Sentences with phrase «away traditional conservative»

Prime Minister David Cameron is being backed by senior Tories including Education Secretary Michael Gove and London Mayor Boris Johnson, but many backbenchers including Mr Davies fear the proposal will drive away traditional Conservative voters.

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He described how the trend away from traditional, conservative labels towards those that were

When secular America openly broke away from traditional Christian values in the sixties and seventies, political involvement by conservative Christians became, in retrospect, inevitable.»

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

Our evidence fits with other research suggesting that traditional partisan loyalties to Labour are fading away among ethnic minority voters, producing an electorate more willing to «shop around» and consider a range of other political options, including the Conservatives, the Greens and UKIP.

He became the Conservatives» chief fundraiser a year later in a move designed to steer the party away from its traditional reliance on millionaire donors and instead attract smaller amounts from more people.

Conservative supporters of the Bush Administration have expressed a particular contempt for the United Nations and its various institutions, reflecting both a frustration at the unwillingness of the UN to be stampeded into decisions and a shift away from traditional diplomacy to the wilful assertion of power, perhaps best illustrated by the appointment of America's most hostile critic of the UN, John Bolton, as US Ambassador to the world body.