Sentences with phrase «labour target voters»

Whatever the Corbynites may want to believe, less than one in four Labour target voters are opposed to competition, low taxes, private schools and the monarchy.

Not exact matches

Hilary Benn has made it clear he'd prefer to see Labour have its own, separate campaign targeting the concerns of traditional Labour voters.

Labour's problem is that its line on this is quite fuzzy and confusing, largely because its target voters are split straight down the middle on the issue.

The people Nuttall is hoping to target — long - term Labour voters who're dissatisfied with the current state of affairs and looking for change — are unlikely to feel particularly fondly about his reheated Thatcherism.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

Whether the voters believe Labour or not is another matter, but I think the fact that the spokesman is someone who was a Government rebel on 90 days, and who has been a target of surveillance himself, make Labour's position that little bit more credible.

By targeting the forgotten generation rent — estimated to include around 9m people — Labour is making a bid to reclaim the left - behind voters whom UKIP is so assiduously targeting.

The 1990s electoral tactic of announcing drastic future expenditure targets and forcing Labour to accept or reject them is designed for an electoral battleground for the swing voters in the marginal seats in contention between Labour and the Conservatives, almost all of which are in England.

Policies that are radical, innovative, resonate with our target voters and are up to dealing with the problems Labour will inherit.

He identified the use of Labour's «pink bus» targeting female voters, Nicola Sturgeon using a helicopter as transport, and the Liberal Democrats using an election bus as examples where expenditure was not allocated to the constituency where campaigning took place.

Nigel Farage says only a third of UKIP voters are ex-Tories, and the party is to target traditional Labour voters.

In Lib Dem target seats Labour voters were far more likely to vote tactically against the Conservatives than against the Liberals by a margin of about 4 - 1.

Admittedly there are commuters currently wending their way home who will be voting, but based on progress from the morning into early evening, the number of London Labour voters that the GOTV operation will be able to deliver to the polls is running substantially below target.»

Labour's drive to register new voters ahead of the election has not had an impact in other targets - the number of voters registered in Newcastle - under - Lyme, a key Tory target, has actually fallen by more than 2,000 since 2015.

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.

The Conservatives are using an updated form of Labour's Excalibur machine which they used to get to power in 1997 — this one called Merlin — but now combining the targeting of Excalibur with extensive polling of groups as large as 10,000 enabling the party to rapidly produce pieces of literature to snare wavering groups of voters.

Chancellor missed deficit targets but has managed to convince voters that Tory version of austerity is better than Labour ’s

Jag Singh, the founder of MessageSpace, which buys social media, internet and print advertising and provided services to the Conservative campaign, confirmed the Tories spent less money on Facebook ads rallying their own supporters than targeting ads at soft Labour voters.

«The Tories were advancing further into Labour territory but weren't defending their own marginals,» said Sam Jeffers, the co-founder of Who Targets Me, which tracked more than 7,000 political Facebook adverts sent to nearly 12,000 voters.

Targeting Labour voters is a key theme and grand strategy which Alex Salmond and the SNP have woven into their campaign for the next Westminster election.

Despite gains in Trafford and Southport, most of Labour's targets were missed, while the Tories failed to win over former Ukip voters, says politics writer Lewis Baston

First, we found that locally Ukip really is gunning for Labour: targeting working - class areas where Labour is locally dominant in the hope of cementing support among blue - collar voters, and forcing Miliband to promise an EU referendum.

At the moment you're probably right that even if Con picked up every UKIP voter, it wouldn't affect the result in those most marginal seats... but it would make a difference in target seats further down the list, and consequently to Labour's majority / largest party prospects.

Labour has created a sophisticated new social media tool that will allow it to target individual voters with tailored policy messages, the party's campaigns chief has told the Guardian.

Last year he admitted that many ethnic minority voters in his target seat of Dudley North, held by a Labour majority of just 649, think that the Tories «remain a racist party».

I suspect that they will win some of the Labour seats on their target list (and I listed the top 50 in that blog post last summer), but I'm not convinced that there will be that many: their position on Iraq marked them out from the other two parties at the last election, leading them to the high water mark they reached - but Iraq will not be an issue next year and it is hard to see which message they could put out which would resonate with voters in the same way.

The then Shadow Attorney General was accused of alienating Labour from the British public and key target voters, which left the former party leader «angry».

More welfare spending, based on the reversal of Tory cuts that seem to be fairly popular amongst the sort of voters Labour wants to target?