Sentences with phrase «ukip made»

But they lost their majorities on 10 of their councils, which moved to no overall control, as both Labour and UKIP made gains.

UKIP made significant advances in the English council elections, almost doubling their number of seats, and, more notably, the Welsh Assembly, coming from holding no seats at all, to capturing seven.

[4] UKIP made strong gains, winning 7 seats (their first ever seats on the council), and Labour also gained seats (its gain of three seats being wholly at the expense of Conservatives).

UKIP made gains across Lincolnshire, ensuring the Conservatives lost overall control.

In Wales, Labour remains as the largest party, with 29 out of 60 seats, but was denied a majority as Plaid Cymru and UKIP both made notable gains.

Success in working - class dominated areas, such as South Shields, in which Labour lost 1.6 % of their vote, and UKIP made a grand entrance, show that Farage's pledge to «gun for Labour» should be recognised as entirely credible.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has spoken to supporters in Thurrock, where Ukip made gains from the Tories and Labour in last week's local elections, ITV News» Deputy Political Editor Chris Ship has reported.

Local residents in Boston, Lincolnshire have spoken about why they think UKIP made gains in Thursday's county council elections.

Nigel Farage says Thursday's local elections in England and Wales signal «a real sea change» in British politics, after UKIP made early gains.

Ukip made a breakthrough with 7 seats through proportional representation - the first time it'd mounted a major Welsh fight.

Ukip made no in - roads and the Tories made no gains, despite fears about Jeremy Corbyn's appeal in the Home Counties.

UKIP made progress, but less than it hoped, and the Greens flatlined.

The party also faced a setback in Wales, where Ukip made the biggest gains.

They are fearful of UKIP making waves in the north of England and even more terrified of challenging the voters» verdict in the referendum.

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«UKIP makes county council elections hard to predict Main Council byelection results from Thursday»

If the Lib Dem vote doesn't collapse completely, the SNP do well in Scotland and Ukip make inroads, the stability of the coalition will not be repeated again.

The manifestos are mixed on this issue: while the Conservatives show no inclination to slow down their erosion of the powers of local government when it comes to school places, and UKIP make little mention of it in relation to education, Labour want to return power to local authorities along with The Greens.

Not exact matches

However, the distribution of the UKIP vote may lead to the Tories» piling up votes in areas where they are too far behind Labour for it to make a difference.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

As founder and once - leader of the populist, right - wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage has already made a lasting impact on the United Kingdom.

«Of course there's a massive role to play for UKIP in shaping that future deal and making sure that Brexit actually means the thing that people are voting for when they decided to leave the European Union.»

London MEP Batten has promised to make Ukip a populist force and win back donors for the cash - strapped party.

UKIP's leader Paul Nuttall was recently forced to apologise after claims made on his website that he had lost close personal friends at the Hillsborough disaster were found to be untrue.

For the leavers, it makes sense to have Ukip appeal to their traditional supporters while Vote Leave reaches out a different constituency.

His entire time in power has been dominated by trying to make accommodation with other forces: from the Lib Dems, to Ukip, to his own backbenchers.

«Not for a moment am I trying to out - Ukip Ukip, but it's about a fair, reasonable system of immigration which makes it work more effectively for our country than it has done previously.

«If you get Ukip in county hall, we can make a fuss about it.»

In certain circumstances, she might be asked to make concession by the EU which would cause anger among right - wingers in her own party, Ukip and the eurosceptic press.

UKIP's rise post-2004 has made many politicians nervous about seeming too pro-EU for fear of losing core supporters.

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.

«I believe that a strong Ukip would hold this government's feet to the fire and make sure it delivers a clean Brexit.

UKIP have made a lot of this, the idea that established politics is London - based and hates ordinary people who don't live in London.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

He said: «I want to replace the Labour party and make Ukip the patriotic voice of working people.»

Former Ukip donor Aaron Banks made much the same point, portraying the country as out of control due to immigration.

Members of the Five Star party led by comedian turned politician Beppe Grillo today voted to quit the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group which is made up mainly of Ukip MEPs and co-chaired by Farage.

The Ukip leader said the images of Kurdish toddler Aylan Kurdi drowned in the Mediterranean had made him «feel horrible» but he insisted that the UK could not afford to show too much compassion.

In February this year she became deputy chairman of the party when Suzanne Evans was suspended — James subsequently described her to the BBC as a «woman scorned», the most public attack she has made on a Ukip colleague.

Another sign requesting no Ukip leaflets stated: «At times like this it makes me think of what my grandad used to do to help make Britain Great and that was shoot Nazi's [sic] and Fascists during the war and if I read any more of your gibberish I feel I may wish to do the same because however you try to dress it up that's basically what you are.»

He told the Ukip leader: «One, Britain makes more money than any other country in Europe from fishing.

What are we to make then of UKIP's ideology and identity?

It questioned controversial comments made by the Ukip leader about the result and suggested that beneath the cheeky chappy facade, lies a more unpleasant character.

Could turmoil on the continent help Ukip transcend the protest vote and make a real impact on British politics?

Earlier this year, I wrote to Iain McNicol, the general secretary of the Labour party, to ask him to investigate a donation reported by the Electoral Commission of # 18,500 made by Labour Leave into Ukip party coffers, just three days before the EU referendum.

Ukip may not have many MPs, but the legacy of its campaigning is a raft of measures making it harder for new arrivals in the UK to claim benefits.

However, if we look at the places that had local elections on the same boundaries last year and this year (combining district wards to make county divisions), the UKIP change since 2012 is equally strongly correlated with both the Conservative and Labour change, suggesting that relative to last year both parties suffered equally from UKIP progress.

The Conservatives seem to have made great gains since a Survation poll a year earlier put Labour first on 34 %, UKIP on 30 %, and the Tories on 28 %.

Nigel Farage said mass immigration was making parts of the country appear «unrecognisable» and like «a foreign land» at Ukip's spring conference on Friday.

Only an hour after Nigel Farage's communications chief, Patrick O'Flynn, had announced that Ukip would abolish inheritance tax, Dexter said he was making a mistake: «What on earth are we doing abolishing inheritance tax?»