Sentences with phrase «leave voting areas»

Theresa May's Conservatives hope to pick up most of the benefit, particularly in Leave voting areas.

Not exact matches

«Watch out for Remain - voting areas swinging towards Labour and Leave - voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.

Simon Stevens will in a speech on Wednesday reference Vote Leave's contentious claim that Brexit will give the UK government an extra # 350 million a week to spend on areas like the NHS.

82,394 people in the area voted to leave, compared to just 51,930.

To provide something of a bellwether of how voting may go, HSBC's chief UK economist Simon Wells and his team have provided a useful table showing some of the key areas that could help determine whether Britain stays in or leaves the EU.

«Depending on how Europe responds to a vote to leave, the financial stress expected in the UK could spill over into the euro area.

While the ushers worked the minister spoke: «If I were to tell you who to vote for, then we could lose our tax - exempt status — But I will say this... This handout lists the candidates in our area on the left side and their record on abortion on the right.

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

«It could be a positive experience for Britain if we get it right, but if we get it wrong it'll be a negative one and it carries huge risks to the economy — including areas that voted to leave much more than others, like my own.

To overcome this problem we have, on behalf of the BBC, been beavering away at establishing which local authorities appear to be more likely to record a relatively strong vote for Remain, which are the ones where Leave can be expected to do relatively well, and which are the council areas where the two sides could be expected to be equally matched.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

Second, Britain is far more pro-trade and internationalist than its vote to leave the world's biggest free - trade area suggests.

Moreover, the report also showed that those areas in the North of England which had voted most strongly to leave would hurt the most.

In the EU referendum, Essex voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, with all 14 District Council areas voting to leave, the smallest margin being in Uttlesford.

In spite of May's claim that she wanted to «bring our country back together», the results underlined sharp divisions between England's towns and cities and between leave and remain - voting areas.

More subtly, for a number of reasons (including to a greater or lesser extent, Brexit) Labour has generally been gaining votes from the young and those in high social class jobs and areas which voted remain in 2016, while losing votes from older voters, those in lower social class occupations and those who voted leave.

The area of the capital with the strongest Conservative vote, Edinburgh Pentlands was held by the late David McLetchie until 2011 when Gordon MacDonald won the seat for the SNP leaping from third place in 2007, leaving the Conservatives over 1000 votes behind.

There's no way of finding out how the people who signed this petition voted, but if signatories were found right across the country — in areas that voted Leave as well as areas that voted Remain — it might provide some indirect evidence that Leave voters were changing their minds.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

Finally you'll be able to see at - a-glance whether your area voted Leave or Remain in last year's referendum and how strongly your area felt we should be in or out of the EU.

17 out of Wales's 22 local authority areas voted leave.

Sir Vince Cable, leader of the Liberal Democrats «We enjoyed a number of gains in areas that voted heavily to leave the EU, including Sunderland and Hull, as well as Remain - leaning areas that commentators would have expected us to do well in.

In Redditch, another Leave - voting area, Labour struggled, losing three seats while the Conservatives picked up four to take control of the council.

The mass defection of the Ukip vote to the Tories in Leave areas could store up huge problems for Theresa May, placing the prime minister under even more pressure to deliver the kind of clean Brexit that her new backers, the ex-Ukippers, crave.

At these local elections, the Conservatives benefitted from this restructuring of UKIP supporters, gaining Basildon, bringing Dudley to an even split with Labour and almost decimating Labour's leads in North - East Lincolnshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth — all of which were heavily Leave - voting areas.

Mr Blair said: «One of the things that I heard from Jeremy Corbyn earlier today is this notion that successive governments have let down the people in some of the Labour areas that are voting Leave.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

Hours after he left the Senate Thursday morning, Murphy made numerous national television appearances to discuss the two areas where Democrats forced a vote: banning people on government terrorism watch lists from buying guns and expanding background checks.

Vote Leave campaigners have suggested Britain could withdraw from the EU and remain part of a free - trade area, with tariff - free access to EU markets; but Osborne and Darling argue in their letter that they have not explained how they could strike such a deal.

The Brexit debate has amplified the divide between Labour's metropolitan, liberal strongholds and its traditional heartlands in post-industrial areas of Britain, many of which voted strongly to leave.

This could permit voters to vote for one or both parties thereby maximising the vote for both without any sacrifice of political programme, and without leaving areas un-contested.

I suspect the area covering the pre-1997 Bristol North West may have voted Leave in 2016.

And then we have a Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn hoping to reconnect with those areas that voted Leave.

Depressingly true, unless the EU referendum, causes us to unite as inner London and the Corbyn areas vote to leave

But, as last year's general election showed, politics is pretty volatile at the moment and observers will be looking to see if there is a «Brexit effect» in areas which voted Leave in 2016.

«A voter that has left his or former residential area should approach INEC office in his or her new area for transfer of voter card to enable him or her vote in the new residing area.

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the Tories were performing relatively well in areas with a substantial Leave vote in the 2016 referendum, where they are picking up votes from UKIP, which did not stand candidates in many areas, while Labour were performing better in places where the Remain vote was stronger and with a higher proportion of younger voters.

Redhill, Reigate South, Preston, Merstham and Horley would have probably have had most of the Leave vote, with the other areas being remain I expected it to be close.

Not least of the reasons for this divergence is that UKIP performed best in 2014 in Leave - voting areas.

Many people who are councillors in marginal areas, or have previously been in that position, know enough of history, or are old enough recall the 1980's, maybe they blame council election defeats of 1982, and the general elections on the Falklands, maybe they take credit for Andrew Mckintosh winning the GLC for livingstone in 1981, maybe they feel we lost in 1979 as it wasn't left wing enough, But they voted Corbyn and won't accept that we will lose by a mile in 2020 with him, even if we get half as any votes in the council elections over the next 3 years, as before, Various things can be done, Blue labour needs to work with Labour first, like compass before them, anti neo liberalism, felt Blair lost his way after his first 6 years, Yes progress has a large following and ability of resources, but since 2007 it's been redundant

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The right wing increases the scope and power of the federal government just as willy - nilly as the left does, mostly in the same areas with some differences in order to give people an excuse to keep voting.

Commenting on the uncertainty caused by the UK's vote to leave the EU, Ballheimer said: «The outlook is obviously more uncertain, but our business isn't overly well concentrated by either geography or practice area and because our clients are facing legal uncertainty and will need us to help them through it, I think our business is resilient.