Sentences with phrase «conservatives neck and neck»

Although Oddchecker has Labour as the favourites it has the Greens ahead and the Conservatives neck and neck with Labour on the most popular bets.

And with Labour and the Conservatives neck and neck in the polls, one thing is certain; the morning of May 8 will bring a political landscape of the sort never seen before in British politics.

The wonks of Westminster scratch their heads at opinion polls that show Labour and Conservatives neck and neck.

A public opinion poll conducted in May 2003 found the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives neck and neck in public support, with the New Democrats trailing.

Not exact matches

With Labour and Conservative viewed as neck - and - neck in the polls, the horserace narrative dominated 2015 campaign coverage.

If Labour does get its act together in the final 3 weeks, and esp if its economy message resonates, but the LDs stay above 25 % but don't get to 30 - 33 % + then there is an opportunity for Labour to finish neck and neck, or within 2 - 3 points, of the Conservatives.

A YouGov poll for the Evening Standard showed the Conservatives would be neck - and - neck with Labour in the polls on 37 per cent of the vote if they were led by Mr Johnson.

To put it bluntly, I really believe that polls now showing the Conservatives and Labour neck - and - neck will prove to be way off the mark on May 7th.

The BBC's projected national share of the vote, which uses the results in local elections to estimate the parties» standing across the country, put Labour and the Conservatives neck - and - neck on 35 % apiece.

At first, this does not appear to be a major change in the electoral fortunes of the parties but when we look at the revised national shares, the impact is more significant as this suggests that Labour and the Conservatives would be neck and neck in England & Wales rather than the 2.5 point lead the Conservatives actually had.

With the polls showing the Conservatives and Labour firmly stuck in neck - and - neck position, they are playing on multiple chessboards in a desperate scramble for votes.

The drop in Conservative support looks striking, but is probably largely a reversion to the mean after the unusual neck - and - neck Ashcroft poll last week.

All ten of our January polls have found the two parties neck - and - neck, with Labour on 33 % plus or minus one, and the Conservatives on 32 %, again plus or minus one.

A year ago, Labour and Conservative were running neck - and - neck on which of them would be better at running the economy.

The Conservatives and Labour are neck and neck on 35 % a piece.

Past midnight on Election Night, Majestic had 1,002 votes on the Republican and Conservative Party lines; challenger Lisa Lindsley was breathing down her neck with 981 votes on the Democratic, Working Families and Women's Equality Party lines; and 124 absentee ballots plus an undetermined number of affidavits still remained to be counted.

Following a poorly received Budget, when six in ten people said it would be bad for them personally, the Conservatives and Labour are neck - and - neck on being seen as having the best policies to manage the economy.

The 2015 election bore strong similarities to 1992, with opinion polls putting the Labour and Conservative parties neck and neck during the campaign, only for John Major's Conservatives to win the actual contest with an overall majority of 21 seats.

Election 2015 latest polls: Conservatives and Labour neck - and - neck in final polls before election 6 May 2015

A separate poll by Populus for the Times newspaper focusing on Conservative target seats from numbers 50 to 149 placed the two parties neck and neck, on 38 % apiece.

Politics in this neck of the woods is almost 19th century in its character - a real struggle between liberal and conservative values.

A final observation: Southampton Itchen, one of the four Labour held seats, showed a swing of 0.5 % from Lab to Con, putting the Conservatives and Labour neck and neck on 33 %.

Almost # 14.4 m was donated to political parties» war chests during the general election campaign - with the Conservatives and Labour almost neck and neck, official declarations show.

His polling found the Conservatives ahead in Berwick and in Taunton, neck - and - neck in Torbay but a hefty swing towards the Liberal Democrats in Eastborne.

In the regional list the poll reports Labour neck - and - neck with the Conservatives, both on 18 %, but dropping to 17 % for Labour and 19 % for the Tories among those who said they were likely to vote on the day.

Despite most opinion polls predicting that the Conservatives and Labour were neck and neck, the Conservatives secured a surprise victory after having won a clear lead over their rivals and incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron was able to form a majority single - party government with a working majority of 12 (in practice increased to 15 due to Sinn Féin's 4 MPs» abstention).

Its 2015 general election eve poll had Tories and Labour neck and neck on 34 % when the Conservatives won with a clear seven - point lead the next day.

To put this in context, if we look back at 2006 - 2007 when the opposition Conservatives had a comparable single - digit lead over the Labour government, David Cameron was pretty much neck and neck with Tony Blair as best PM, the Conservatives and Labour were pretty much neck and neck on who would run the economy well and Cameron had a positive approval rating.

Published polls in the lead up had the election as neck and neck and it was almost a certainty there would be another hung parliament but the Conservatives won on the night with a clear majority.

This is a 3.5 swing from Conservative to Labour, or the equivalent of a national poll showing Labour and Conservative neck - and - neck.

At the last election Robert Buckland had a majority of 7.5 %, so with the national polls level we'd expect to find Conservative and Labour pretty much neck - and - neck here.

However, it contrasts with the ComRes poll of the same constituency earlier this month which showed the Conservatives, UKIP and Labour all neck - and - neck.

Both Mr Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell have claimed Labour were virtually neck - and - neck with the Conservatives until the leader was hit by a wave of frontbench resignations.

Labour's projected national vote share - at 35 % - is its best such performance since 2012 and puts it neck and neck with the Conservatives - but in 2013, 2014 and 2016 it was estimated to be narrowly ahead of the Tories.

Underlying party support in Britain is pretty stable — if you graph opinion polls over the last couple of years it's clear that the only events that have actually shifted political support have been David Cameron's election as Conservative leader, which moved the Labour and Conservative parties pretty much neck and neck, and the week prior to the local elections when Labour was hit by both John Prescott's affair and the foreign prisoner release scandal, since when the Conservatives have had a consistent lead.

Instead of the keeping the neck high and the dress as a looser silhouette as pictured on the model here, I decided I wanted to bring my waist in by tying a bandana around it, and I used the scarf to the dress as a choker to hang in the back rather than being so conservative in the front.

The most exciting thing about halter dresses is that many halter dresses have more conservative necklines (less of a plunging V neck) which allows for more versatility at the hemline and back without you tiptoeing into being a (cough cough) dare I say, a hussy.

Bondage - like chokers are a twist on frilly Edwardian collars, and conservative neck and hemlines are contrasted by open backs.

I love the conservative turtle neck mixed with the playful front slit and flow - y arms which gives it that edge I always look for.

This will set your shirt off in a conservative manner, and at the same time will emphasise your neck and ears.

Whenever I'm wearing a mini, I like to go with something more conservative on the top and pairing a mini skirt with a simple turtle neck is one of my favorite combinations!

Ever since Laura Bush took to the Today Show to promote Harriet Miers» candidacy nomination for the Supreme Court, I've been craning my neck and straining my mouse - hand to try to find other conservative women who support her — preferably conservative - y women in the law.

Claimant underwent surgery to the shoulder and conservative treatment to the neck.