Sentences with phrase «labour voters who»

Urging Labour voters who had backed independence to support his vision for the party, he claimed Labour had «so much more in common with [those who] voted «Yes» in the referendum than we do with many of the political leaders who campaigned for «No» on the 18th of September».

It's possible Corbyn did enthuse a lot of the «core» Labour voters who might not have bothered for Miliband.

«I must be one of the 87 per cent of Labour voters who support being in the single market and customs union.»

I suspect this slight increase in Labour support (if existent) may be due to an increase in Labour voters who say they will actually turn up and vote rather than a switch between parties.

She's set her stall out to capture the millions of traditional Labour voters who are sick to death of the self - absorbed narcissism and far - left idiocies of Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

In his victory speech, Mark Reckless said the large number of Labour voters who switched their support to him showed «the radical tradition, which has stood and spoken for the working class, has found a new home in UKIP»

Scottish Labour voters who opted for yes defected to the SNP en masse: this time, the fear goes, Ukip could be the beneficiaries.

Polls have tightened in recent weeks as the leave camp has begun to ramp up its warnings that immigration can only be controlled from outside the EU and has made personal attacks on Cameron's character, a message that may appeal to traditional Labour voters who want to punish the prime minister.

Speaking before he arrived in Glasgow, Miliband admitted that he knew Labour had to «reach out to Scotland» and ask the hundreds of thousands of Labour voters who backed independence to «come home».

And the winner of last night's by - election in Rochester, UKIP's Mark Reckless, said the large number of Labour voters who switched their support to him showed «the radical tradition, which has stood and spoken for the working class, has found a new home in UKIP».

It could go any way — BNP and UKIP voters are presumably more likely to move to the Tories than elsewhere, or the other votes may drift towards the Liberal Democrats, the traditional repository for voters disillusioned with both main parties, or these may merely be protesting Labour voters who will return to voting Labour once Tony Blair himself is replaced (or, of course, things could be different this time and the high level of «other support could persist into the next election — it is impossible to tell).

It also showed an increase in the number of 2015 Labour voters who now say they will vote Labour again - up to 82 % from 78 % a week ago.

Of the Labour voters who defected to the SNP in 2015, three - quarters believed Nicola Sturgeon's party had the policies to redistribute income from rich to poor; less than half felt the same about Labour.

All those Labour voters who supported Brexit can get stuffed.

However, that's not so with regard to the many who have stopped voting — turnouts are now permanently in the mid-60's, and its Labour voters or former Labour voters who appear to make up most of the missing voters.

I personally think the AV referendum is lost because Nick Clegg (and I mean Nick Clegg personally) has alienated masses of Labour voters who might otherwise have supported it.

It's Nice Ed's coming back he was at stoke after all, Ed dropped the triangulation line that Blair liked, funny as he actually appealed to both Daivd Owen, Maurice Glasman and Tony benn in 2010 ′ but the triangulation of middle / working class votes has gone that it's not even Left / Right anymore, and the dozen or so policies that unite ex Labour voters who vote Libdem, and the ones who vote Ukip can be summed up in, ignore Soctland and Northern Ireland politics concentrate on the economy, Defence, freedom of speech and women's rights,

Significantly, even among Labour voters who backed Leave, 37 % said they want Corbyn to support permanent single market and customs union membership, compared with just 26 % who did not.

In the mean time the third of Labour voters who voted leave will drift either to non-voting or UKIP.

If Jeremy Corbyn is able to say on Thursday to those 50 % of Labour voters who don't yet know what Labour's position is «we are unequivocally for», that can only be a good thing because Labour voters - whether it be because of the social chapter or our economic gains, never mind our place in the world - have a huge amount to gain, and a huge amount to lose if we get this decision wrong.»

Labour voters who don't choose the Labour Party as the best party on a particular issue choose the Conservatives on five issues as better than the Lib Dems (eg cutting the deficit, dealing with crime and defending Britain's interests in Europe) while they only prefer the LibDems on three issues including protecting the environment.

Most analysts agree that if McMahon holds Oldham as expected (albeit with a majority much reduced from Meacher's 14,738), it will be largely thanks to the 20 % of the constituents who are British Pakistani or British Bangladeshi, traditional Labour voters who are far more likely than their white counterparts to turn out and vote.

The party's political problem has now taken on historical significance as Labour voters who are worried about immigration are backing Brexit, putting Britain's membership of the European Union on the brink.

Jeremy Corbyn must do more to win back traditional Labour voters who have switched to Ukip and the SNP, according to one of his key supporters.

The proportion of Labour voters who say they will actually vote is down 2 points to 49 %.

Landless peasant insulting ex labour voters who went to ukip, you sound like those labour members who 33 years ago couldn't understand why the working class voted tory

If Labour was «a more pluralist party offering a more pluralist politics in tune with a more pluralist Britain» as Labour's Shadow Welsh Secretary would like, we'd be urging all Labour voters who don't live in Mid and West Wales to give their regional votes to Plaid.

There liberal minded people voted for us in 1992, There are plenty of labour voters who voted for us in 1992..

UKIP hoped to appeal to Labour voters who had deserted their party to support Brexit in the June referendum.

The party leadership prefers to listen to them rather than the 62 % of Labour voters who voted remain.

by the way even if 80 % of all the addtional votes labour needs to win an election came from ukip, and labour relied on the 37 % of labour voters who voted Brexit, it would mean that more than half the people labour would need for a overall majority in 2020 voted for leave in 2016.

In contrast no less than 87 % of those 2010 Labour voters who voted No in May are still backing the party.

Do their doubts about the party's economic competence mean these are soft Labour voters who will be peeled away as the election looms?

While the inquiry could not rule out a modest late swing towards the Conservatives, initial claims that the polling errors were due to «shy Tories» (respondents who deliberately misreported their intentions) or «lazy Labour» (Labour voters who said they'd vote but ultimately didn't) did not stand up to scrutiny.

In other words, it is pretty much only Labour voters who think that the party retains credibility on the economy.

As I have argued elsewhere, as a matter of electoral strategy, the Labour Party must signal to the millions of traditional Labour voters who vote to leave the EU in June that, after the referendum, there is still a place for them in the Labour Party.

We now know that these larger poll numbers were predicated on large numbers of potential voters who were powerfully demotivated; witness the Labour voters who stayed at home at the 2009 European elections.

All those Labour voters who voted no, either to stick it to Clegg or because they wanted proportional representation.

Anti-EU labour voters who vote Leave likely to switch permanently to UKIP after referendum if Labour backs Cameron.

The 2010 Labour voters who voted Yes and now intend to vote SNP are noticeably different from other 2010 Labour voters in their responses to a variety of BES questions, but they particularly stand out in two principle respects.

However, I predict that Labour's unwillingness to engage with a left - wing Euroscepticism could lead to the alienation of the roughly one - quarter to one - third of Labour voters who oppose British EU membership, leading many of them to turn away from the party at the next general election.

In contrast, of the 65 % of 2010 Labour voters who voted NO in the referendum, 75 % stayed with Labour in 2015, while only 13 % voted SNP.

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.

Mr Theophile, a Labour voter who runs a «social business» selling electric - powered eco-bikes with the help of troubled teenagers to keep them from a life of crime, said he was glad to have helped.

Not exact matches

I clearly need to listen more to my wife, who thought that Brexit would happen, that Trump would win and that the UK media was materially underestimating Labour's support among British voters.

The link between Labour and many of its traditional voters — who defied the party leadership to vote Leave — was also fractured, perhaps permanently.

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.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

The winner becomes the one who can minimise the damage: Cameron by pouring scorn on Labour's record, the opposition by reminding voters of the pain of spending cuts.

Endean, who is standing for Ukip in Plymouth, retweeted an image of rescued migrants with the caption: «Labour's new floating voters.