Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority voters»

She ended the session with a much less irritating attack on changes to the electoral register which will almost certainly see thousands of disadvantaged and ethnic minority voters fall off the list.

But Labour won 68 % support among ethnic minority voters in 2010.

Popular commentary in the past year has focused on the Party's difficulty in winning the support of aspirational C2 voters, as well as the difficulty in winning larger numbers of ethnic minority voters over to the Conservatives.

But Barwell calculates that such a stance would not endear him to the many ethnic minority voters in his constituency.

Last year he admitted that many ethnic minority voters in his target seat of Dudley North, held by a Labour majority of just 649, think that the Tories «remain a racist party».

Campaigns like the «Go Home» vans or spot checks at London Tube station - or Cameron's photo opportunity with immigration officers in the home of an alleged undocumented immigrant - go down like a bucket of sick with ethnic minority voters.

Research by British Future suggested David Cameron could have secured a majority if ethnic minority voters had supported the Tories in equal numbers to their white counterparts.

However, there was absolutely no mention of an entire street of Labour - voting ethnic minority voters not being able to speak English either in her Guardian report or elsewere.

This suggests the kind of ethnic minority voters who fill in web panel surveys may be more Conservative leaning, and less Labour leaning, than the overall BME population.

The Conservatives» failure to win over ethnic minority voters has come under fire from Tory activists.

The Conservatives will struggle to win the next election unless it does more to attract ethnic minority voters, former Tory party chairman Baroness Warsi has warned.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, he said the government was committed to putting things right and he urged ethnic minority voters to look at the bigger picture when it came to Thursday's vote.

The British political establishment — including journalists — also underestimate the extent to which ethnic minority voters, especially Muslims, can be motivated by foreign policy.

Electorally, Labour also stands to lose most from pursuing such a xenophobic line as it will alienate ethnic minority voters who are a major component of the most deprived sections of the working class, and are a core constituency of its support in most metropolitan areas.

It is a party that welcomes members from all parts of our community, and I call upon ethnic minority voters to recognise the Party we are today.

All parties will need to work hard to appeal for this growing and politically crucial vote in future elections, and much more targeted research is needed to understand ethnic minority voters» concerns and priorities.

I have argued that the Party had made strategic errors through tokenism and ignorance; that it doesn't matter if we think we're not racist but ethnic minority voters do, and that it's time to end the Conservative war on multiculturalism (which, by the way, is supported by 71 per cent of Tory voters).

Given the Conservative party «s difficulties in attracting votes from ethnic minority voters, this looks like a seat they would be hard pressed to challenge for in the near future.

Javid, 48, said he recognised the scandal could cause concern among ethnic minority voters but issued a plea to those who were wavering to look at the government's attempts to «put things right».

At the 2010 election, only 16 % of ethnic minority voters supported the Conservatives.

«This is the first time in British political history that a multilingual campaign song has been used in order to connect with ethnic minority voters...

Cameron could have won a majority if ethnic minority voters had supported the Tories in equal numbers to their white counterparts.

A senior Conservative minister appealed to ethnic minority voters not to abandon the party in this week's local elections over the Windrush scandal.

Many ethnic minority voters are worried about immigration, like their white counterparts, but they are much more sensitive to some of the more draconian elements of the system, which have been allowed to run amok as the Tories try to invite Ukip voters back to the party.

The Conservatives will struggle to win the next election unless they do more to attract ethnic minority voters, former Tory party chairman Baroness Warsi has warned.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Javid said the Government would «put things right» and urged ethnic minority voters to look at the «bigger picture» at the local elections.

It has a reasonably high count of young professionals, students and ethnic minority voters — all of whom who tend to be favourable towards Corbyn.

The report strengthens the hand of Tory modernising groups like Bright Blue, which want the party to appeal to young and ethnic minority voters.

«Among ethnic minority voters the Conservatives» brand problem exists in a more intense form,» Tory polling experts Michael Ashcroft wrote.

Bright Blue, which counts Theresa May, Francis Maude, Andrew Mitchell and David Willetts among its members, said the war on drugs had clearly failed and that the Tories could tempt young and ethnic minority voters to the party with a radical proposal on drugs.

While not theoretically an easy needle to thread, Neil O'Brien's Policy Exchange, with its simultaneous focus on improving life in the North and appealing to ethnic minority voters, did just that.

But at the heart of Warsi's message in the Sunday Times and the Independent on Sunday is a simple truth: the Tories» complete lack of interest in ethnic minority voters will cost them future elections.

Middle - sized urban constituencies like Southampton, Oxford, Sherwood, Ipswich and Northampton are vulnerable to ethnic minority voters.

Ethnic minority voters are rightly suspicious of the Conservative party.

The reported comments come amid allegations Crosby sidelined a Sikh aide because he promoted the idea of making Tories more appealing to ethnic minority voters.

«Among ethnic minority voters the Conservatives» brand problem exists in a more intense form.

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, the first female Muslim Cabinet minister urged Mr Cameron let her carry on so that she could help the party attract a new generation of women, working class and ethnic minority voters.

The detail is buried away in Lord Ashcroft's latest poll of ethnic minority voters.

Of course, the public are sceptical of immigration - as are many ethnic minority voters.

Accordingly I had a feeling of quiet vindication when I read «Degrees of separation - Ethnic minority voters and the Conservative Party» by Lord Ashcroft.

He said there were four overlapping groups to which the Tories have failed to appeal: working class voters, northern urban voters, ethnic minority voters and people outside the Tory heartlands.

Our evidence fits with other research suggesting that traditional partisan loyalties to Labour are fading away among ethnic minority voters, producing an electorate more willing to «shop around» and consider a range of other political options, including the Conservatives, the Greens and UKIP.

Backed up by polling showing Labour streaking ahead in London, it's easy to see the basis of this trend, even if certain seat - specific results look odd - lots of ethnic minority voters, lots of young voters and students, lots of young professionals, and lots of angry Remainers make for lots of Labour votes.

Analysis of ethnic minority voters on the YouGov panel suggests that the degree of Conservative support among ethnic minority voters, and the shift away from Labour and towards the Conservatives, may not be as large as Survation online data suggests.

«Bluntly, the Conservative Party's problem with ethnic minority voters is costing it seats,» Lord Ashcroft wrote last year after the publication of his report, Degrees of Separation.

Labour should be building an electoral alliance that draws in liberal minded and ethnic minority voters — not repelling them.

The scale of this challenge is not yet at U.S levels, but given that Britain under 18 is considerably more diverse than the current electorate, it will become increasingly unlikely at each election there will be a future Conservative majority government without making considerable progress among ethnic minority voters.

As Lord Ashcroft puts it: «the Conservative Party's unpopularity among black and Asian voters is not simply a matter of class and geography... Among ethnic minority voters the Conservatives» brand problem exists in a more intense form.»

Politics: Harrow East is a traditional marginal seat between Labour and the Conservatives, and has remained so despite the growing numbers of ethnic minority voters.