Sentences with phrase «labours election strategy»

It was in fact a major failure of Labours election strategy not to attack UKIP (especially in the North) and expose their Thatcherite ideology.....

It has been argued that Ed Miliband's focus on inequality was one of the failings of the UK Labour election strategy.

Douglas Alexander, the man with the plan behind the Labour election strategy, has brushed off Nick Clegg's meteoric rise in recent election polls in a «Twinterview» with Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru - Murthy.

Not exact matches

Labour's strategy in the Scottish Parliament election is clear.

Our panel discussions will cover a broad and critical range of concerns such as welfare, One Nation Labour, election strategy and the contribution of Catholic Social Teaching.

[5][6] He subsequently was Ed Miliband's chair of general election strategy for the Labour 2015 general election campaign.

These latest polls may just be a blip but Labour's strategy for this election is still not entirely robust.

For New Labour, election strategy was based on the insights set out by economist Anthony Downs in his 1957 book An Economic Theory of Democracy.

I've just returned from a remarkable fringe meeting at the party's annual autumn conference, in which Ian Dexter, a Ukip member, former candidate in county and district elections and potential parliamentary candidate for 2015, outlined his strategy for winning over Labour voters.

Today's speech, and its accompanying slogan, finally cements in place the Labour strategy at the general election.

Firstly, they were a crude tool used to create press coverage which emphasised the Tories pro-business agenda; this is important to a prime minister shaping his election strategy around Labour's «recklessness» and «anti-business» agenda.

Speaking after the ballot count, Labour leader Ed Miliband explained that his party's strategy in the run up to next year's general election is to «focus on the economy and standards of living».

What ever happens after the next election, Labour needs to develop a strategy to radically de-bureaucratize the welfare state, so that every citizen can construct their own vision of the good life, and people don't feel subordinated to paternalist bureaucracies.

He also strongly criticised the party's strategy at the general election, claiming Labour's welfare policies «offended the British people's sense of fairness».

And won't the Tories cast Labour as the party of mass immigration, shattering Labour's election strategy of neutering the issue by quietly accepting hard Brexit?

The British Election Study found that Labour gained more Leave voters from other parties than it lost to the Tories, including 18 percent of 2015 Ukip voters - a proportion that must have been lower in safe Tory seats, but correspondingly higher in the safe Labour heartlands where scooping up Ukip voters was the Tories» entire strategy for success.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has named the Labour Party's five key election pledges and said keeping the country on the «road to recovery» is central to his strategy, as Gary Gibbon reports.

Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary and Labour's general election strategy chair, has been giving interviews this morning about the byelection results.

In his maiden speech in the Lords, Labour's former election strategy chief Spencer Livermore said it was a «curious anomaly» that the bill would leave trade unions as the «only organisation in Britain prohibited from harnessing technology to modernise their own democratic procedures».

Labour is to discuss election strategies with Barack Obama's staff - while the coalition government hires one.

Cameron's election strategy has been to hope that an economic recovery would lead to Labour voters switching over their support.

Shadow communities secretary Jon Trickett then gave a presentation on Labour's strategy for the forthcoming elections, before the MPs had to leave at 6.45 for a Commons vote.

«Labour's tactic of sending in the heavies from London to work over the SNP has not only totally compromised [first minister Jack] McConnell's election strategy but it has demonstrated that they, like him, lack confidence in his ability to lead,» Mr Salmond said.

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Though we have about 1000 days until the next election, Plaid Cymru have offered the Labour party a deal by way of a strategy should we find ourselves with a hung parliament in 2015.

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They could demand a change in strategy, picking up the insight of election sage John Curtice, who notes that most Labour voters are remainers and it is to them Corbyn needs to appeal.

Under the leadership of Charles Kennedy, the party had staked out a commitment to higher taxation and investment in public services, a strategy that many thought placed them to the left of Labour at the 2005 general election.

Former UK foreign secretary Jack Straw has told BBC HARDtalk that Labour's decision not to talk about the political threat of UK Independence Party (UKIP) in their election strategy was wrong.

The defeat also calls into question Labour's entire election strategy, as the party made the NHS, and in particular the threat to maternity and A&E services at West Cumberland Hospital, the central theme of its campaign.

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.

The interview, which came after Corbyn refused to answer questions about a potential early general election from an ITV reporter earlier in the day, sowed confusion about Labour's Brexit strategy, which had appeared clearer since a shadow Brexit team led by Keir Starmer was appointed last month.

Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, also rejected suggestions there were any «wobbles» over Ed Miliband's leadership, as party officials insisted the key lesson from Thursday's byelections was that David Cameron no longer has a strategy to win a majority at the next election.

Labour failed to have by - election strategy in Richmond, linked to its lack of clarity over Brexit.

Not only has Labour's chairman of election strategy had his power consolidated; he also appears to have won the battle over whether Labour should focus on its core vote or aspiration.

Apparently, this «35 per cent strategy» involves securing the 29 per cent of voters who supported Labour at the last election, with a further 6 percentage points carved off the Lib Dems — and they think it should be enough for victory.

The biggest reason is less to do with a solid Labour win in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by - election, or anything the Labour leader has yet done to set out his stall for the year ahead, which will be his task at Saturday's Fabian conference, but is rather the stark difficulty in identifying a plausible re-election strategy for David Cameron.

All three leaders from the main parties have hit the campaign trail across Britain today, with Labour leader Gordon Brown tearing up his election strategy and heading to Wales in a bid to win over the anti-Tory majority.

they think by opposing AS and the majority government is a good strategy, i think not, they lost enough labour voters at the last election because of the same tactics i can see them lose a lot more if they stick to the status quo.

Douglas Alexander, the shadow foreign secretary and Labour's general election strategy chair, has been responding to the results for his party on the airwaves this morning.

Back to the BBC, where David Dimbleby has just asked John Mann if he wanted Douglas Alexander to be replaced as Labour's general election strategy chair.

The Labour leadership election is starting to resemble Tony Blair's «masochism strategy».

For Welsh Labour, a key part of its election strategy has been distancing itself from the leader of the national party, Jeremy Corbyn.

The hatred leads them to neglect alternative strategies, such as working with Rahman to implement the Labour Party manifesto (on which Labour and Rahman both stood for election) or influence his policies — although in other parts of the country Labour co-operates with other political parties to secure improvements, even from Tory administrations.

It is evident from the election's outcome that Labour's campaign strategy was an abject failure.

The difference between these two strategies could be the difference between Labour winning and losing the election.

As Pete Hoskin explains here, team Miliband's secret plan for the next election is called the «35 per cent strategy» — because 35 per cent of the vote is all that Labour needs to win in 2015.

Settling the election campaign team is seen as a precursor to settling campaign strategy itself, and follows fears by some that the party would run a «core vote strategy» or seek to recycle outdated past political dividing lines between Labour investment and Tory cuts.

While doubts will persist on the effectiveness of the party's overall strategy, and Bradford West might be a prologue to greater disappointments in the May elections, it is hard to criticise the work ethic of many at Labour's top table.

Labour's core demographics are far, far less likely to show up and with a small Labour party membership with a virtually non-existent get out the vote strategy the Tories would nearly always win competitive elections by default.