Sentences with phrase «scottish heartlands»

In short, the situation is far worse than the leftward drift that led to the Foot years, because (a) the country has moved right since then and hence less sympathetic, (b) Foot was a principled man who did not apologise for fanatics and (c) we hadn't just been wiped out in our Scottish heartlands just before he was elected.

Election 2015: Exclusive Daily Record poll predicts disaster for Murphy's Labour in Scottish heartlands 6 May 2015

At its heart are the twin forces that would prove to be the party's undoing: the profound doubts about Labour's instincts on the economy and the surge of nationalism in Labour's onetime Scottish heartlands.

In 2015 Labour will be outspent by the Conservatives in the south, harried by the SNP and Ukip in its northern and Scottish heartlands and hampered by the ongoing disappointment that is its leader.

Not exact matches

Scottish Parliament election preview: the last beats of a Labour «heartland» in Central Scotland?

The Central Scotland region is the birthplace of the Labour Party's first leader Keir Hardie and forms part of what used to be seen as solidly Scottish Labour Party «heartland.»

Polltroll — they're in a rather awkward position at the nomen between Scottish Labour surging up back to where they were in 2011, the Conservatives certainly back in play in the vast majority of seats they took in 1979, and the Lib Dems ahead in some key heartland constituencies.

The SNP are also, of course, seeking to eat into Scottish Labour heartlands.

He added that Scottish Labour needed to «rediscover our vision for the future» and noted that the SNP had appealed to «left, right and centre, winning Conservative heartlands and Labour heartlands».

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The city's Medieval heartland is famed for the magnificent Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyrood and the home of the Scottish Parliament.