Sentences with phrase «snp figures»

Labour and SNP figures consider legal action against former PM to ban him from office over role in Iraq war

Some senior SNP figures considered - wrongly - that a good idea might be to attack their opponents over the issue.

The controversy over BBC coverage comes as a senior SNP figure suggested the abuse aimed at JK Rowling was written by members of the British intelligence agencies.

Not exact matches

Indeed, as figure 2 shows, pro-independence voters were almost as united in their support for the SNP in Westminster in 2010, when they won only 20 per cent of the vote, as they are now.

Figure 1 confirms that the proportion of Scots intending to vote for the SNP in the General Election has closely tracked support for independence throughout the last Parliament.

This is something the SNP have been calling for and it's believed other senior Labour figures are sympathetic to the idea.

The SNP's Mhairi Black has dubbed the latest figures from foodbank charity The Trussell Trust «shameful» ahead of her attempt to change the benefits sanction regime.

As Figure 3 shows, SNP voters are highly likely to believe that there will be another independence referendum in the next 10 years.

These figures suggest that for Labour to win back the voters they have lost to the SNP since 2010, they should take a strong positive stance of further devolution and more generally be seen to stand up for Scotland's interests.

Dugdale's proposal aims to save the union from what she sees as a UK Tory government and Scottish SNP government both intent on pulling it apart — albeit even some notable Labour figures such as former first minister Henry McLeish have said they would back a Yes vote in a second Scottish independence referendum.

If the swing since 2010 implied by these figures were to be replicated everywhere the SNP would sweep the board with 54 of Scotland's 59 seats, while Labour would have just four.

Looking at BES 0 to 10 like - dislike scales for the party leaders, the Yes and SNP recruits from Labour gave Miliband an average score of just 2.2, a figure not statistically significantly greater than the 1.1 average score they gave Cameron.

Former SNP leader Alex Salmond has criticised Murphy for hiring the «divisive» figure of Blair McDougall, the head of Better Together, the pro-union campaign, as his chief of policy.

New figures show that Labour is considerably further behind the SNP with an age - group that is planning to turn out in force on May 7.

The SNP's remarkable achievement of winning 56 of Scotland's 59 Westminster seats in the General Election cemented Sturgeon's position as the dominant figure in Scottish politics.

Leader Tim Farron is a spirited campaigner, an indomitable figure in Westminster who strives bravely to look on the bright side as rival MPs, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and SNP, groan audibly whenever he climbs to his feet to speak in the House of Commons.

Senior figures were stunned when, two weeks before the election, Clegg suddenly suggested to the FT that he would not form a coalition with Labour if it involved any arrangement with the SNP.

On these figures, the 325th MP, counting in from left or right, will represent Labour, but only just: a four - seat swing from Labour (or the SNP) to the Lib Dems, Conservatives or UKIP would give the median parliamentary seat to the Liberal Democrats.

Taking this into account, I estimate that our overall figures would give Labour 289, Conservative 267, SNP 43 and Lib Dems 28.

The same applies in many seats for the Liberal Democrats) but for the record on a uniform swing these figures would result in the SNP winning all but two seats in Scotland.

In the Scottish sample the figures were Labour 35 %, SNP 30 %, Conservative 16 % and Lib Dem 13 %.

So far this year CCHQ has raised # 11.4 m compared with Labour's # 8.3 m, the SNP's # 739,000, the Liberal Democrats» # 483,000 and Ukip's # 432,000 — according to the latest figures from the Electoral Commission, giving the party a strong head - start in any early election campaign.

Holyrood constituency figures are CON 16 %, LAB 33 %, LDEM 16 %, SNP 28 % — the article doesn't refer to any Holyrood regional voting intentions.

Although the collapse at the hands of the SNP in Scotland was widely expected, the party failed to win some of its key target seats in England and also endured defeats for key figures such as shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

[121] In Scotland, support for the SNP continued to grow with polling figures in late March reaching 54 %, with the Labour vote continuing to decline accordingly, [122] while Labour retained their (reduced) lead in Wales, polling at 39 % by the end of the campaign, to 26 % for the Conservatives, 13 % for Plaid Cymru, 12 % for UKIP and 6 % for the Liberal Democrats.

Figure 1 shows how at the beginning of the period February - March 2014 a bare majority of Yes voters intended to vote for the SNP, and around 20 % still intended to vote Labour.

Roughly ninety percent of «Yes» voters voted for the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2015, including most of those who had still intended to vote Labour early in 2014 (see figure 1).

The figures put the SNP on 33 per cent - up 15 per cent from their 2005 result - and Labour on 29 per cent, down 11 per cent.

Topline figures are CON 17 %, LAB 20 %, LDEM 5 %, SNP 54 % (tabs).

Privately, Scottish Labour figures believe that this was because the SNP was spooked by internal data showing its voters defecting.

Figures from last September showed that of those who had switched from Labour to the SNP, 75 % thought the SNP backed policies to redistribute income from the rich to the poor, compared to just 48 % who thought Labour backed redistribution.

«Tory plans for a hard Brexit risk damaging Scotland's economy — but the SNP government's own figures show that independence would be considerably worse,» she said.

After significant electoral defeats at the hands of the SNP in 2015 and 2016, and splits over Corbyn's leadership bid last year, senior figures in both wings of the Scottish party say they are keen to preserve unity during the leadership election.

The SNP won't wipe out the Labour Party completely in Scotland but will get them down to single figures.

The SNP's Drew Hendry cashed in on Tory discomfort, but his Leader, Ian Blackford, raised the Cambridge Analytica saga, detailing the links between the company and Conservative Party figures.

Following the SNP Government's announcement of a referendum on Scottish independence she was a key figure in Better Together, the cross-party movement that sought to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom.

Estimate of first preference votes across Edinburgh South West — difficult as large ward boundaries tend to be split between multiple constituencies — I've taken all of Fountainbridge / Craiglockhart, Pentland Hills, Sighthill / Gorgie and an estimated 50 % of Fairmilehead / Colinton — this would give estimated figures of Con 35 %, SNP 28 %, Lab 19 %, Grn 13 %, LD 5 %

The Tories have now compiled a dossier - analysing speeches and interviews by Labour MPs during the election campaign - revealing the 101 times senior party figures have refused to rule out going into power on the back of SNP support.

Ms Hepburn has worked for a number of senior figures in the SNP including Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Perth MP Pete Wishart.

SNPs are genetic variations — one letter replaced by another — that scientists are using increasingly to figure out which occur more or less often in people with a certain condition or disease.

This SNP is also within a region associated with body size in this study (near HMGA2), although the strongest signal for ear position occurs nearly 0.5 Mb upstream, near MSRB3 (Figure S3).

We looked for SNPs associated with breeds fixed for floppy or erect ears, and found a single region on CFA10 that is likely responsible for the difference in ear type (Figure 3B).

One of these SNPs resulted in a premature stop codon within Sevir.7 G140700 (+1860 from the transcriptional start site; Figure 3B), which encodes the syntenic ortholog of Dwarf11 (D11) in rice, the cytochrome P450 724B involved in BR biosynthesis (Tanabe et al., 2005; Sakamoto et al., 2006).

We can not rule out the influence of other SNPs fixed in the mutant populations on seemingly unrelated phenotypes, such as the elongated panicle phenotype displayed by bsl1 - 2 (Figure 1B), since several rounds of backcrossing were not performed.

Figure 2 from the paper provides a colorful view of the annotation breakdown of lead (associated) SNPs, variants in LD with lead SNPs (r ^ 2 > 0.8), and European - only variants in LD.

As the gold standard for all four samples we used SNPs found by Affymetrix SNP6 arrays as an independent and well - established SNP calling technology (see Figure S10 and Figure S11 for an overview on the distribution of array SNPs in different regions of the genome).

No wonder the SNP hid these figures until after the election.

«These figures show that the SNP government hasn't been giving our schools the investment they need to deliver investment in the estate.

Iain Gray, Scottish Labour's education spokesman, congratulated students on the said the record figures but urged SNP ministers to address the concerns of teachers.

The SNP minister Mr Russell said: «Today's figures show that, in line with our agreement with our partners in teaching unions and local government, they have delivered our commitment to maintain teacher numbers.