Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority voters in»

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».

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

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

Not exact matches

«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical 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.

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.

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.

The ethnic minority vote could be decisive in the next general election, according to new research highlighting the enhanced power of Black and Asian voters in 2015.

These seats also have very low numbers of voters who tend to remain resistant to Ukip, including university graduates, ethnic minorities and people in professional and economically secure occupations.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

He easily eclipsed Ken Clarke, the Tory grandee who had turned up to lend his support, suggesting that the Tory leader's big tent approach to candidate selection — particularly in a constituency where 62 per cent of voters are from ethnic minorities — may pay dividends.»

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

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.

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.

«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...

The presence of a northern woman in the cabinet will not be the silver bullet to the issue of Tory unpopularity with urban voters and women, just as Sajid Javid's appointment has not made the Tories more appealing to ethnic minorities.

If Corbyn's appeal to young voters is mostly restricted to ethnic minorities and university students / graduates, that won't take him very far in Walsall North - especially with 8,000 Ukip voters from 2015 likely to lean towards the Tories.

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.

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.

In other developments today, a leaked letter from the equalities and human rights watchdog warns new rules which require voters to prove their identities at the ballot box could disenfranchise ethnic minority communities.

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.»

It is unique in being a seat that has a majority of ethnic minority voters, but a Conservative Member of Parliament - a sign that the party does not struggle to quite the same extent with Hindu voters as it does with Muslim or black voters.