Sentences with phrase «ukip took»

Ukip took 23 % of the projected national vote share in May 2nd's elections, two points behind the Conservatives.

David Cameron is under pressure from his backbenchers to break up the coalition and harden his message on immigration after Ukip took its first seat from the party in the Clacton byelection.

In Caerphilly, one ward brought a small rise as Labour held Risca East, but the vote slumped in Gilfach as Plaid Cymru and Ukip took chunks out of Labour's majority.

Mr Cameron's comments came as UKIP took out a full page advert in the Daily Telegraph insisting it was not a racist party.

This was because UKIP took more votes away from parties other than Labour — notably the Conservatives.

Ukip took their one seat of the night here and the Tories also made headway - Labour is losing votes in this heavily pro-Brexit seat, but they're not all going in one direction and they're certainly not going back to the Lib Dems.

Explain exactly how UKIP took labour votes when Labour votes increased?

On this rough reckoning then, UKIP took 5 points from Labour, and 6 points from the Conservatives.

What seems to have happened is that between 2010 and 2012 UKIP took votes mainly from the Conservatives, but between 2012 and 2014 they have had more success in attracting Labour voters.

If Ukip take support primarily from the Tories, as they did in Essex last week, they could deliver it to Labour.

The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband faced their first public appearances since the disappointing polls which seen Ukip take votes in key areas across the country.

In Kingston upon Thames, though, their majority now hangs on a single seat — and on the hope that UKIP takes Conservative votes in the right places.

Now in government, it is no longer seen as the the party of protest, with UKIP taking a few second places and the Lib Dems often failing to keep their deposits in recent years.

If Miliband was to come close to being the PM, Labour had to do a lot better in Newark, even with UKIP taking Tory votes.

Lib Dems lose control of Portsmouth Council as UKIP take 6 seats.

Yeah this was a mixture of things, UKIP taking Tory votes, former Lib Dems going to Labour / UKIP / staying at home rather than switching to the Tories, and local Conservative resources being diverted to Twickenham and Kingston.

Not a disaster; they don't have to win or even do well in seats like this, but a tiny increase is unimpressive, and the party should start worrying about UKIP taking protest votes which might otherwise come their way.

Not exact matches

Though it had serious implications for his UKIP membership, few took him seriously, including his fellow Christians.

Vote Leave was left fuming last night after it was announced David Cameron and Ukip leader Nigel Farage will take part in a live ITV event on ITV ahead of June's referendum.

Three leading Ukip MEP candidates have released a statement saying they have «formally asked the chief constable to arrest any protestors who call our supporters «fascists»,» at a public meeting in Hove due to take place today.

She says: «I think we've got to take Ukip on.

«We believe that the Conservatives at the next election need to be seen to be taking on the big, difficult issues facing society and not be distracted by the Ukip agenda of Europe and immigration.»

The Ukip leader caused a furious backlash from his party members over the weekend after saying that David Cameron had a duty to take in Syrian refugees fleeing for their lives.

Many journalists will happily take this claim and run with it for a variety of different reasons: because their employers are, to some degree, supportive of Ukip's agenda, because Labour's internal conflicts and poor polling make it seem plausible that almost anything could pose a threat to the party and, perhaps most significantly, because political journalism craves drama.

For example, BNP or UKIP voters would get to vote more than once because their second choice would be most likely to be taken into account first.

UKIP's Paul Nuttall takes over the party leadership at a critical point in time.

Ukip could expect to take ten per cent of the vote.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage will not take on the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in the Eastleigh by - election, he has confirmed.

He told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show Ukip would devote its resources to «two dozen» or «three dozen» constituencies where the party had come first in European elections and succeeded in taking council seats.

Some might say that UKIP remains the odd - one out here, but while Farage, in his tweed suit, may exude lamentation for a bygone era, others in the party are fully signed up to the future, and what's more, they see at as theirs for the taking.

The challenge UKIP face now is to maintain party discipline and develop a strong campaign organisation to take maximum advantage of the referendum campaign and build toward the next general election.

Indeed, it is important to remember that UKIP began life as the baby of left - wing academic Alan Sked, who subsequently quit the party, claiming that it was being taken over by right - wingers and racists.

Ukip came fourth in 2010, taking 5.5 % of the vote.

With the approaching EU referendum, UKIP will necessarily disappear — whatever the result — and another party may take its place.

As Westminster watchers crowd round the train - wreck of Steven Woolfe's failed bid for Ukip leader little attention is being paid to the woman who now looks set to take the crown — and that's the way she will like it.

A Ukip press officer, Lynda Roughly, took the blame for the mistakes and offered to resign from her job.

When Douglas Carswell left the Tories for Ukip, taking his data with him, it may well have annoyed some of those about whom and from whom it was gathered.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

Campaigning for the Ukip leadership will take place throughout August with ballot papers being issued on September 1.

But if we take English seats - Scotland's battle lines are different, while the politics of Plaid in Wales are complicated - and combine the Labour, Lib Dem and Green votes in each seat from 2015 on one side, and Tory and Ukip votes on the other, then the Tories in fact do better than before.

The challenge for Farage is demonstrating that their vote will not be wasted in a system where there are 650 separate contests taking place at the same time - and that in the particular contest where they live, Ukip can win.

A good result for UKIP in the European Parliament elections is a blow for the three major parties, but the major parties traditionally take comfort...

Thus, 49 per cent of Green supporters reject the view that «it is difficult to understand what happens in government and politics» compared to 35 per cent of Ukip supporters, while 35 per cent of Greens disagree that «politics takes too much time and effort» compared to 17 per cent of Ukip sympathisers.

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

Meanwhile, UKIP have gone into tailspin — losing almost all of their councillors overnight — though they have taken the Burnley and Padiham West seat on Lancashire County Council.

By targeting «generation rent» and portraying UKIP as «more Thatcherite than Lady Thatcher herself», he is taking a direct shot at UKIP's vulnerabilities.

The BNP, UKIP and some minor parties also did not take part.

The socio - demographic profile of the places where UKIP did well also suggests that it took more new votes from people who would otherwise have voted Labour this year.

Labour made a massive mistake trying to take on UKIP on immigration.

And you actually have to wonder why ukip have taken off?