Sentences with phrase «core vote strategy»

It is the core vote strategy, reborn.

Settling the election campaign team is seen as a precursor to settling campaign strategy itself, and follows fears by some that the party would run a «core vote strategy» or seek to recycle outdated past political dividing lines between Labour investment and Tory cuts.

If that really is the case, that does not mean we can afford to run a core vote strategy of our own.

But the former Scottish secretary Jim Murphy, co-chair of the David Miliband campaign, tells me: «A core vote strategy guarantees you opposition.

Lord Prescott, Mr Blair's former deputy, has said that Mr Miliband is pursuing a «core vote strategy» of appealing only to traditional Labour supporters and disaffected Liberal Democrats.

This core vote strategy at least has the advantage of showcasing Miliband's strengths and comfort zone.

It is a core vote strategy and a tacit admission of weakness.

He is not following a narrow core vote strategy, but clings to that old new Labour slogan from 1997 in which he claims to act for the many and not the few.

Not exact matches

Populus and Team Ashcroft and commenters at The Times (for whom Populus poll) have agreed for a long time that the Tory strategy must avoid mentions of immigration and other core vote issues and focus on «detoxification».

Miliband seemed to be banking on a core - vote strategy.

In actual fact, these are much the same people responsible for the core - vote strategy under Michael Howard.

The party was widely perceived to be lacking strong leadership and economic credibility, which it assumed it could overcome with a «35 % strategy» of holding onto its core vote from 2010 and grafting on some Liberal Democrat defectors.

It's what's becoming known as the» 35 % strategy», in which Labour aims to shore up its core vote and attract just a few more from here and there to keep the Tories out of power.

Some Cabinet ministers fear that Mr Brown is locked into pursuing a «core vote» strategy appealing to Labour's traditional voters in the north and the Midlands, and risks alienating southern middle - class voters who may be more supportive of cuts in public spending.

The old New Labour triangulation strategy was that the so - called «core vote» had nowhere else to go, but relatively affluent swing voters were key to electoral success.

He added that «continually reciting a mantra of misery is not the answer», and warned that the party will not win by relying on a «core vote and a few disgruntled Liberals» — which he described as «a suicidal strategy».

Labour's panda strategy — relying on a core vote, bruised by austerity and better motivated than in the dog days of 2010, plus Lib Dem defectors and Tory defectors to UKIP — may be effective even if it is far from magnificent.

«Whilst Joan Ryan was setting up Labour No to AV and building the national campaign as the deputy campaign director — particularly working out the core vote / swing vote strategy — Jane Kennedy spoke at about two hundred meetings of constituency Labour parties.

Not only has Labour's chairman of election strategy had his power consolidated; he also appears to have won the battle over whether Labour should focus on its core vote or aspiration.

Bale is rude about the idea that Hague's mistake was to revert to a right - wing, core - vote strategy after flirting with modernisation: «It could be argued that Hague had never really had a strategy worth the name.»

The former foreign secretary will suggest his brother is pandering to Labour's core vote rather than reaching out to the middle classes and that his strategy will keep the party in opposition rather than return it to power.

Labour's core demographics are far, far less likely to show up and with a small Labour party membership with a virtually non-existent get out the vote strategy the Tories would nearly always win competitive elections by default.