Sentences with phrase «snp landslide»

Recent polling in Scotland suggests there will be a historic SNP landslide in the May election that would grievously damage Ed Miliband's chances of leading Labour back to power.

There will also be serious questions about the future of the Union, following an SNP landslide that has turned Scotland into a virtual one - party state.

Alistair Carmichael was the only Lib Dem MP to survive the SNP landslide in Scotland - 10 others lost their seats.

We end up paying to the rest of the country because England and Wales are on a knife - edge while the outcome of Scotland appears settled, it's just a question of how colossal the SNP landslide is, but it's good to sit back occasionally and gawp at the scale of the turnaround in Scottish politics since a year ago.

To prevent an SNP landslide, Labour needs to persuade far more Scots to warm to Mr Miliband and Mr Murphy, to fear Mr Cameron and go cool on Ms Sturgeon.

With the SNP landslide sweeping across Scotland, Labour candidate Kenny Selbie failed to follow in the ex-Chancellor's footsteps.

Katy Clark - former left - wing MP for North Ayrshire and Arran, hired as Corbyn's political secretary after losing out in the SNP landslide

Add to this the political and legislative workload involved in devolving further powers to Scotland — and potentially revisiting the Smith Commission proposals in the process due to the SNP landslide — while also crafting a working arrangement for English votes for English laws, and it's obvious that the government has more than enough to be going on with as far as constitutional politics is concerned.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

Meanwhile, an SNP landslide is expected in Scotland which would be hugely damaging for Labour and have major implications for the government formation process.

Not exact matches

The «sweetest victory» of the Conservatives, as David Cameron put it on May 8th, and the sweeping landslide victory of the SNP, winning all but three of the Scottish seats, were indeed shocking wake - up calls for all those concerned about British politics.

A separate poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft found the Lib Dem's economic spokesperson Danny Alexander is also set to lose his previously safe Inverness seat in a 29 - point landslide to the SNP.

Nicola Sturgeon has joined newly - elected SNP MPs today as the party marks its historic landslide general election victory in Scotland.

Yet the same voters who would reward the SNP with a landslide would not necessarily deliver a «yes» vote in a fresh independence referendum.

A measure of just how vast the change has been in Scotland is that we are no longer surprised by polls showing the SNP with huge landslide leads in Scotland — we should be.

The SNP has recorded a historic landslide general election victory in Scotland, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

Mr Cameron said he would reach out to all parts of the UK and strive to «bring the country together» in the wake of the SNP's election landslide in Scotland - where it won 56 of the 59 seats.

The SNP won a landslide in Scotland in 2015, winning 56 out of 59 seats.

Labour only narrowly defended the 2000 by - election over the SNP who eventually took the seat in the 2015 landslide.

There was a landslide shift towards the SNP, which took 56 of the 59 Scottish seats at Westminster, while Labour lost 40 of the 41 Westminster seats it was defending.