Sentences with phrase «snp expectations»

Even there, though, there are some signs of SNP expectations being scaled back.

Not exact matches

Such is the weight of expectation on Nicola Sturgeon's shoulders that failure by the SNP to win each and every one of the Scottish Parliament's 73 constituencies (leaving other parties to pick up seats decided under a proportional representation system) would be seen as some kind of failure.

If the SNP is to live up to those (unfairly high) expectations, the party will have to find some momentum.

The SNP are expected to retain the majority they won in 2011 contrary to expectations and the electoral system in use.

Normally, the 14,416 majority would seem insurmountable, but with the SNP claiming extraordinary gains in the May elections and riding a wave of expectation since then Labour strategists are concerned about the result.

Both Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP, however, still have to satisfy high expectations when it comes to day - to - day government, the first minister's personal pledge to close the attainment gap in the state school sector, and the obvious desire among many of her members and supporters for another independence referendum.

I've been talking to Professor Jon Yonge of the University of Liverpool, who's surprised about the scale of the Conservative success, the «sheer scale of the Lib Dem meltdown» and the «triumph foretold» of the SNP — which has nevertheless «exceeded expectations».

But the referendum could not have been avoided after the SNP defied all expectations and won a majority in the Scottish Parliament on a platform of a referendum and a campaign for independence.

As discussed above, we currently find little robust evidence that attitudes towards the SNP and expectations about a hung parliament resulted in gains for the Conservatives from Ukip or in vote losses for Labour from former Lib Dems.