Sentences with phrase «ukip comes»

The former Labour prime minister Tony Blair joined the inquest, saying: «It is right to be worried when a party like Ukip comes first in the European election, it would be foolish not to be.

However, Robert Ford & Matthew Goodwin, academics (Manchester and Nottingham respectively) whose book on where support for UKIP comes from is published next month, present similar data for UKIP converts since 2010 (Con 47 %, Lab 10 %) but very different data for converts between 2005 and 2010 (Con 39 %, Lab 43 %).

He says he'll be «very disappointed» if Ukip comes third.

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

Ukip came in second, proving it can pick up strong support in Labour seats and pushing the Tories into third place.

In the key marginal of Thanet South in Kent, the Conservative party are set to lose the seat to Labour with Ukip coming a close second, according to the first of eight new constituency polls.

In 2009 UKIP came second in the European elections held on the same day as in local elections, but they only fielded candidates in a quarter of seats where the three main parties also stood.

For once, not a LibDem issue, but a broader one where UKIP came third in the popular vote and may have one MP whereas the SNP is significantly overrepresented in the UK Parliament according to its share of vote.

And despite performing strongly in 2009 elsewhere in Britain, UKIP came in a distant sixth here, a long way off winning a seat.

Don't forget UKIP came second in by - elections last year in Rotherham and Middlesbrough.

UKIP came top in Medway in the European elections, but that was hardly unusual and as an all - out unitary authority we have no recent local elections in Medway to judge from.

UKIP came close to pulling off a second, and even more spectacular, there too.

Ukip came second in Oldham West in May with 21 per cent of the vote, nudging the Tories into third place with 19 per cent.

UKIP came second in the Eastleigh by - election, polling just shy of 28 per cent.

Malcolm Harvey, research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, says that Ukip coming third in terms of vote share while only getting next to no seats looks bad when compared with the SNP, who «are going to win half as many votes as Ukip and return 56 seats».

UKIP came third in terms of votes with 12.6 %, but only won one seat, with party leader Nigel Farage failing to win the seat of South Thanet.

Ukip came second in 118 of the 650 parliamentary seats.

UKIP came first in 8 % of BBC keywards but second 40 %, more than any other party.

Ukip came second in the seat in the 2015 general election.

UKIP came second in 2004 EP elections behind us, and we unfortunately have a BNP councillor (ridiculous nutter somewhere to the right of the Kaiser!)

The Tory rightwinger David Davis had already warned that it would represent a crisis for Cameron if Ukip came second, and Cameron will now battle to retain discipline.

UKIP came second and the British National Party won two seats in Strasbourg.

Labour was squeezed in its north west heartland on Friday morning when Ukip came within 617 votes of capturing the safe seat of Heywood and Middleton.

Notably, UKIP came a close second and gained 4 seats, despite not previously contesting an election in the district.

UKIP came in for a battering, although there was no explicit attack on David Cameron or Nick Clegg.

Delighted that UKIP came second really.

Not exact matches

Many political commentators have drawn a comparison between Trump's right - wing populism and that of UKIP, particularly when it comes to immigration.

A Christian UKIP MEP has urged two competing campaigns for Britain to leave the EU to come together.

Sorry if that caused you any offence atid but that quote and those first few comments from David and I came from an interview with farage and a BBC article when he admitted that ukip are the Millwall of politics.

«However, I have come to the conclusion that Ukip is ungovernable without Nigel Farage leading it and the referendum cause to unite it.

This anti-politically correct will also stand them in good stead when the unions come for UKIP if they look like seriously challenging Labour.

The bizarre developments came amid reports of alleged fascist sympathies from Ukip leader Farage when he was in school.

Opportunities like this — where the public are paying attention and most people will agree with UKIP — don't come around often.

UKIP has been through a traumatic time as it attempted to come to terms with life after Farage.

«I've supported the Conservatives for a number of years but have come to the realisation that only UKIP supports my views,» he said.

The new allegations emerge as the Ukip leader told his party conference that the coming «Romanian crime wave» will be at the centre of their European election campaign.

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.

It is safe Labour territory, but even here Ukip is expected to capitalise on strong support among working class voters in the C2DE category to come in second, ahead of the Conservatives.

But Ukip also picked up a substantial 6,148 votes to come in third - and new leader Paul Nuttall will be very confident of improving upon that performance.

She has projected calm, measured authority ever since she first came to people's attentions in 2013 as the Ukip byelection candidate in Eastleigh, following Chris Huhne's guilty plea for perverting the course of justice.

Goodwin analysed Labour constituencies with the lowest majorities where over 50 % voted Leave in the EU referendum, and where Ukip are already in second place, or a close third, to come up with his list of 20 target seats.

But as the costs of departure come in, workers who voted to quit picking up the tab, not the Ritz crowd who led the campaign with disinformation and lies, Ukip won't look so clever.

By playing the referendum game, Cameron hopes to come out with a win over the EU, Conservative Eurosceptics and UKIP.

After all, the extent of the Ukip vote suggests that it came at the expense of Labour.

The result will boost the confidence of observers who predict Ukip will fail to come first in the European elections later this year.

It is the sixth time Ukip has come second in a by - election since 2010, cementing the impression that the party is always the bridesmaid but never the bride.

Over 80 % of UKIP seats came from the Tories, and the Tories lost a greater proportion of their seats to UKIP than the Liberal Democrats, while Labour lost barely any to them.

The major caveat with the seat projections is that UKIP are shown at a point where they would almost certainly win a handful of regional list seats, but the Scotland Votes site doesn't include them, so it is unclear at whose expense they would come.

So it is unsurprising that UKIP support in the polls comes much more from former Conservative voters than from Labour or the Liberal Democrats.

The Conservatives would come second with 255, the Liberal Democrats with 45 and other parties including UKIP 28.