Sentences with phrase «conservative at the next election»

«We believe that the Conservatives at the next election need to be seen to be taking on the big, difficult issues facing society and not be distracted by the Ukip agenda of Europe and immigration.»

Many Tory activists now say in public that which they would only voice in private just a few months ago; that they won't campaign for Cameron's Conservatives at the next election.

Nearly 94 % of those who awarded him 8 or more out of 10 for his performance said they would vote Conservative at the next election, falling to just under two thirds of those who gave him 5 out of 10.

While minor, the changes are enough to make the seat notionally Conservative at the next election.

They have broken down the answers for all respondents and, more importantly, for the group of people who said they might consider voting Conservative at the next election, but didn't vote conservative in 2005.

Party insiders said the findings showed they would all be at risk of losing to either Ukip or the Conservatives at the next election, which is now widely expected before the end of the year.

The poll firstly asks if respondents might consider voting Conservative at the next election — 42 % say they might, technically enough to win the next election, but a comparatively poor figure compared to the 56 % who might consider voting Labour and the 50 % who might consider voting Lib Dem.

Hazel Blears delivered a pugilistic speech to the Labour party conference this afternoon, saying she expects a real «fight» against the Conservatives at the next election.

Today he has ruled out a non-aggression pact between his party and the Conservatives at the next election.

And that includes 50 per cent of those respondents who intend to vote Conservative at the next election.

• Nick Clegg firmly ruled out the prospect of an electoral pact with the Conservatives at the next election.

A reputable new poll has found that 38 % of gay men intend to vote Conservative at the next election — more than any other party, and a swing away from Labour of 14.2 %.

Lib Dem members reject the idea of an election pact with the Conservatives at the next election by 21 % to 66 %.

Amongst voters as a whole there was already a significant difference — people would prefer Brown to Davis as PM by 45 % to 32 % and would prefer Brown to Cameron by 43 % to 38 % — the real contrast though was amongst «floating voters», the 28 % of voters who told ICM it was only «possible» that they would vote Conservative at the next election.

Here is the latest in a series of lists categorising some of those standing as candidates in seats which are either notionally Conservative or appear on paper in the top 200 target seats for the Conservatives at the next election.

But new research by Jake, a networking organisation for gay professionals, suggests a worrying trend for Labour, with 38 % of Jake members who took part saying they would vote Conservative at the next election, 1 % higher than the general population, according to an average of recent opinion polls.

at the present rate, I will not be able to vote conservative at the next election (i live in croydon central - where we won by 80 votes at the last election - so I am one of the lucky few that has a vote that counts).

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He might be able to make a new Conservative Party out of the failures of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta and he might be able to get the folks who don't want to vote Wildrosie to vote for his party candidates at the next provincial election.

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At this moment, the Republican party, and the conservative cause with it, has a better than even chance of claiming an across the board supremacy in next November's election.

Just two - thirds of members now plan on voting Conservative at the next general election, down from 90 % when the Tories were in opposition.

Labour is enjoying its strongest polling since Gordon Brown's honeymoon, as a new survey shows Conservative voters are growing less likely to vote at the next election.

In his keynote speech at the end of the Lib Dem conference in Brighton, Farron ruled out ever working with «Marxist» Jeremy Corbyn, who he said had given up on holding the Conservative government to account or winning the next election.

Previous Conservative leaders have hit the sloughs of despair in the past and gone on to win where it really matters — at the next general election.

Labour have only been out of power for two years, having left Britain with the biggest deficit in the OECD, and yet YouGov polling throughout the early half of May 2012 have put Labour between nine and thirteen points ahead of the Conservatives, giving Labour a more than comfortable majority at the next General Election.

At the fringe meeting — where Mr Blunkett and Fabian General Secretary Sunder Katwala were joined by Lib Dems Dr Evan Harris and John Leech MP — there was some disagreement about how the Conservative - Lib Dem coalition would play out, especially when the next General Election draws nearer.

Details of the Thanet South poll were released after the local Conservative MP Laura Sandys announced her intention to stand down at the next election.

The poll then asked those who were currently intending to vote for the Conservatives, UKIP and the Liberal Democrats whether they would consider backing Labour at the next election.

Harman attacked the Conservative Party at the Labour Party Conference 2007, referring to them as the «nasty party» and suggesting that there would be little competition at the next election.

David Cameron gave Conservative MPs «a very strong indication» at the recent Parliamentary Party meeting that he wants to introduce legislation before 2015 for his planned EU referendum after the next election.

Only just over half (52 %) of Conservative defectors to UKIP, and only 60 % of Lib Dem defectors to Labour, ruled out returning to their 2010 parties at the next election.

As Peter Kellner shows on page 28, although the Conservatives are at present on course to win a clear majority, the next election may well produce no clear victor; but hung parliaments come in various forms.

That 1 % Labour lead in May's elections translates to the Conservatives having a 10 — 12 % advantage at the next General Election.

For the 2011 and 2012 local elections the model is fairly certain that the Conservatives will be the largest party at the next election.

Putting the Liberal Democrats to one side for the moment, the election results for Labour and the Conservatives are not at all unusual, and in no way indicate a certain Labour victory at the next election.

As Eleanor Laing pointed out, at the next election a clear message can be sent to voters: «If we have a Conservative government, they will have their say.»

My secondary model also predicts a very high probability that the Conservatives will win the largest share of the vote at the next election (76.24 %) whilst Labour only has a 15.35 % chance.

But the PM and his team have something else in their sights; by the end of 2013, there will be just 18 months before the next general election, so expect a major effort at Conservative Party HQ to start focusing on Ed Miliband's Labour operation.

1) Each local election predicts that the Conservatives will win more of the vote than Labour at the next election, though the confidence intervals for the 2012 and 2013 elections are overlapping.

From this, the BBC reported an estimate of national vote share of 31 % for the Conservatives, 38 % for Labour and 16 % for the Liberal Democrats, meaning that if these results were replicated at the next general election, Labour would win an 83 seat majority.

The uncertainty produced by the rise of UKIP is even more dramatically illustrated by a second model, which predicts the probability that the Conservatives or Labour will be the largest party at the next election.

This election is about choosing the government of our country for the next five years, and the choice could not be starker between a Conservative government led by me, continuing with a plan that's working, and putting it all at risk.»

This forecast (which, incidentally, is almost identical to Steve Fisher's latest forecast — based on polling data — for all parties except the Liberal Democrats) suggests that the Conservatives are likely to be the largest party at the next election.

Support for the Conservatives is finally high enough to suggest the party could win an outright majority at the next general election, according to a new poll.

The Majority section is an important new commitment to explore how the Conservative Party can win a governing majority at the next election.

Project Blueprint, launched in May 2011, aimed to examine the state of the Conservative voting coalition and to help identify what the party needed to do to achieve an overall majority at the next election.

We shall soon begin selecting prospective Conservative Party candidates to fight seats at the next General Election.

The next few weeks will determine whether this ends up in a vote which, at the very least, would help the Conservatives identify dividing lines and make it a campaigning issue in the 2015 general election.

A senior Conservative MP has become the first of this parliament to confirm he will step down at the next general election.

He was also careful to reject the idea that he could take up the Tory whip at the next election to avoid the wrath of Lib Dem voters, saying he would «never, never, never» join the Conservative party.