Sentences with phrase «labour voters saying»

The poll shows core Labour voters saying they are less likely to back Labour, not definitely deciding to abandon it.

Barring a substantial shift in the last few days of campaigning — which seems unlikely given that 91 per cent of Labour voters say they probably will not change their minds — we can expect a swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour of around 8 per cent since the general election.

Most thought Cameron would perform better overall, and one in five Labour voters said that even though they weren't satisfied with him they would rather see him in the job than Ed Miliband.

It's important not to over-egg this — only 3 % of hardcore Labour voters said there was no way they would vote Labour at the next election.

Thirty - eight per cent of Labour voters said Brown was an asset as opposed to just 28 % who said he was a liability.

Sixty - seven per cent of Labour voters say he is doing well compared to 57 % last week.

At the moment 94 % of current Tory voters think that May would make the better Prime Minister, but only 46 % of current Labour voters say Corbyn would (15 % say May, 39 % say «Not sure»).

It is also telling that one fifth of Labour voters say they disapprove of David Cameron as Prime Minister, but would still prefer him to Ed Miliband.

Only three quarters of Conservative voters and four in five Labour voters said they wanted to see their own party govern alone after the election: 16 % of Tories and 13 % of Labour voters said they would rather be in coalition with the Lib Dems.

In January 45 % of Labour voters said a Green - Labour coalition would be a good thing, with just 20 % opposing.

The life - long Labour voter said she could no longer support the party under Jeremy Corbyn despite being a socialist

Not exact matches

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the appointment «makes mockery of media neutrality and insults the voters he is supposed to serve.»

Labour are languishing on 25 %, while 42 % of voters said they would back the Tories if an election was held tomorrow.

This is worth bearing in mind when you see the countless vox - pop interviews with working class voters who used to support Labour, saying they feel the party's MPs are nothing like them.

Unlike Scottish Labour, who welcome Yes voters, Davidson has said if any Tory members voice support for Scottish independence, there should be an «amicable parting of ways».

That one - in - four Labour voters still think he is doing a bad job is not great for Miliband, especially when you compare it to Tory voters, 94 % of whom say Cameron is doing a good job.

The Labour leader is backed by only 16 % of voters, while more than a third (35 %) say they can't choose between them.

You could be on the doorstep and say something about a policy and a voter would agree, but then say «But we're Labour».

At the end of last month Ed Miliband had net personal ratings of -46 % according to YouGov with 68 % of voters saying he is «doing badly» as leader of the Labour party.

Of the 634 voters it spoke to who ranked Labour as their first preference, 49 % said they would prefer a minority government, compared to 30 % who wanted to see a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

«What I've found fascinating in the last week of this process has been the numbers of people — probably not in the Labour party, may not even be Labour voters — who have written to me to say thanks very much for speaking up against austerity and for speaking up against inequality in society,» he says.

Ben Page of Mori said today that two - thirds of LibDem voters (24 %) prefer a LD - Labour to an LD - Tory deal, so that (amounts to roughly 16 % v 8 % of total electorate) gets you close to 45 % who strongly prefer a left coalition.

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.

In an interview with The Herald yesterday, the Witney MP acknowledged the Tories had «let down people in Scotland», saying the current choice for voters was between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, who are now running things, or the SNP.

Labour needs to attract religious voters to help it win the general election, a Cabinet minister will say today.

«At a time when Britain is led by a government which appears unable to recognise, let alone overcome, the enormous challenges facing it, Labour needs to be outward - looking, united and engaged with the issues that matter to voters,» said Progress.

In his speech, the former prime minister says: «From now until 10 pm on 23 June, we will not rest and I will not stop explaining why nine million Labour voters have most to gain from remaining in the EU.

The Conservatives are also seen as the safest pair of hands to manage the economy overall, with 40 per cent of voters thinking that the Conservatives are the best party for the UK economy, compared to 31 per cent who say Labour is.

Cat Smith's suggestion that demographics are on Labour's side — because individuals turning 18 are statistically likely to be leftwing, whereas Tory voters are mainly pensioners — was greeted with derision, but I was sat on that same panel and it wasn't the only thing she said.

Over a third of Labour voters in 2015, where it went down to heavy defeat, said they would not vote for the party under him.

Having said that they could potentially take away socially conservative Labour voters.

Lots of stuff about the centre ground of politics and the «squeezed middle», which says to me he's going for the same few thousand swing voters that Blair and New Labour did, and forget about the rest of us.

Ms Cooper, who confirmed she would run in a column for the Daily Mirror, said Labour had lost the election because the party did not show voters it «had the answers to match up with their ambitions».

Only 26 %, including 60 % of Labour voters, said they would rather see Miliband in Number Ten.

The move will leave Labour as the only mainstream party resisting demands for voters to have a say on the country's links with Brussels.

People were too hasty to attribute Labour's unexpectedly good performance in the 2017 election to a surge in young voters, researchers said.

A declared Conservative columnist in Tueuday's FT — Janan Ganesh — is saying that a weak economy is more likely to result in a Conservative win at the general election since voters would be more inclined to risk another Labour government if the economy is performing strongly.

Despite uncertainty about effectiveness, it can at least be said that Labour are using a strategy rooted in an understanding of the voters that can be justified with the survey evidence.

John McDonnell says voters can expect to see «no increases in income tax for middle or low earners» in Labour's election manifesto.

The picture is much the same when Labour voters are faced with the prospect of a Liberal Democrat / SNP battle; while 34 % say they would switch to the Liberal Democrats, 27 % say they would back the SNP.

63 % of Labour voters, 52 % of Liberal Democrat voters and 25 % of Conservative voters said they would be more likely to vote for such a party.

«The Euro elections in June give Labour voters their last say on the leadership before the general election,» Frank Field says.

While the right of the party have lectured Corbyn and the left for the past year about talking - down to voters, being «out of touch» and not understanding ordinary people's views, here Smith is saying he believes Labour should go into the 2020 election telling the 52 % of Leave voters they are simply wrong.

A Scottish Labour source said: «Jim would normally be out knocking doors and speaking to voters but we've not seen him for months.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

Ed Balls says Labour has been talking to voters about the issues that matter on ITV News: immigration, the NHS and jobs for young people.

Not that many SNP voters indicate a willingness to consider voting Labour next May, even though a majority (53 %) say that they have voted Labour at some point in the past.

In these seats the ground campaign looks quite even, if not exactly intense: 15 % of voters said they had heard locally from Labour, and 14 % from UKIP.

SNP Campaign Director John Swinney said: «This is an encouraging poll which shows a significant lead for the SNP amongst older people and a further fall in support for Labour amongst some of their traditional voters — highlighting just how far Labour have come from their founding principles.

A Com / Res poll for ITV on 30 April put UKIP 11 points ahead of Labour, with 38 % of voters saying they intend to vote for Nigel Farage's party at the European and local elections on 22 May.