Sentences with phrase «contained more labour»

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This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

I would campaign for a red - yellow deal including electoral reform and an agreed manifesto, were it possible, both now and (perhaps more realistically) in the event of a hung parliament, and for Labour to have a manifesto which did not contain coalition red lines for the LibDems, as that would.

A Labour MP has a right to seek selection in any seat that contains 40 % or more of the electors in their existing seat.

With many of Labour's most eloquent Europhiles, not least his brother, David, on the sidelines, Miliband's shadow cabinet contains voices ranging from the nuanced Europhilia of Douglas Alexander to the more ambivalent stance of Ed Balls, who has lumped Cameron and European leaders together under the general heading of «catastrophic».

Gordon Brown's conference speech contained one announcement which is perhaps more important than many people realise: the prime minister's commitment to legislate for the goal of ending child poverty offers an important example of how entrenching Labour's legacy, defining its future agenda and testing the Conservative claim to be «progressive» all go together.

The Ministry of Labour has just announced new rules relating to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act (the «Act»), which make it even more important for employers to be aware of and comply with all of the rules contained within the Act.