Sentences with phrase «cent for labour»

Ipsos Mori found that 52 per cent of Scots would vote for the SNP if there was a Westminster election tomorrow, compared with just 23 per cent for Labour.

On 30 October, an IPSOS / Mori poll conducted for STV indicated that the SNP had much greater support among Scottish voters than Labour, putting the SNP at 52 per cent, compared to 23 per cent for Labour.

There are four national polls published today, and they all point to a vote share of about 39 per cent for the Conservatives and about 31 per cent for Labour.

I'll guess at 36 per cent for the Tories and 32 per cent for Labour.

53 per cent of voters believe the Conservative party is more interested in helping its own supporters, rather than people generally, compared to 41 per cent for Labour.

What if tonight's European election results bring even greater disaster — say, less than 20 per cent for Labour?

That's up three per cent for Labour, down four for the Tories.

When considering who has the best policies for the country, the Conservatives were backed by 35 per cent of voters, against 25 per cent for Labour.

They still see David Cameron as better leadership material than Ed Miliband: 38 per cent say Cameron would make the best Prime Minister, compared to 28 per cent for the Labour leader.

Of those who watched the debate, the voting intentions were 36 per cent for the Conservatives, 35 per cent for the Liberal Democrats and 24 per cent for Labour.

Three years ago, when the public perception was of a normal «kinda» guy who took his children to school and made it home for bath - time, 36 per cent of women backed the Tories, compared to 31 per cent for Labour.

Members of the House of Lords came in for criticism in January when it was revealed that average attendance at votes in the upper house was 55 per cent for Labour peers, 54 per cent for Liberal Democrats and just 29 per cent for Conservatives.

Not exact matches

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen by a surprising 0.9 per cent in the month of December, while job numbers were up for a record - equalling 15th consecutive month nationwide, with economists giving positive assessments of the labour market.

The latest proposal for updating NAFTA's automotive rules from the United States would carry a four - year phase - in to meet a higher, 75 per cent regional value threshold as well as new labour rules.Tuesday, May 1, 12:01 am ET

In 1960, 24 per cent of the labour force was engaged in manufacturing — good - paying jobs, with benefits, even for those without a college education.

In Canada and the United States, for example, the annual growth rate of the labour force slowed from around 1 1/4 per cent in 2006 to less than 1/2 per cent in 2016.11 This decline has reduced potential output growth and investment demand.

The labour market has also remained weak, with the unemployment rate continuing to hover around 5 1/4 to 5 1/2 per cent, as has been the case for the past 18 months or so.

The extraordinary tightness in the labour market has intensified in recent months; the unemployment rate, at 4.5 per cent in July, has now been below 5 per cent for the past year and earnings growth has picked up accordingly.

The unemployment rate has edged lower over the past few months to 6.1 per cent in September, and other indicators, such as new claims for unemployment benefits, are also showing signs of stronger labour demand.

Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

Our staff is on their hands and knees across a 10 to 15 acre paddock so depending on the crop, labour costs are 30 to 40 per cent higher than for conventional farms.

Vegetable growers saw a decline in production costs (decrease of 10 per cent), particularly labour, which is the largest production cost on average for Australian growers, which decreased by 6 per cent during the period 2013 - 14 to 2014 - 15.

«After the negative experiences at the hospital, I became a doula and attended numerous home births and hospital births, so I felt 100 - per - cent safe for my own home birth because labour and delivery were no longer scary for me.

The Opinium / Observer poll has seen the Tories retain their lead at two per cent, while today's YouGov poll for the Sunday Times gives Labour a two - point lead.

In 2005, 35 per cent of the vote got Labour 55 per cent of the seats, while only three per cent less in the vote for the Tories got them just 30 per cent.

Ten per cent of respondents said Labour's tougher line on cuts would make them more likely to vote for the party but 13 % said it would make them less likely.

The closed shop was as important for that as it was for giving the Tory forty - five per cent of the industrial working - class a moderating influence in the selection of Labour candidates for the safe Labour seats in which they lived.

According to the YouGov poll 41 % are set to back Labour, compared to 22 % for the Tories and just eight per cent for the Liberal Democrats.

YouGov's research for the Sunday Times newspaper put the Liberal Democrat vote share at just nine per cent, with Labour on 41 % and the Conservatives on 34 %.

It comes a year after Burnham took just 19 per cent of the votes in the battle for the Labour leadership — having started out as the clear favourite to replace Ed Miliband.

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility has said that NHS spending needs to rise at four per cent a year above inflation - nearly twice the rate proposed by Labour - in order to maintain current service levels.

In a 2012 YouGov poll for Prospect magazine, 94 per cent of Tory voters and six in ten (59 per cent) of Labour voters agreed that «the government pays out too much in benefits; welfare levels overall should be reduced».

In that same month, our poll for the Independent on Sunday found that, while 39 per cent of voters agreed that «The NHS would be safer under Labour than the Conservatives», 47 per cent disagreed.

The second nagging doubt relates to Labour's overall vote share — 38 per cent, compared to 31 per cent for the Tories, was respectable, but nothing more.

When the last Labour government temporarily cut VAT to 15 per cent for 13 months, George Osborne dismissed it, saying people wouldn't even notice.

Thanks to the same figures which mean improving macroeconomic fundamentals, we have been able to transfer some GH cents 3.1 billion of Tier 2 pension funds into the custodial accounts of the pension schemes of the labour unions, funds that have been outstanding for six years, and about which the labour unions had been loudly complaining.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

The Conservatives are also seen as the safest pair of hands to manage the economy overall, with 40 per cent of voters thinking that the Conservatives are the best party for the UK economy, compared to 31 per cent who say Labour is.

Perhaps unsurprisingly then, the Conservative Party is seen as particularly good for big business, with 34 per cent of voters favouring their approach over Labour's.

Britain may fail to meet its target of spending two per cent on defence, but there is a clear majority for the like - for - like replacement of Britain's nuclear deterrent: Conservative and Labour MPs will combine to marginalise their SNP, Lib Dems and Plaid opponents on an issue that's dominated the last few weeks.

-LSB-...] Meanwhile, private - sector employment has risen and the self - employed account for a record 15 per cent of the labour force.

Under first - past - the - post, they have fared less strongly in general elections, typically recording around one per cent of the UK - wide vote (although a slightly higher average in the seats they contest); in 2010, the Greens won 0.96 per cent of the vote (1.81 per cent in the seats where they put up a candidate), and returned an MP to the House of Commons for the first time, as Caroline Lucas wrested Brighton Pavilion from Labour.

A YouGov poll for the Evening Standard showed the Conservatives would be neck - and - neck with Labour in the polls on 37 per cent of the vote if they were led by Mr Johnson.

And if that person is Jeremy Corbyn, with a YouGov poll for The Times finding that Corbyn would beat Andy Burnham, by 53 % per cent to 47 % the final round of voting, then the Labour party will descend into a civil war accompanied by a gleeful right wing press continually raising the ghosts of Michael Foot, Tony Benn and other more recent signifiers of Labour's «hard left» history.

Last time around, there was almost a three - way dead heat in the battle for the first time vote, with Labour on 31 per cent just edging ahead of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats on per cent.

But a new Ipsos Mori survey for Mumsnet this week showed that only 29 per cent of women support the Tories, compared to a figure for Labour of 42 per cent» — Melissa Kite, Daily Mail David Cameron: we must preserve the memory of the Holocaust - Daily Telegraph

But he welcomed the Lib Dems pledge to reverse Labour's plan for a 1 per cent increase in National Insurance «when resources allow» - claiming it was moving towards his party's position on the issue.

A YouGov poll for the Telegraph on December 30th gave the Tories a ten - point lead, on 40 per cent to Labour's 30.

A Mori poll for the Times conducted on December 27th 1991 saw Labour with a lead of six per cent.