Sentences with phrase «big snp»

She expects Tories to hold share of vote but that «smaller parties» like the Scottish Tories have been squeezed by the big SNP - Labour clash.

If exit poll is correct it sets up a big SNP Scotland v Tory England stand - off... which could result (hopefully) in full federalism...

It will be interesting to see what happens with a big SNP block though.

Not exact matches

The biggest talking point in Scotland will be the battle between Kezia Dugdale's Labour and Ruth Davidson's Conservatives to become the SNP's official opposition.

The SNP would be the big winners, going from six to 52 seats, with the new technique backing suggestions by traditional pollsters that the nationalists are set to clean up north of the border.

The biggest change in opinion over the past year has been in Scotland where the SNP have surged since the end of the referendum campaign.

Some of the largest swings from Labour that the SNP achieved in 2015 are big enough to unseat any Labour MP if the Tories achieve the same at this election.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) is on course to become the biggest party north of the border after next May's Holyrood elections, a new survey finds.

The Scotland's Big Voice campaign has even produced its own definitive list of how to vote, wherever you are, to best thwart the SNP.

Among the Labour seats polled the SNP change since 2010 was similar to that in Scotland - wide polls but the drop in the Labour vote was much bigger, 21 points rather than 15 points.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

Their prescription is curious after a general election in which the three parties which rejected the centre ground — the SNP, UKIP and the Greens — made the biggest gains in the popular vote.

The top five biggest losses were in Glasgow North East and South, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath in Fife and two Lanarkshire constituencies, Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, and Rutherglen and Hamilton West where the SNP took comfortably over 50 %.

A movement of that size is rather bigger than would normally be expected to occur as a result of the chance fluctuations to which all polls are subject, though we might still want to suspend our judgement and await further polling evidence before presuming that the SNP's lead has actually grown.

In addition to the big Conservative majority they collectively suggest that the Liberal Democrats seat tally will only increase by four and that the SNP will be down seven.

Our biggest dispute with the BBC was over the prominence it gave to the idea of a deal between Labour and the SNP that was never on the cards.

The other big news in the last seven days is that the Labour Party have now officially come out against the possibility of a formal coalition with the SNP, in part to reduce their vulnerability to the Conservatives adopting a «Vote Ed, get Alex» strategy.

The success of the SNP in the Labour heartlands in the referendum campaign might mean a big upsurge in SNP representation in the House of Commons.

The SNP politician said that England is now a bigger market for Ireland than it had been before, and unemployment in the UK is now higher than it ever was in Iceland since the crash.

Aside from the Labour - Conservative struggle, the biggest development comes today with the launch of the Scottish National party's (SNP) general election campaign.

«The victory in Glenrothes is excellent news for bookmakers - as all the big money was on an SNP victory - and excellent news for Gordon Brown, who is now being backed to remain leader at least until the election,» said William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe.

But it will be used as a bargaining chip by the SNP for some kind of mutually agreeable deal about a much bigger investment in Scottish programming.»

There is a lot of SNP rhetoric about the big issues facing Scotland, lots of reviews and consultation, but less real action.

After winning 56 seats in parliament, the SNP became the second biggest opposition party for the first time after the 2015 general election.

The consequence, as I wrote previously, is the SNP getting the biggest swings in exactly the places it wants them — if it can win in the sorts of places it currently leads in, then there are basically no safe Labour seats in Scotland.

«The SNP propose Scottish independence, which would wrench Scotland out of its biggest market.

In 2010 it was the Liberal Democrats who were the kingmakers: next time it could be UKIP, the Greens, the SNP or even the Democratic Unionist Party who find themselves helping to prop up a government — and that means the bigger parties will be engaging in a lot of courting, a lot of bargaining, and not much in the way of chilling before polling day.

Their likely status as Britain's third biggest party on May 8th means the SNP could have a big say in shaping the next government's green outlook.

13:14 - It has just become mathematically impossible for the SNP to be the biggest party in Glasgow.

This week, SNP MPs have been trying to occupy the block of front bench seats on the right hand side of the chamber, to underline their status as the third biggest party.

However, the SNP which relies much more heavily on a «tartan tory» base and is much closer to big business has nevertheless managed quite sucessfully to eat heavily into Labour core support.

And our poll finds that Labour has yet to terrify Scots with the danger that a big vote for the SNP might hand victory across Britain to David Cameron.

He became the biggest casualty of the night when his once safe majority in East Renfrewshire - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated as the SNP's Kirsten Oswald swept to victory with 23,564 votes to Labour's 19,295.

The SNP are now the third biggest party in the House of Commons with 56 MPs taking their seats when Parliament resumes this week.

The doubling of SNP support in Scotland presages big Labour losses north of the border and potentially a pivotal role for the SNP in a hung parliament.

The dramatic 25 point average increase in the SNP vote in Scotland is accompanied by a big average drop of 18 points for Labour.

If the Conservatives get 10 more seats than Labour, but Labour has the bigger bloc overall, would the Tories retreat quietly into opposition allowing Miliband to head a minority government, tacitly sustained by the SNP?

However, in addition, the big five parties in England — namely the Conservatives, Labour, UKIP, Liberal Democrats and the Greens — plus the SNP in Scotland and Plaid Cymru in Wales, all make things a lot worse for voters by insisting on fielding candidates for every MEP seat available.

The Conservatives are the biggest party in England, the SNP in Scotland, Labour in Wales, and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in Northern Ireland.

Assuming this calculation is correct and the SNP does win big enough in May to hold the balance of power, the next question is what they would do with it.

However the big unknown question for me is... In 2010 when Labour swept the board in Scotland Jim Murphy said on election night when everything was going Labour's way «The results we are seeing tonight are attributed to the SNP's failings in government»

That's a big nod to Scotland, which voted Remain and where the SNP is threatening to demand a new vote on independence.

This is a bigger possibility than it might seem as Plaid Cymru could negotiate en bloc with the SNP and Greens.

Farron as leader will soon start taking leftish votes for the Liberals, on top of the impact of the SNP and Greens, so only a big tent approach (what is referred to here as Right Wing) will work.

Safe Labour seats swinging slightly to the SNP a la 1992 wouldn't be totally out of the question I think, even if the referendum doesn't go through - the biggest effect in terms of parliamentary elections I think will be seen at Holyrood, where the SNP might fare badly in the future if they don't manage independence.

Alex Salmond's biggest problem is that the three «British» parties collectively outscore the SNP by three - to - two.

SNP discovery was a big deal back then.

The top SNP (rs1800562) is the big one; it accounts for over 80 % of carrier chromosomes.

Third, the biggest hits have minuscule effects — less than 0.05 % of the variance — which means that hundreds of thousands of SNP associations are needed to account for the 50 % heritability estimated by twin studies.

While the results of this don't change your core protocol for healing, it does change the bigger picture in that we need to support the pathways affected by genetic SNP defects.