Sentences with phrase «conservative sympathiser»

Its core support comes from a mix of financially insecure working - class men, who were traditionally loyal to Labour but who feel they have been «left behind» in modern Britain as mainstream parties chased the middle - class vote, and strategic Conservative sympathisers, who are keen to express hostility to the European Union but much less loyal to UKIP in general elections.

The counter argument is that not all those non-voters are equally unlikely to vote, it may be that the non-voting Labour sympathisers are people who would never vote under any circumstances, while the non-voting Conservative sympathisers could be persuaded into the voting booths comparatively easily (Lord Tebbit alludes to the same in his article — he says non-voters could be 50/50 Labour and Tory, but this after excluding the large body of non-voters who would never, ever vote).

Not exact matches

Although the party originallyfocused around Conservative euroscepticism rather than immigration, relative to supporters of other parties UKIP sympathisers are much more likely to see immigration as the single most important issue facing the country (see figure 1).

As a Republican sympathiser and like so many other UK Conservatives, I have been left to defend the shared interests of the transatlantic alliance more than ever as consequence of the specific distaste toward the Bush administration.