Sentences with phrase «backing ukip»

Donald Trump has engineered a major public disagreement with Theresa May by backing Ukip leader Nigel Farage to be the next British ambassador to America.

Mann claimed that Unite general secretary Len McCluskey had privately told him that «vast» numbers of his members were now backing Ukip.

One in four voters backed UKIP in the 2013 local elections but polls suggest the Paul Nuttall - party is steadily in decline and could suffer around 105 net losses today.

The result was particularly damaging for the prime minister given he had already tried to win back Ukip voters with a pledge to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

Should they try to win back Ukip supporters by adjusting their national message, and risk alienating the more moderate and diverse electorates in key urban and suburban marginals?

Each of the measures are intended to seduce back Ukip supporters to the fold and keep Cameron's backbenchers in line at least until polling day.

It found that 31 % of Nigels back UKIP, compared to 16 % among the public overall.

And the PM is convinced that at the very last moment, Britain's electorate will look into their hearts and agree the risk is too high to back UKIP.

Newly - elected Labour MP Jess Phillips has spoken to TP about standing up to the Tories, the «lunacy» of George Osborne's welfare plans, winning back Ukip voters and why she would be «utterly rubbish» on the front bench.

Their only MP Douglas Carswell used his victory speech to attack the voting system and it's failure to represent the large numbers of voters who backed Ukip yesterday.

But there is a palpable read - across from the 45 per cent of Scots who voted «Yes» for independence last month and the huge numbers of English voters who backed Ukip on Thursday.

of winning back the UKIP voters for a once - again hegemonic Conservative party on something like 40 per cent support — a difficult feat indeed after a decade for the Tories in power.

Only Boris has any realistic change of winning back the UKIP voters for a once - again hegemonic Conservative party on something like 40 per cent support — a difficult feat indeed after a decade for the Tories in power.

Not exact matches

«I see Macron as the enemy,» said Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) who was a key player in the Brexit vote, and now backs Le Pen.

The decision by UKIP to back Goldsmith's campaign was a gift to the Lib Dems, who quickly started referring to him as «the UKIP - backed candidate.»

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

Now Woolfe is back on his feet — and he may just have delivered the coup de grâce that will put Ukip out of its misery.

Norman Tebbit said the result was a product of the Tories» core vote «kicking back» while Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan called for a limited electoral pact between his party and Ukip.

UKIP is the natural terminus for all I have fought for.CH I didn't want to get back into politics.

The document contained statements such as «wage war on political correctness» and «win back some of the Ukip voters».

From his boat, Farage - flanked by supporters including Ukip donor Arron Banks and Labour MP Kate Hoey - refused to hit back at Geldof.

Kassam has encouraged his supporters to back Peter Whittle, but the announcement means that Nuttal, former deputy Ukip leader, now looks set to seize the Ukip crown.

And he cited struggles with fundraising - despite having been backed by the wealthy Ukip donor Arron Banks.

Ukip's extraordinary surge in the polls appears to have faltered, after a new poll saw them lose a third of their support and fall back to level with the Liberal Democrats.

At the same time, supporters of the Labour Party are more likely to say that colonial rule was a bad thing than those who back the Conservatives or UKIP.

Church leaders and politicians hit back at Ukip after the party's largest - ever advertising campaign was branded divisive and racist

Lucas said Farage was a «very effective communicator» but denied the Green party had failed by comparison because the Greens lacked the financial backing by wealthy donors enjoyed by Ukip.

Former Ukip voters who have crucially backed the party may not tolerate backsliding on these issues.

He is up against Ukip councillor Lisa Duffy (backed by Suzanne Evans), with MEPs Bill Etheridge and Jonathan Arnott also in the mix.

Dwindling, rudderless Ukip is gurgling back into the sewer.

The poll then asked those who were currently intending to vote for the Conservatives, UKIP and the Liberal Democrats whether they would consider backing Labour at the next election.

For every vote they lost to UKIP over the first four weeks of the campaign they gained two back from UKIP.

Looking back to 2009, Rallings and Thrasher now estimate that UKIP were on 10 % in the NEV..

But the Conservatives needed to bring many more UKIP voters back to the Tory fold (the majority of UKIP voters are former Tories).

Anti-EU labour voters who vote Leave likely to switch permanently to UKIP after referendum if Labour backs Cameron.

UKIP, under the rumbustious Nigel Farage, have fallen back from the glory days of the May local elections but are still in double figures, while Labour holds a narrowing but still decisive lead over the Tories.

But we didn't anticipate that the Tories would be much better at tempting back Tory - > UKIP voters than Labour - > UKIP voters.

«It was going to persuade 2.5 % of the [electorate previously allied to Ukip] to go back into the Tory fold.

These former UKIP voters have probably gone back to Labour on a conditional basis thinking that Labour is still committed to its General Election promises of ensuring a full Brexit.

The phenomenal rise in support for Ukip is underlined by a new Opinium / Observer poll which shows almost one - third of voters would be prepared to back Nigel Farage's party if they believed it could win in their own constituency.

Ukip has halted the recent drift of support back to the Tories.

Ukip believes the terror attack in Manchester has put public safety and immigration issues back to the top of the political agenda.

One recent poll of marginal seats found 74 % of Labour voters and 75 % of Ukip voters backed their local service being bought by the state.

However, on another blog here Jane Green presents evidence that many UKIP voters don't intend, currently, to switch back — a point alluded to by Mr Farage in that same Today Programme interview.

The majority of Ukip politicians, including Farage support the cross-party group «Grassroots Out» (GO) while Carswell, who defected from the Conservatives in 2014, backs the Vote Leave group.

When the Ukip leader declared that «we want our country back» he meant it quite literally.

The Ukip donor told Radio 4's Today programme: «We're struggling at the moment, there's no point in denying it — I think I've backed something like two or three different leaders in the space of three months.

The PM must bring UKIP voters back to the Tory mothership.

A moving average of UKIPs polling figures does seem to indicate that their support peaked in late 2014 / early 2015, but looking back beyond that I also note that they've declined and recovered before, so it's possible that the trend might reverse itself.

The pair famously clashed on O'Brien's LBC show back in 2014, as the presenter took the then Ukip leader to task over his views on eastern European migrants and troubles within his party.