Sentences with phrase «based electoral support»

Although I do not doubt your personal commitment to your long - held principles, I believe that a new leader is needed to take on the challenges ahead: steering our way through the very difficult period facing this country; exerting a decisive influence on the post-referendum negotiations; and winning broad - based electoral support.

In her resignation letter, she said: «Although I do not doubt your personal commitment to your long - held principles, I believe that a new leader is needed to take on the challenges ahead: Steering our way through the very difficult period facing this country, exerting a decisive influence on the post-referendum negotiations, and winning broad - based electoral support.»

Not exact matches

Secondly, and more importantly when it comes to the future of the party, we had spent decades building up a very local base of electoral support, from council to parliamentary levels, on the basis of populist, or indeed protest, issues that played well with disgruntled voters, but almost impossible to deliver in government.

In incorporating all of Mott Haven and part of the East Bronx up to Highbridge, the CM looks to garner support among her base, but bears the risk of having to appeal to tens of thousands of new district residents who have not yet succumbed to her electoral charms.

However, the tacit co-operation between Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown's Liberal Democrats in 1997 was the basis of great electoral success and forged a parliamentary combination supporting major constitutional changes including devolution and the introduction of the Human Rights Act.

Based on the analysis of this latest Sunday Independent - Millward Brown poll and other polls covered in this post, Labour would be in serious trouble if their national support levels fall below ten percent as the party is also facing a «perfect storm» from electoral geography and changed competition levels.

Despite all but a handful of MPs, the active support of the trade unions, the pleas of every former leader of the party and Alan Johnson's battlebus, more than a third of the party's electoral base jumped at the chance to quit the EU.

Minor parties can qualify for free time based on their level of electoral support at the last election and if they are contesting more than 10 % of seats at the current election.

The report stresses that its gloomy conclusions are based less on the immediate issue of Corbyn's leadership than on long - term issues such as the impact of Brexit, the collapse of support in Scotland and electoral mathematics.

(c) an employee of the Chief Electoral Officer who is assigned on a temporary basis to provide support to returning officers in the administration of a general election or by - election under the Election Act within a region made up of one or more, but not all, electoral districts as determined under the Representation Act, 2015; («membre du personnel électoral»)