Sentences with phrase «snp victory»

Fraser Nelson, who had analysed the constituency as closely as anyone but was still sceptical of an SNP victory, explains Labour's predicament well:

That seems to confirm the extent of the SNP victory there.

During World War II, despite the wartime truce between Labour, the Liberals and Conservatives (who were in coalition together), several seats changed hands when minor parties or independents made gains, including the first - ever SNP victory.

It appears the SNP victory consists of less votes than those going to Francis Curran - the Scottish Socialists candidate with the same surname as the Labour candidate.

Rumours of an SNP victory are rapidly building into fully - fledged assumptions.

Mr Scott is the second man to end his leadership in the wake of the Scottish result, after Labour leader Iain Gray also stepped down when the scale of the SNP victory became clear.

«The victory in Glenrothes is excellent news for bookmakers - as all the big money was on an SNP victory - and excellent news for Gordon Brown, who is now being backed to remain leader at least until the election,» said William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe.

With Kerr widely touted as a potential successor to Labour Leader Iain Gray, this was one of the major SNP victories of the election.

Not exact matches

Black's latest intervention follows an appearance on Peston on Sunday at the weekend suggesting the SNP are looking to raise her profile following a relatively quiet 18 months since her shock election victory in 2015 when she was aged just 20.

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.

Nicola Sturgeon will be absolutely delighted by a Corbyn victory; not because he is a kindred spirit but because a move left by Labour will allow her to consolidate the SNP's position on the centre ground of Scottish politics.

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.

That the SNP would win a third consecutive victory was never in any doubt but it's a measure of how dominant the nationalists have become in the aftermath of the 2014 independence referendum that the party's inability to win a second overall majority - under a proportional representation system designed to prevent just such an outcome - may be considered something of a failure.

Notwithstanding last May's SNP election victory, most polls over the past two years have indicated that more people would vote against independence than would vote in favour of it.

Coverage and analyses of the recent British general election of 7 May have focused predominantly on the surprise victory of the Conservatives, the poor showing of Labour, and the close to clean sweep of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Since its first Holyrood election victory in 2007, the SNP has done a great job of creating the impression that it's dynamic and radical in government.

[96] Following the results, Sturgeon claimed that the election was a «clear and emphatic victory for the SNP», despite the large number of seats gained by the Scottish Conservatives.

The remorseless focus of the Tories on the threat of a Labour / SNP tie - up was undoubtedly a significant element in the Conservative victory.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the local elections were an «emphatic» victory for the SNP, despite the Conservative's gains north of the border.

The Tories and the SNP deserve congratulations for pulling off a remarkable victory.

In his victory speech last night, the SNP leader promised to bring forward a referendum on Scottish independence during the course of the next parliament - a prospect that will worry Westminster.

The SNP squeaked a victory by 65 votes to 60, but it was a panicked one which saw them have to call minister Aileen Campbell back from maternity leave.

And Labour's situation in Scotland went from bad to worse as Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson, who won a sensational victory from the SNP in Edinburgh Central, hinted her party would become the official opposition in Holyrood.

Expected victory in London tonight and a Scottish rout - a humiliating defeat should the Tories emerge the official opposition in SNP land - are flanks of a battleground on which Labour didn't do as badly as predicted.

The SNP won six seats back in 2010 but Alex Salmond said their overwhelming victory five years on shows the «Scottish lion has roared».

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

His party started here with a far better infrastructure than in Glasgow East (which they won in July on a swing of over 20 per cent) and the confidence exuded by the SNP campaign all the way until polling day suggests that they too will have been flabbergasted by the extent of Labour's victory, on a swing to the SNP of a mere 5 per cent.

Mr Salmond said: «This is a historic result for the SNP - up 10 points from the last European election - and the first time we have ever won a UK - wide election in Scotland, with a much greater margin of victory than even the Holyrood win two years ago.

Just before she won her huge victory in the 2016 elections, Sturgeon promised that a second referendum would only come if the SNP earned «the right to propose it».

It would give Labour the unquestionable momentum supplied by surprise political victories and suggest the SNP tide can be turned back.

When former SNP chief Alex Salmond led his party to its first Scottish Parliament election victory the following year, there was a popular assumption that Labour would soon fight back.

It's almost three years since she led the SNP to its crushing victory of 2016, with the Tories sneaking past Labour into second place.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is celebrating what she said was an «emphatic» victory, her first as party leader, after the SNP emerged as the largest party at Holyrood with 63 seats, ahead of the Conservatives on 31 and Labour on 24.

The SNP's priority is keeping happy the middle - class voters who handed it its first Scottish Parliamentary election victory in 2007.

Human resources professional Kirsten Oswald only joined the SNP in June 2014 and could now have a sensational victory over the Scottish Labour leader.

And our poll finds that Labour has yet to terrify Scots with the danger that a big vote for the SNP might hand victory across Britain to David Cameron.

He became the biggest casualty of the night when his once safe majority in East Renfrewshire - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated as the SNP's Kirsten Oswald swept to victory with 23,564 votes to Labour's 19,295.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has celebrated a third successive victory for her party in Scottish Parliament elections, while Labour was beaten into third place in Scotland.

This was part of territory which the SNP's Annabelle Ewing had fought in Perth, in a narrow victory against the Conservatives.

Despite the SNP appearing to be on track for a comfortable victory in the polls, Miliband described the Labour effort as a «good campaign'that had focused on the important issues.

He told the Financial Times the SNP would use a victory in Holyrood to press for Scottish independence, threatening the union and distracting political energy from the need to revive Scotland's economy.

[22][23] The SNP, encouraged by its victory in the 2007 Scottish parliament elections, set itself a target of returning 20 MPs and hoped to find itself holding a balance of power.

From Labour's viewpoint, London began to look alarmingly like Scotland, where Alex Salmond won his stunning victory last year because one in five normally Labour voters switched to the SNP.

The SNP's greatest victory since the Hamilton by - election which put it on the map in 1967.

Senior Labour MPs privately blame Lamont for showing poor, lacklustre leadership both during and immediately after the referendum, failing to capitalise on the no camp's victory and allowing the SNP to seize the agenda.

• Historic victory gives SNP working majority in Scotland • Overwhelming «no» vote in AV referendum on 40 % turnout • Collapse for Nick Clegg; triumph for David Cameron

By the time polling day in Glasgow North East comes, a year will have passed since the SNP's John Mason won a totemic victory against Labour in Glasgow East.

As they bed down for another five years, Louise Thompson looks at what their unexpected victory means for parliament, focussing on the SNP influx, English Votes for English Laws, and the Brexit referendum.

There was a clear example not long ago, where the Holyrood victory of the SNP in 2007 was followed by Labour's «business as usual» general election victory in Scotland in 2010.

Just like in 1979 and 1997, an alliance of Labour and SNP voters will be sufficient to see the yes campaigners over the line to victory.