

The electorate believes that «the parties are all the same, the politicians are all the same, they are not like us, it does not make any difference», according to Ruth Fox, director of the Hansard Society, which records British political discourse.