Sentences with phrase «snp members»

That is the job I pledge to do, to best serve SNP members, the independence movement and our leader Nicola Sturgeon:

As MPs meet for swearing in this week we have seen the first evidence of this, with an influx of SNP Members and far fewer Liberal Democrats.

It is likely that after the General Election there will be more SNP members of parliament sitting in Westminster whose concern will be Scotland and not what is best for England.

She has the ability to make SNP members believe that they think exactly what she thinks.

She was comforted by SNP members after her speech during a Commons debate on violence against women.

And to the disgust of many angry SNP members, she decided to give the Labour MP the benefit of the doubt.

But the averages disguise some significant differences — not least that 44 % of Tory members are aged 65 or over, compared with 29 per cent of Labour members, 30 % of Lib Dem members and 32 % of SNP members.

On the economy, 11 % of Tory members agree that austerity has gone too far, compared with 98 % of Labour members, 93 % of SNP members, and 75 % of Lib Dem members.

For instance, 71 % are men, compared with 53 % of Labour members, 57 % of SNP members and 63 % of Lib Dems.

Just over half of Tory party members support the death penalty compared to under ten per cent of Labour and Lib Dem members and a fifth of SNP members.

As far as SNP members were concerned, failure to win independence was merely a stumble on a long road.

«It seems you're not alone,» the SNP member for the Western Isles says slyly.

Thomson was elected as an SNP member but withdrew from the party whip last year.

But she added that there was a long way to go, citing Soames» heckling of SNP member Tasmina Ahmed - Sheikh, for which the Tory MP was forced to apologise.

Tommy Sheppard, the SNP member of the standards committee, has written to Kathryn Hudson, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, suggesting major changes.

Cameron also hinted that the UK could potentially remain inside the EU's single market, when replying to a question by SNP member Angus Robertson what measures he would take to ensure economic stability in Scotland.

SNP member George Kerevan asked «Can the prime minister confirm or deny if there have been any official conversations at any level regarding giving Nigel Farage a peerage?»

Not exact matches

Kirsty Blackman (Aberdeen North)(SNP): I want to speak particularly about the asks that my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss)-- I want to say Councillor Thewliss — mentioned.

If you go back to the early sixties when Plaid and SNP had three Members of Parliament at the same time and a relatively similar population and electorate.

In the Scottish Parliament election, 2016, SNP saw its constituency vote increase slightly (from 45.4 % to 46.5 %) and its regional vote decrease slightly (from 44.0 % to 41.7 %), leading to a decrease from 69 to 63 seats (out of 129) in the additional member system.

But SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, with 63 of Holyrood's 129 members, will continue as First Minister with a thwocking great personal mandate (and the election of six Green MSPs means there will continue to be a majority of pro-independence members in the Scottish Parliament).

Conservative MPs and members of the public gallery then stood up applaud, along with a few Liberal Democrat, SNP and DUP MPs.

Pro-Corbyn party members believe their man's politics hold the key to defeating the SNP but Davidson's success (remember, the Tories were supposed to be extinct in Scotland) has surely proved that, north of the border, political parties are divided along constitutional lines rather than left v right ideological ones.

An overwhelming majority of Tory members (84 %) believe that schools should teach children to obey authority, compared with 31 % of Labour members and 38 % of SNP and Lib Dem members.

And Danny Alexander, even if he beats the odds and retains his seat against the SNP onslaught in his Scottish seat, has been far too closely associated with unpopular Coalition decisions to stand a chance of winning the all - member ballot.

There was also evidence of justice secretary Michael Gove cosying up to the SNP politician in the Commons chamber, just hours after his success in the Private Members» Bill ballot.

The average age of party members is 57 for the Tories, 54 for the SNP, 53 for Labour, and 52 for the Liberal Democrats — and just one in 20 party members in the UK is aged between 18 - 24.

Sturgeon joined the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 1986, having already become a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and quickly became their Youth Affairs Vice Convener and Publicity Vice Convener.

What's worth noting straight away is that, with a couple of exceptions (namely, that on the «objective measure» Labour supporters are more left wing than Greens and UKIP members slightly more left - wing than Lib Dems), the relative ordering on all three measures is the same: from left to right, it runs Greens, Labour, SNP, Lib Dem, UKIP, and Conservative.

A well - known left wing member of the SNP, she has campaigned strongly on social justice issues, seeking better treatment for asylum seekers and she holds the SNP Deputy portfolio for that area.

John Curtice has shown how the SNP managed to maximise both parts of the electoral system in 2011 to effectively negate the «top up» aspect of the additional member system used for Holyrood.

He was previously a member of the Scottish Parliament, rising to be Deputy Finance Minister and Chief Whip, before his 2007 defeat at the hands of the SNP.

Profile of Conservative members compared to general picture across the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, SNP and Greens

In Scotland the Additional Member System agreed for the Scottish Parliament will hand Labour seats to parties to its right — the Liberal Democrats, SNP and even the Tories will benefit — and almost certainly lose Labour the majority it would have under the present system.

These new members might well become Labour's cyber-left, comparable to the SNP's infamous cyber-nats.

Far more devastating in his assessment was the SNP's Angus MacNeil, the member for the Western Isles.

Once the vote concerning independence began, however, unions overwhelmingly rejected the key tenant of the SNP's platform, describing the idea as «economically damaging to union members and their families».

The MSP told party members that he was «absolutely determined» to bring about change in the labour market and the economy, saying he was «angry about the callousness of the Tories and the complacency of the SNP».

There is a solution, a relatively straightforward one, contained in this private members bill proposed by the SNP's Angus MacNeil, a bill that I am proud to back.

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.

Another audience member asked about Trident and again the SNP leader was on firm ground: «I choose childcare, health and education over new Trident weapons any day of the week.»

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.

This is no small achievement, given that the SNP now has around 130,000 members - more than four times the number Salmond had to keep in line.

Although this proposal was sniffed at by some members of the Scottish Nationalist Party on Monday, the government was only aiming to implement exactly what SNP MPs demanded when we originally set the Committee up, without minority party participation.

The SNP said that a large proportion of their general funding came from party members, many of whom make regular monthly donations well above their annual membership fees, and other small donors.

Then in 2011 the Compass membership voted to take the huge cultural and political step of changing our constitution to open up membership beyond just Labour to welcome in party members from the Greens, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Plaid Cymru and anyone who supported our good society goals of much greater equality, sustainability, democracy and pluralism.

The SNP has had similar good fortune, claiming to have 90,000 members at the end of last year.

Speaking today, SNP MP Martin Docherty - Hughes said that this was further evidence of Leave groups working together: «It can only be explained by one person filling out multiple forms for different groups, and making the same mistake... The case that senior Leave members have to answer becomes more serious by the day.»

Friday update: Today's Scotsman hints at potential clashes between Ruth and the SNP candidate, David Kerr, contrasting the facts that she is a lesbian and he is an member of Opus Dei.

With the SNP due to parade some of its 64,000 new members at its conference in Perth on Friday, Salmond retorted that the Tories were doubly toxic.