Sentences with phrase «snp voters»

Recent polls show SNP voters wanting an SNP — Labour alliance at Westminster

SNP voters get the Tories.

It is also a key part of making progress in Scotland — a November 2014 Survation poll found 27 per cent of SNP voters would be more likely to vote Labour if we committed to publicly owned Scottish rail services.

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.

These plotters with no self - awareness attack Corbyn when a third of Labour voters opt for Brexit at a time when Nicola Sturgeon is being seen as a strong leader when the same amount of SNP voters did likewise.

On the EU, for about the 100th time, 63 % of Labour voters voted remain, compared with 64 % of SNP voters and 70 % of Liberal voters.

Survation polling, too, shows that 37 % of SNP voters would be more likely to support Labour if it offered a mandatory living wage, and 27 % if it pledged to renationalise rail.

Recent YouGov polling shows that four in 10 SNP voters think «capitalism is harmful to Britain and there are other, better ways to manage society».

The results show that those who voted SNP and Yes were markedly more left wing than the SNP and No contingent (the Yes SNP voters outnumbered those who voted No and SNP by eight to one).

As we can see, voters of both Labour and the SNP are noticeably skewed towards the left, with almost a quarter of SNP voters on the furthest left position on the scale.

Most Green and SNP voters probably prefer a Labour - led government to a Conservative - led one, and that is why those two left - leaning parties have been at the forefront of calls for a «progressive alliance» (particularly in the form of a post-election deal, as far as the SNP is concerned).

From the perspective of left - wing SNP voters, Labour would be seen to be «getting its soul back» and «going back to its roots» in terms of policy.

Meanwhile one in seven SNP voters opted to remain in the UK.

Just 15 % of SNP voters reckon a Miliband government would be much better for Scotland than a Cameron government.

According to Comres, 56 % of SNP voters in Labour - held seats say their desire for independence is one of two main reasons they are now backing the nationalists, with 35 % saying that «Labour no longer represents people like me» and 30 % saying «the other parties have broken promises on devolution.»

During his speech today, McDonnell urged SNP voters to «come home» to «the only anti-austerity party» in the UK.

Nearly two thirds of Labour and SNP voters (63 % and 64 %), seven in ten Liberal Democrats and three quarters of Greens, voted to remain.

SNP voters were more in favour of this proposition than Tory voters.

The first minister continues to be the most popular political leader in Scotland and retains remarkable backing from SNP voters, with a 94 % satisfaction score.

Scottish Labour should also not abandon SNP voters who share many of the party's values — not just those who don't support independence.

On cutting government spending, SNP, Green and Labour voters take a left position by opposing further cuts (particularly vehemently in the case of SNP voters), while Conservative voters take the opposite position.

In Scotland it needs to attract SNP voters and the south - west and English urban centres cities it needs to pull in Liberal Democrat and Green voters.

Overall, on tax and spend, Conservative voters take a consistently right - wing position, while Labour, Green and SNP voters take a consistently left - wing position.

The second major way in which the former Labour now SNP voters are distinct is by being much more left - wing on a variety of economic values and issues.

But it is equally important to win support from SNP voters in Scotland and UKIP supporters in working class parts of England.

Not that many SNP voters indicate a willingness to consider voting Labour next May, even though a majority (53 %) say that they have voted Labour at some point in the past.

82 % of SNP voters believe that reducing the deficit remains important + 85 % of Scottish voters

SNP voters rate themselves at 3.6, and Labour voters at 3.5

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

However, SNP voters, unlike voters of other parties in Scotland, do not see the independence issue as settled.

Meanwhile, Scottish voters are tactically voting to oust SNP MPs - and in some cases SNP voters have crossed over directly to vote against a second independence referendum.

By the end, when it became clear there was no such thing as a «soft» SNP voter, our campaign in Scotland narrowed its focus to an appeal to Conservative and Labour supporters to vote tactically in Liberal Democrat seats to keep the SNP out.

If one SNP voter had gone to the Lib Dems the seat would have tied, resulting in the drawing of lots.

At this election the option is the same for the UKIP voter and the Green Voter as it is for the SNP voter

Not exact matches

Since the 2014 referendum Scottish voters have been increasingly polarised along constitutional lines, with supporters of independence generally backing the SNP and opponents increasingly coalescing behind the Conservatives.

Privately, Scottish Tory strategists are absolutely delighted by this, for that dynamic suits both parties, driving generally «Unionist» voters (be they Tory, Labour or Lib Dem) towards Ruth Davidson and generally «Nationalist» voters (be they SNP, Labour or Lib Dem) towards Ms Sturgeon's party.

But, aware that the prospect of a second referendum plays badly with even moderate «Yes» voters, the SNP will spend the next six weeks playing down the independence dimension while the Tories place it at the centre of their campaign, an attempt to turn the general election into a referendum on a referendum.

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If enough No voters and even those yes voters who disagree with the SNP's politics can come together in May, then we can severely limit the SNP at Westminster.

In an interview with The Herald yesterday, the Witney MP acknowledged the Tories had «let down people in Scotland», saying the current choice for voters was between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, who are now running things, or the SNP.

The Tory leader yesterday admitted his party had failed to provide a centre - right alternative for voters north of the border, letting the Scottish National Party (SNP) take a lead on traditional Tory issues.

In an independent Scotland governed by the SNP, Labour voters in Glasgow or Liberal Democrats in the Shetlands could make exactly the same complaint.

Back then, weeks of warnings about a possible deal between «Red Ed» and the SNP finally broke through to voters.

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.

In contrast, of the 65 % of 2010 Labour voters who voted NO in the referendum, 75 % stayed with Labour in 2015, while only 13 % voted SNP.

This group of voters became dissatisfied with the Westminster government during the Thatcher era, felt forgotten by New Labour, and voted Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) en - masse in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has received a major boost ahead of next May's Holyrood elections as a poll finds more than half of voters now back independence.

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.

Scottish voters can opt for the SNP, northern voters who never recovered from the death of the industrial base and view immigration as a threat can opt for Ukip.

«If enough No voters and even those Yes voters who disagree with the SNP's politics can come together in May, then we can severely limit the SNP at Westminster,» a spokesperson said.