Sentences with phrase «conservative heartland»

It's a bit more straightforward in the south - east, the natural Conservative heartland.

By 2010, these seats tended to have smaller electorates than Conservative heartland seats.

Much of their support is from the Conservative heartlands, and even the vast majority of those workers who intend to vote for them have not defected from Labour: only 17 % of UKIP voters voted Labour in 2010 (the same amount who voted Liberal - Democrat), compared with 45 % who voted for the Conservatives.

The economy may have played stronger as an argument in the old Conservative heartlands, and some of the LibDem ones, where the recovery is more apparent and deprivation less so.

The route cuts through rural Conservative heartlands in Buckinghamshire and Warwickshire as well as the Chilterns, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty.

Such a move could see the replacement for Mr Johnson increase the Tory majority in traditional Conservative heartlands, further increasing the party's momentum after it overturned Labour's hold over Crewe and Nantwich in yesterday's by - election.

He added that Scottish Labour needed to «rediscover our vision for the future» and noted that the SNP had appealed to «left, right and centre, winning Conservative heartlands and Labour heartlands».

Not exact matches

He has given full - throated voice to a party base, which he knows well as a Conservative in the true Reform tradition in the party's heartland, wondering how the government it elected has lost its way.

He's well known for being theologically Reformed and regularly preaches at the heartland of the conservative evangelical, the Keswick Convention.

Labour made a net gain of just two from the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Democrats collapsed in suburban England and their south - western heartlands as the centre - left vote fragmented and centre - right voters moved over to the Tories.

In 2015 Labour will be outspent by the Conservatives in the south, harried by the SNP and Ukip in its northern and Scottish heartlands and hampered by the ongoing disappointment that is its leader.

Vince Cable has long touted his Department as the heartland of Lib Dem opposition to Conservative leadership of the coalition.

Conservative insiders say it represents their best chance of making inroads in Labour's north - eastern manufacturing heartland.

Julie Moody is on the approved list of Conservative parliamentary candidates and recounts here how the miners» strike of 1984 - 85 politicised her as a 15 - year - old growing up in the mining heartland of County Durham.

The fact is that the principal political crunch in the fight for control of the councils in many of the Labour heartland cities is not between Labour and the Conservatives but between Labour and the LibDems, who now control many of the councils which for a generation had been controlled by Labour with little opposition.

13th December 2016, Conservative Home: Anand Menon: May is arming her Party to challenge Labour in its heartlands

Hence the phenomenon which has emerged since 1997 of the Lib Dems functioning as the Opposition to Labour in the North and to the Conservatives in the South, particularly in areas which have a tradition of «one - party rule» — the heartlands of the two main parties.

In a further blow, Labour last night lost a council seat in a traditional heartland to the Conservatives.

Even so, the prospect of losing heartland seats will be a blow to Labour's hopes: every seat they lose in Scotland means another they have to win from the Conservatives in England, while the national polls could not be much narrower.

From the point of view of local Conservatives (and the government) the deal opens promising political terrain in a Labour heartland.

Research for the Centre for Policy Studies by Conservative MP Philip Dunne has revealed how Gordon Brown has used his control of the nation's purse strings to tilt the growth of funding towards urban Britain - much of it Labour's heartlands.

If the Conservatives don't broaden their appeal and break out of the heartland, it is going to be so much harder to win sustainable overall Commons majorities.»

The group, which calls itself Renewal, is dedicated to rebuilding the party's appeal outside its southern heartlands and has prepared its proposals for Conservative conference.

I believe that Bayh would do well in the heartland, and with the conservative Democrats who supported Clinton, and that the Democratic base would come to support him.

After initial polling suggested it was going to be a landslide win for the Welsh Conservatives, many were left wondering just how much of a traditional Labour heartland the nation could truly be.

Polltroll — they're in a rather awkward position at the nomen between Scottish Labour surging up back to where they were in 2011, the Conservatives certainly back in play in the vast majority of seats they took in 1979, and the Lib Dems ahead in some key heartland constituencies.

It's about using democracy to resolve our differences the best we can, while building bridges between the «two Americas» that have come into sharp relief — a liberal, urbanized, mostly coastal, and generally more affluent one, and a conservative, rural and exurban, generally poorer, heartland one.

Nancy Jackson, founder of the Climate + Energy Project, says her goal is to reset the norm for energy consumption in the heartland, «putting the «conserve» back in «conservative»» and promoting what she sees as a «win - win - win» proposition — save money, build local economies and insure a healthier energy future.

People criticize Lomborg for bad science and bad economics, but I think those act as misdirections to obscure the very, very clever political arguments, which conflict progressive / centrists, but make certain conservatives * very * happy (like, CATO, CEI, Fraser, heartland, Hoover, Manhattan, Reason).