Sentences with phrase «eurosceptic voters»

Internal Tory polls failed to capture what columnists had long warned — that his relationship with many traditional Eurosceptic voters was at breaking point.

However, this does not mean that UKIP or other smaller parties may not stand to benefit if Eurosceptic voters become disillusioned with the parties that predominantly campaign to remain.

Eurosceptic voters clearly now have few alternatives with the collapse of UKIP — which has only a handful of councillors left.

By holding a referendum on the EU they hope to take the EU off the electoral agenda and avoid defections from eurosceptic voters.

Not exact matches

Eurosceptic MPs John Redwood, Anne Main and Bill Cash all suggested that ministers were attempting to keep voters in the dark about the reality of staying in the EU.

While senior Labour politicians seem to feel comfortable speaking to pro-EU middle - class voters who have seen the visible gains of EU membership, they have little to say to Eurosceptic working - class voters who have suffered on the other end.

However the EU is not always at the forefront of voters» minds: although eurosceptics are frequently vocal in their opposition to the EU, the empirical evidence suggests that, overall, European voters don't consider the EU as an important issue unless events bring it to their attention (such as the signing of a new treaty).

Tony Blair has infuriated Eurosceptic politicians with his call for remain voters to organise their...

We should be careful, however, not to assume that Tory members are stranded so far to the ageing, white, authoritarian, eurosceptic right that they are completely unrepresentative of the party's voters.

The first afternoon session was led by Professor Catherine de Vries, who explained the results of her extensive work into Eurosceptic parties and voters.

Tony Blair has infuriated Eurosceptic politicians with his call for remain voters to organise their opposition to Brexit and for Britain to keep its options open.

McDonnell, an open Eurosceptic, denied suggestions he and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had not campaigned hard enough for a Remain vote, saying they had been honest with voters about their reservations.

The European elections in May are widely expected to see more Eurosceptics elected to the parliament, amid continuing economic hardship for millions of Europeans and a much - criticised «disconnect» between EU institutions and voters.

Nowhere has this been more evident than in his Europe policy, where he essentially caved in to the more rabid Eurosceptic elements in his own party, in the hope of stemming the flow of voters and defecting MPs to UKIP.

I was there on the ground and was amazed at how much of their vote seemed to be coming from working and lower middle class voters, eurosceptic and socially conservative people, many of whom will have voted Labour at some point in the near past.

The Conservative candidate also picked up more than double the number of Ukip voters as Khan, suggesting that Goldsmith could benefit among more Eurosceptic parts of outer London.

They were roasted by Tory eurosceptic diehards including Nadine Dorries, Bill Cash and Mark Pritchard, who pointed out 49 % of Lib Dem voters backed the prime minister.

One said he was backing the amendment because he felt his voters expected him to be deeply eurosceptic - but that he disagreed with its «regret» wording as «ridiculous».

Fifteen million general election voters do not bother to go to the polling station for the European polls and those who do are typically older, whiter and more eurosceptic than general election voters.

The survey also found that voters typically are not interested in the European elections, but that those who are tend to be eurosceptic.

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

The data suggests that many older voters will switch away from the eurosceptic party in 2015 with less than three quarters of Ukip voters in the 2014 European elections saying they could see themselves doing the same in a General Election.

This builds on previous research into Eurosceptic voting patterns, particularly the relationship of this block of voters to UKIP and the Conservative party.

«Strategic defectors» are voters who support Ukip at European elections but return to the Conservatives at general elections: they are older, financially comfortable, middle - class men with Conservative sympathies, socially conservative Eurosceptics who are motivated principally by their desire to send a message to the Conservatives.

In perhaps 8 to 12 of these seats you could sensibly argue that if there hadn't been a UKIP candidate then the Tory candidate would have won given that they were the most Eurosceptic alternative choice for UKIP voters.

A third of voters in 40 marginal seats would consider voting for Ukip at the next general election but over half said they would next cast their ballot for the eurosceptic party, a new ComRes poll for ITV News suggests.

Voters in the Netherlands have backed two pro-European centrist parties, while the anti-immigrant Geert Wilders» Eurosceptic party took heavy losses.

Appearing on stage to a rapturous reception at the eurosceptic party's conference in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Mr Reckless told activists voters felt «ripped off and lied to».