Sentences with phrase «most labour voters»

The Times chooses to lead its report of the poll by highlighting the Populus finding that most Labour voters have decided that Brown is a «loser».

At the moment, most Labour voters I've spoken to were actually quite appalled and / or angry by his stated position and say that if that's the case it's pointless voting Labour.

Well, despite Brown's popularity most Labour voters still seem to think that Blair would be better at the top job, by a margin of 56 % to 37 %.

Given the potentially economically catastrophic vote to leave the EU last Thursday, an outcome that most Labour Party members, and most Labour voters opposed; and which was opposed by the overwhelming majority of affiliated trade unions; then it is essential that the Labour Party quickly develops a policy of how to deal with the fall out.

And as the campaign wore on, he appeared to win back the support of most Labour voters in 2015, plus some Liberal Democrats and Greens.

Most Labour voters and MPs voted to remain and they are just being ignored.

The polling tells us that most Labour voters would like to see an in / out referendum on the EU (by 52 % to 29 % in this YouGov poll for example.)

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.

The SNP would junk all attempts to reform the welfare system — even though they have the support of most voters in this country, and indeed most Labour voters.

However, most Labour voters dislike the plans to stop people under 21 from claiming housing benefit and — the big one, in terms of the amount of money it would save — keeping benefits for working people at the present level rather than letting them rise with inflation.

Clegg is simply despised by most Labour voters and it wouldn't do Ed any good with them, some of whom are not yet too sure about him.

Most Labour voters didn't prioritise Brexit - but a fifth of them did.

The absence of the threat of spontaneous superpower conflict takes some of the urgency and purism out of the nuclear debate; the economic context has been comprehensively reconfigured by Thatcherism; and on Europe almost all Labour MPs, including the leader, and most Labour voters, supported membership.

most Labour voters didn't vote on the basis of Brexit - only around a fifth of surveyed Labour voters named Brexit as their most important election issue

Most Labour voters voted Remain, therefore Labour should fight against hard Brexit - but Brexit isn't the key issue for most Remain voters, so Labour shouldn't worry about Brexit.

Large majorities think many public sector workers should be given pay rises above one per cent, and most Labour voters think their party should support strike action if pay demands are not met, according to my latest poll.

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?).

One morning early in July, after it became clear that Owen Smith hoped to challenge Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership but before most Labour voters had any real idea who he was, Smith set out his position in a brief series of tweets.

But although most Labour voters backed us we did not convince millions of natural Labour voters especially in those parts of the country left behind.

Not exact matches

Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.

Until now, even the most eager, and unemployed, floating voter is unlikely to have seen even one of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat leaders up close and personal, let alone, as they will be in the debates, not speechifying but tested and challenged live by their fiercest rivals.

Labour lost because they: a) broke manifold electoral promises b) lied shamelessly to the people and parliament c) engaged in industrial - scale corruption and lame cover - up d) wilfully enraged their newest supporters e) eschewed democracy at every opportunity f) treated the electorate like idiots g) alienated a vast constituency of voters with strong personal interest in the well - being of our servicemen h) inherited the most benign of economies and recklessly maxed out the public debt i) devoted inordinate time and effort to policies based on immature class war antics j) engaged in open internal dissent while being too cowardly to take any definitive action k) offered a wholly negative electoral campaign Unless confidence is restored in these areas, Labour will continue to be despised.

The Tories may have polled two million more votes than Labour, but at least half of that difference can be attributed to differential turnouts, and most of the rest to missing voters.

The attitude of most core Labour voters to the Labour Party probably could not be published on here.

Most of whose votes were anti Labour / Conservative Politics, so many are based on lies, and there is no line whatsoever to excluding the the voter from the governing process.

«Most of the Muslim voters I've talked to will vote for Sadiq, but they haven't warmed to him as a person,» one inner London Labour councillor who has been pounding the streets for him tells me.

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.

He can either make clear to his supporters that there will be no return to the days of lavish spending, or he can fight an election knowing that most voters do not believe Labour have learned their lessons, and that many of his potential voters fear Labour would once again borrow and spend more than the country can afford.

The challenge for Labour is that most splitting occurs between ideologically adjacent parties, and because less partisan Labour voters are more likely than Conservatives to split their vote.

He argues that to win the next election, Ed Miliband needs to make clear to his supporters that there will be no return to the days of lavish spending, or fight an election knowing that most voters do not believe Labour have learned their lessons, and that many of his potential voters fear Labour would once again borrow and spend more than the country can afford.

#BESFactCheck data suggests that most voters do not support a coalition — 56 % of voters would prefer to see either a Conservative or Labour majority government to either of them being involved in another coalition.

The most effective vote winning policies are ones which are popular on their own, but which also tell a bigger story about the party's values and are consistent with their other policies - opposing the Iraq war and top - up fees were both popular policies, but also clearly signalled to disillusioned Labour voters that the Lib Dems shared their values as a centre - left party of peace and public services.

While three quarters of swing voters thought Labour must accept a large part of the blame for the economic situation, most in the Labour movement disagreed.

«Having sensible views on immigration and defence is ethical and doesn't turn me into a raging right winger or closet racist and is probably in line with what most potential Labour voters want.»

Most voters — including two fifths of those who say they would vote Labour tomorrow — fear Labour would spend and borrow more than the country can afford, and has not learned the right lessons from its time in government.

To be frank his views made what should have been an easy decision into a difficult one.I don't trust Smith and will back Jeremy again but I am concerned.Having sensible views on immigration and defence is ethical and doesn't turn me into a raging right winger or closet racist and is probably in line with what most potential Labour voters want.I'd like to think that more will join our party and that Corbyn will continue democratizing it, giving us the opportunity to shape policy ourselves.

Electorally, Labour also stands to lose most from pursuing such a xenophobic line as it will alienate ethnic minority voters who are a major component of the most deprived sections of the working class, and are a core constituency of its support in most metropolitan areas.

They are by far the most damning of any voters when it comes to the coalition's performance: just 9 per cent of them say the government is doing well, compared to 16 per cent of Labour voters generally and 39 per cent of all voters in the constituency.

For one thing, New Labour's triangulation strategy, which saw it adopting distinctly right - wing policies, was admired by the City of London, industry and most of the Westminster media but actually served to alienate many voters.

Most of the 2010 Liberal Democrat voters are intending to vote Labour (27 %) in the 2015 general election.

There are doubts about the breadth of Corbyn's appeal given his cultural identity as a left - wing metropolitan liberal representing the constituency of Islington North, allegedly «a world away» from the concerns of most uncommitted Labour voters.

The ChEx Factor: Economic Leadership In Hard Times explores how voters see the economy, what most concerns them, how they think the government is handling things, and what — if anything — would be different if Labour were in power.

While swing voters wanted Labour to acknowledge its mistakes, most in the movement wanted to see the new leader defend the party's record.

Polling recently published by Policy Exchange shows that a Labour shift on immigration and welfare would be the single most important issues to win back Labour swing voters.

I'm not wasting much time on Lords reform, which has excited so much media interest, largely because the very public feuding between coalition factions, peers and the Labour party in recent days confirm the hunch that it isn't going to get far, doesn't deserve to do so, and that most voters won't notice or care.

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.

Asked how he could possibly ask Labour voters to vote for him when he spent most of the last week encouraging a Labour candidate to stand against him, Mr Davis replied: «I'm asking everybody and we've had support from Tories, of course, Liberal activists, people who say «I've voted Labour all my life» and - most interestingly of all - people who said I've never taken an interest in politics all my life but this has galvanised my interest.»

The Conservatives have overtaken Labour as the party voters would most like to see run the NHS and the education system, a new poll reveals.

But a «softer» Corbynite Labour leader would surely need to publicly detach themselves from the most electorally toxic aspects of Corbyn's leadership and legacy in order to make headway with the voters.

The irony here is that for once, Corbyn is far more in touch with the public and with the kind of voters Labour needs to win back than his parliamentary party is (the most recent ICM poll, for example, suggests that the voters Labour's lost since 2015 break about 4:3 for Leave).