Sentences with phrase «snp support»

27 % think that Labour probably wouldn't replace Trident if they needed SNP support.

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.

Current polls suggest Ed Miliband, the Labour party leader, would need SNP support to secure a Commons majority.

Assuming SNP support holds strong, Curtice reckons Labour will need to lead the Tories by over 12 % in 2020 to form a government.

According to a Daily Record poll from January, the largest proportion of Scottish voters want to see Labour govern with SNP support after the general election.

With the collapse in England and the huge surge of SNP support in Scotland, it looked likely that Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander would also be staring into the abyss.

All the pollsters underestimated the level of Conservative support in the constituency section (and all by the same amount), Populus's Labour support was too low and YouGov's SNP support too high, leaving ICM as the most accurate in the constituency section.

The SNP's Carol Monaghan has hinted her party might find a way to weigh in on grammar schools, I'm told a friendly approach from Rayner would ensure SNP support.

The doubling of SNP support in Scotland presages big Labour losses north of the border and potentially a pivotal role for the SNP in a hung parliament.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

The vote on this amendment would have carried Lib Dem and SNP support but Labour's whips would have ensured beforehand that it would be narrowly defeated (thereby avoiding a disastrous general election).

To give one example from the election campaign, the Conservatives depicted Miliband as being in the pocket of Alex Salmond and as a puppet on a string held by Nicola Sturgeon, in posters warning of the dangers of a Labour minority government dependent on SNP support.

SNP support is put at 43 % for next May's Westminster election, while Labour are on 26 %.

She just might be elected if SNP support surges.

The really depressing thing is that, with expected Tory, Labour and SNP support, this insane bill is likely to pass with barely any opposition at all.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

Finally YouGov asked the remainder if they'd prefer a Conservative government to a Labour - SNP deal and took away those 6 % respondents who thought a Labour government reliant on SNP support was a bad thing but would still prefer it to a Tory government.

Then there are 8 % of people who think that a Labour government with SNP support is likely, and would be a good thing, the Conservative argument will fall flat with them.

At 46 % SNP support is down two points on Survation's poll just before Christmas, while at 26 % Labour's vote is up by two points.

But if it were necessary to appeal to the SNP support and SNP support was sufficient to give Labour a majority then a Lab - SNP deal would probably form without any other parties.

Faced with a surge of SNP support that threatens to have a decisive impact on the makeup of the next government, Scotland - always a part of the UK ripe for this sort of thing - has seen an outbreak of tactical voting in recent weeks.

As SNP support increased we might expect the strength of identity of its average supporter to decrease.

Not exact matches

Alison Thewliss (Glasgow Central)(SNP): Ministers will be aware of The Lancet series on breastfeeding and the open letter signed today by a range of organisations in the field calling for concerted action to promote, protect and support breastfeeding.

MPs gave their unanimous backing to SNP MP Alison Thewliss to push ahead with her Feeding Products for Babies and Children (Advertising and Promotion) Bill, which she says will «better support all parents in the infant feeding choices they make for their children».

Natera uses a SNP microarray from Ilumina with a proprietary technology called Parental Support ™, which tests all 24 chromosomes and delivers results that are typically > 99 % accurate.

But Miliband would need the support of the SNP.

We talk briefly about the weird dissonance between the SNP's long - standing demand that decision about Scotland are made in Scotland and their support for the EU.

«Even if he could secure the support of the Lib Dems and around ten Ulster Unionists, Cameron would be able to count on 317 MPs, while Labour, the SNP and the smaller left - of - centre parties in England, Wales and Northern Ireland would have around 325.»

The SNP have sold themselves as the anti-austerity party and Nicola Sturgeon has won rave reviews for her principled and dignified attacks on Ed Miliband's support for austerity during the TV debates.

As if this act wasn't quite enough of a slap in the face to Dugdale, her deputy quoted the words of SNP First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to support his case.

SNP MP Eilidh Whiteford, speaking on behalf of the SNP and Plaid Cymru, described how Cox's diminutive stature did not hold her back at the MacMillan cancer support Parliamentary tug of war.

«While a recent poll showed that the Lib Dems have lost support since axing Charles Kennedy, the SNP are moving forward as we engage with Labour in a head to head contest for the 2007 Scottish election,» Mr Salmond said.

The Tory victory looks like evidence of how little the public is now willing to tolerate compromise of any sort: the message that hit home hardest during the campaign was the threat of constitutional chaos if a minority Labour government had tried to cling to power with the support of the SNP and a host of other minor parties.

In fact, one could argue that the collapse in Labour support between the 2010 and 2015 is largely explained by «yes» voters switching from Labour to the SNP.

Labour have lost a significant chunk of their support over the past year to the SNP, Ukip and the Greens.

UKIP's national support was spread out too thinly for it to turn its vote share into seats; this was in stark contrast to the SNP, which needed only 4.7 per cent of the nation - wide vote to obtain 56 seats.

Shortly before 23:00 BST Mr Davidson received vocal criticism after pointing out that the SNP's proposals were not always accepted — as was the case with his support for the «yes» campaign in the defeated alternative vote referendum.

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.

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

Even socialist Tommy Sheridan, who thinks the SNP deserve to be supported by left - wingers.

The referendum campaign greatly increased support for independence, which is highly correlated with SNP voting in the General Election, as well as further dividing the Scottish party system, which was already split by attitudes towards independence.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

Of course, we will hear much in the hours and days ahead from Scottish Labour about the need to listen and learn and rebuild but with swathes of the party's traditional support having deserted it for both the SNP and the Tories, it's difficult to see how it can start that process.

It was only in the run - up to the ultimately failed referendum in 2014 that support for both the SNP in the House of Commons and their raison d'etre of independence soared to the crucial 50 per cent mark.

Given that SNP electoral success largely follows support for independence, we might expect the losing September referendum to deal a major blow to the party's prospects.

Furthermore, those who support the SNP identify far more strongly with the party now following the referendum than backers of other parties because September's nail - biting campaign only served to reinforce the belief that Scottish independence is a realistic possibility.

Socialists across Scotland should challenge the SNP's support for NATO and TTIP and expose their void of «socialism».

The SNP has the problem that support for independence is strong enough to keep the party in office but too low to make it confident of securing its ultimate goal.

As in Scotland when pro-independence Labour voters switched to the SNP because of Labour's support for Cameron rendering Scottish Labour a pointless electoral alliance that can never be elected again.