Sentences with phrase «ukip threat»

The Ukip threat hasn't been nullified; Labour are 10 points ahead in the polls — this is not propitious ground for electoral brinkmanship.

The current Labour leadership is also trying to ward - off the perceived UKIP threat and tighten its grip on the party — rather than making any coherent attempt to win over Conservative voters.

Labour needs to take the UKIP threat seriously and can't sit back and watch the Tories squirm.

«Lord Ashcroft: The UKIP threat is not about Europe Main Mark Reckless MP: The Energy Bill is a sad retreat for Conservatives»

Labour leader Ed Miliband is facing a fight to hold off the growing Ukip threat in the party's heartlands

The prime minister had hoped he had immunised himself from the Ukip threat by promising a referendum on EU membership after the 2015 election, and highlighting measures to keep out EU migrants.

Corbyn hangs up his phone and starts his day, talking to students about the refugee crisis and the «national living wage», visiting a medical lab, and discussing how Labour should take on the Ukip threat with the local council leader.

Cameron's best hope of killing the UKIP threat is to give the British people the say on EU membership that anyone aged under 55 has never had.

Cameron's EU referendum pledge and his party's subsequent lurch to the right on issues like immigration and welfare was designed to kill off the Ukip threat.

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The Tories deliberately bigged up the UKIP threat to Labour in advance of the by - election because it was a win - win for them: either it would increase defections from Labour to UKIP, or (as happened) UKIP would disappoint.

To counter the UKIP threat, Conservative strategists have deployed the «wasted vote» argument.

The result shows Labour was right to be worried about the UKIP threat.

Labour fears the Ukip threat in the north of England almost as much as the Tories do - making this oddly misshapen debate about immigration depressingly one - sided.

Taking on a tough, apparently unwinnable fight like this follows a logic the PM has already discovered helps his cause when dealing with troublesome backbenchers and the Ukip threat they reflect.

Those facing a Ukip threat, in particular, seemed delighted.

(My articles entitled «The UKIP threat is not about Europe» and, if that is not clear enough, «Turn down the volume on Europe or lose the next election», among others, might have given a clue as to my view.

There is no agreed strategy for dealing with the Ukip threat.

The «UKIP threat» is not an isolated phenomenon but one element of the strategic challenge that I described a year ago in Project Blueprint: how to create an election - winning coalition of Conservative support at a time when Lib Dem defectors will give Labour a head start.

«The UKIP threat is draining Tory support in key marginal seats so much that the party could let Ed Miliband into Downing Street, according to a poll released today by Lord Ashcroft, former deputy chairman of the Conservative party.

With the Ukip threat looming larger than ever now the latest wave of immigration to Britain is underway, this is far from the best approach.

Two questions about Cameron's referendum remain: Will it unite the Conservative Party and defuse the UKIP threat?

It begs the question: why was this revolutionary new approach to dealing with the Ukip threat not dealt with before 2014, when Labour became the first main opposition party in decades not to win?

The so - called Ukip threat could well turn out to be even more a storm in a teacup than it was in 2015.

Not exact matches

Paul Nuttall wants to convince you that under his leadership Ukip will pose a serious threat to Labour because convincing you of that is Paul Nuttall's job.

In reality, he did it because he needed to neutralise the growing rebelliousness among his backbenchers and suck some of the venom out of the threat from Ukip.

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.

By electing Paul Nuttall as their leader, UKIP have sent a clear message that they pose a threat to our NHS.

«We posed a big threat to the established parties and they clubbed together and did everything they could to throw mud at us and abuse us... This attempt to paint Ukip out as a bunch of old men with problems about the world frankly doesn't bear comparing to the truth.»

In a bid to head off Ukip's threat, David Cameron yesterday promised legal safeguards before the end of the current parliament to guarantee a referendum on the EU after the general election.

UKIP has been plagued by infighting in the past, and now that Farage appears to have become a divisive figure, the greatest threat for the party is, once more, internal disunity.

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.

She spoke persuasively about the threat posed to Labour by Ukip and was applauded for condemning the harassment and intimidation of those in the party have been standing up to Corbyn.

Douglas Carswell presents an existential threat - not just to the Tory party, but also to Ukip itself.

Cameron's response to the threat posed by Nigel Farage's party has been to try and out - Ukip Ukip, proposing significant curbs to internal EU migration.

First, the next tranche of seats the Conservatives are defending from Labour; second, a selection of seats where Labour may be under threat from UKIP.

On Saturday night, Robert Ford, who co-authored a recent academic analysis of Ukip support with Matthew Goodwin, Revolt on the Right, said the findings raised new questions about next year's general election, and suggest Ukip could be even more of a threat in subsequent ones.

So Corby may have lasting significance in providing the first evidence of a potential perfect storm for the Conservatives of increasing Labour momentum in an era of disappointing economic news, combined with UKIP starting to offer a threat beyond its previous single issue politics to the Tory right flank.

But Cameron is under pressure to ratchet up the rhetoric on immigration from his MPs as they evaluate the threat to their right flank from Ukip.

With the new leader of Ukip, Paul Nuttall, being spoken about as a threat to the party in the North, how does he think Labour should reconnect with its core voters?

The «blue Labour» thinkers who have long recognised the threat Ukip posits to white working - class support will want a more socially conservative stance, particularly on immigration and Europe, but adopting such a position could put at risk the gains Labour have made with its «London core».

UKIP's break - through is a major development in British politics, but as May 2015 approaches this poses a far greater electoral threat to the Tories than Labour.

Labour has long been conflicted about how to deal with the threat of Ukip, with some arguing it should be ignored as the party poses a bigger threat to the Conservatives.

I've previously written about the drift of working class voters to UKIP and argued that, whilst in the short - term it would harm the Tories more than Labour, it was a serious longer - term threat to Labour.

Labour seems to have decided in recent weeks that its first priority is to stave off the threat from Ukip to its traditional working - class vote, much of which supposedly voted to leave in the EU referendum.

But intense pressure from eurosceptic Tory backbenchers and the growing threat from Ukip have forced the Conservative leader to prepare for a major shift in his traditionally balanced approach to the issue.

With his Northern working - class roots and charm, Ukip's new leader Paul Nuttall has been labeled a «major threat» to Labour's core vote.

Initially, Ukip was a far greater threat to the Tories, for it took nine votes from the Conservatives for every vote it took from Labour.

Another poll out last night shows that only one in ten Tories trust Nigel Farage in Europe - suggesting UKIP's threat to the Conservatives may have run its course.

And the problem isn't just Miliband's, despite «something big» undeniably happening, neither Ed Miliband, David Cameron nor Nick Clegg appear to be taking the threat posed by UKIP as seriously as they surely should.