Sentences with phrase «labour core support»

However, the SNP which relies much more heavily on a «tartan tory» base and is much closer to big business has nevertheless managed quite sucessfully to eat heavily into Labour core support.

Not exact matches

Labour strategists fear that partnership with an «establishment» campaign including Conservatives would alienate their core support — as it did in Scotland.

On the one hand, it shows he is confident enough to reach out from beyond the party's core support into what is seen as Labour territory.

Labour now finds itself presented the problem of how to manage a core vote that has emerged as a radically Eurosceptic, conservative, insurgency and is forced for the first time to take seriously the tradition - orientated ideals, habits and orientations of the people who have supported it over generations.

For the first time in a generation, Labour is no longer the default choice for low - income voters, alienated from the largely socially conservative workers who once formed the core of its support.

Polling expert Peter Kellner commented «The figures do not support the argument that Labour paid a heavy price this year for neglecting its core voters; rather they tell us something far bigger about long - term trends and what Labour needs to do to regain power».

So the damage to Labour's core support had already been done by new Labour's focus on a pro-middle class, pro-EU, and as it turned out pro-immigration agenda.

Electorally, Labour also stands to lose most from pursuing such a xenophobic line as it will alienate ethnic minority voters who are a major component of the most deprived sections of the working class, and are a core constituency of its support in most metropolitan areas.

Labour fell short with voters outside this «London core», leaking support in multiple directions.

The «blue Labour» thinkers who have long recognised the threat Ukip posits to white working - class support will want a more socially conservative stance, particularly on immigration and Europe, but adopting such a position could put at risk the gains Labour have made with its «London core».

Everything else was designed to penalise the wealth creators and shore - up core labour support!

Its core support comes from a mix of financially insecure working - class men, who were traditionally loyal to Labour but who feel they have been «left behind» in modern Britain as mainstream parties chased the middle - class vote, and strategic Conservative sympathisers, who are keen to express hostility to the European Union but much less loyal to UKIP in general elections.

The Guardian's leader column concluded: «Having lost so much middle - class support over Iraq and alienation from Tony Blair, Labour now has to mobilise its core working - class base in order to win re-election next year.»

So, whilst all three unionist parties must honour Gordon Brown's pledge to deliver the «sharing of sovereignty» through a «federal state» within two years in order to forestall another independence referendum, Labour faces a massive task if it it is to recover its core support in the Westminster and Holyrood elections it faces in Scotland over the next two years.

This narrative becomes a shade more sinister when the dubious category of the «white working class» (apparently neglected more due to its whiteness than its class) is elevated to the status of Labour's «traditional» support — the «core vote» residing in the «heartlands».

At the southern end of the constituency is the large council estate of New Addington, a somewhat isolated development on the very edge of London that that has traditionally provided Labour with the core of their support in this seat, although in the most recent council elections they saw some support drifitng to the BNP.

The old core of Labour support has been squeezed by the Con - Lib Dem contest, with the old areas of Labour strength on the council estates now bases of Lib Dem support.

At the southern end of the constituency is the large council estate of New Addington, a somewhat isolated development on the very edge of London that that has traditionally provided Labour with the core of their support in this seat.

Swadlincote, with its mining and potteries heritage has always been the core of the Labour support here, although previous boundary incarnations also included wards from Derby itself that provided Labour votes.

Today he publishes a psephological analysis which he says supports his belief that those who deserted the party for the Tories at the last election were not high - earning voters but the less well - off; Labour's erstwhile «core» voters have now become «swing» voters.

He also warned that Labour had to rebuild its working class base of support following last Thursday's elections: «It's the middle ground that's actually remaining with Labour, it's the core traditional working class areas and votes that are moving away.»

It reflects an outdated labour intensive way of doing things where most of the core support functions of a firm were internalised.

... embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, [bold added] a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labour standards, the environment, and anti - corruption.109