Sentences with phrase «alienated more voters»

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While there is no reason to doubt Cameron's sincerity in his support for gay marriage, he also clearly recognises how dangerous this territory is for his party, with any hint of old - fashioned moralism threatening to alienate the younger, more liberally minded voters that he has been so keen to court.

The party is hesitant to come out with something that pleases one group and alienates the other as it attempts to hold together a shaky coalition of city - dwelling liberals and comparatively socially conservative, but economically left - leaning, voters who're more likely to reside in smaller towns in Wales, the Midlands and the North.

May declares she wants Britain to «emerge... stronger, fairer, more united and more outward - looking than ever before», even as she implicitly threatens to slash rights and regulations, dismiss and alienate the voters of Scotland and Northern Ireland, and impose barriers on our largest market.

It can do, but it will alienate more liberal voters in London (without which it can't win in 2015 or 2016).

However, Labour is more cohesive than Conservatives on this matter, and as such was probably less likely to alienate voters.

She could have offered a more limited proposal, fulfilling the Brexit mandate but trying not to alienate the 16 million Remain voters in the country.

Some Cabinet ministers fear that Mr Brown is locked into pursuing a «core vote» strategy appealing to Labour's traditional voters in the north and the Midlands, and risks alienating southern middle - class voters who may be more supportive of cuts in public spending.

All Jeremy's «right on» liberal sentimentality is doing is reinforcing the neoliberal status quo which empowers Capital against labour, and is alienating millions of actual, ex, and potential Labour voters — looking for a radical Left agenda (or of course, failing that — a radical Right populist one via a more Left - faking UKIP Mk 2) that actually tries to stand up to the power of the neoliberal market.

This poses a «Brexit dilemma», the study says, pointing out that Labour needs to somehow appeal more to leave voters without alienating existing supporters who opposed Brexit.

The decision to campaign as Better Together in conjunction with the Coalition parties alienated large numbers of working class voters from Scottish Labour.The lack of a «more devolution» option polarised working class opinion though that option was effectively revived in «the vow «agreed between the Westminster parties last month.

«As the public gets more turned off you can see it in the voter turnout numbers, interest groups wield more clout, which further alienates the voting public.»

If they can win the argument that control orders in practice do more harm than good (for example by alienating «moderate» Muslims or because some of those subject to control orders still manage to evade their restrictions), then they can win over millions of voters.

How do you not understand that publicly disowning a guns rights lobby would alienate more than half of his voter base?

One wonders whether the government would have designed the «one generation rule» with more care were they concerned about alienating a bloc of voters that, if it were a province, would have the fifth - largest population in Canada.