Sentences with phrase «from ukip»

They took the advisory vote in a plebiscite from 37 % of the electorate and say «the people have chosen» when in reality it was to save their party from UKIP, the racists and xenophobes and the incredibly stupid 37 % who make up UK population.

Statement from UKIP Leader Nigel Farage: «Patrick O'Flynn came in person to tell me he had realised that he had made a...

They took two from the Liberal Democrats and one from Ukip.

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the Tories were performing relatively well in areas with a substantial Leave vote in the 2016 referendum, where they are picking up votes from UKIP, which did not stand candidates in many areas, while Labour were performing better in places where the Remain vote was stronger and with a higher proportion of younger voters.

A recount is taking place in the Heywood and Middleton byelection following a request from Ukip.

While he will gain more votes from UKIP than Labour will from the Greens, it still looks like it will be tight here, anything from a CON hold with about 1000 majority to a Labour gain.

In Wrexham, another seat where Ukip stood down, it appears Labour and the Tories equally benefited from Ukip's former voters, keeping the seat Labour despite its high leave profile.

Labour's candidate lost by more than 2,000 votes in Copeland — though the party successfully held off a challenge from Ukip leader Paul Nuttall to win the by - election in Stoke.

Linking with the above, showing that winning former Labour voters back from UKIP didn't and doesn't require making concessions to the right.

One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.

Ms Jones said there had been discussions with both Labour and UKIP ahead of the council meeting, and support from UKIP was enough to ensure a Conservative budget would get voted through.

Commenting on the resignation of Mark Reckless AM from the UKIP Assembly group, former Wales Office Minister Baroness Randerson said;

So the party should top the poll, although it would probably need to score above 30 % to win another seat against competition from UKIP and the smaller parties.

In a move that will further unnerve the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats — all of which have suffered from the Ukip surge — senior party officials said the next move would be to identify specific, mainly marginal, seats, where it now has a strong base of councillors.

Their numbers were previously boosted by the defection of two sitting UKIP councillors whose four - year terms were coming to an end; they held onto their seats in these areas whilst also gaining a seat from UKIP and another from an independent in Rugeley, leaving them with four net gains.

the views of working class voters, we needed to get back from UKIP were socially Conservative, against Neo liberalism and EU sceptic, the views of Maurice Glasman's Blue Labour, Glasman in the Mail on Sunday http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3693947/We-crisis-new-party-doomed-says-leading-Labour-peer-LORD-GLASMAN.html has now said a break away party would be a mistake.

My colleague Richard Adams points out that there is some alarm — mostly from Ukip voters, as far as we can see, though do let me know if this concern has spread to other parties» supporters — that voters are being asked to mark their ballot papers with a pencil.

Gareth Snell was selected to stand in the seat, where Labour is facing a battle to hold off a challenge from Ukip leader Paul Nuttall.

Guardian front page - final edition, Friday 23 May 2014: Labour reels from Ukip poll «mayhem» pic.twitter.com/bydhPWWY3 7

Mr Blair claimed the way David Cameron is dealing with the threat from Ukip «doesn't do them any electoral favours at all».

Downing Street hopes that a referendum will go some way to neutralising the threat from Ukip, which recorded 14 % in weekend opinion polls.

She began by declaring that «people have given their backing to Ed Miliband's plans,» which was greeted with gales of laughter from the Ukip contingent.

By the same token, David Cameron could end up losing votes by promising a referendum on the EU, even though most voters want one, if he appears to be buffeted by events and mesmerised by the threat from UKIP, rather than taking a lead.

The story appeared in Saturday's edition of The Guardian under the headline: «May accused of lifting cat tale from Ukip chief.»

In paragraph 10 the threat from UKIP is brought up.

It is with deep sorrow & regret that I am announcing my resignation from UKIP with immediate effect.

Writing in The Guardian, Dave Penman said: «Since 2010, the net migration target of 100,000 has acted as a lightning rod for a series of legislative attempts to cut migration and a crackdown on illegal immigrants as the Conservatives felt the electoral pressure from Ukip, and it was clear there were few medals to be awarded in the Home Office for anyone trying to advise a more cautious approach.

Speaking from the Midlands, where the Tories became the biggest party in Walsall and made gains in Dudley, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the party has to address issues of concern for white working - class voters in industrial areas who appear to have switched from Ukip to the Tories.

So there is evidence of an exodus from Ukip to the Conservatives, but the figure is far lower than Conservatives would like.

There was better news for Labour in the nearby ward of Dinnington, however, with the party gaining the seat from Ukip.

I would expect Labour to make gains from UKIP.

As discussed above, we currently find little robust evidence that attitudes towards the SNP and expectations about a hung parliament resulted in gains for the Conservatives from Ukip or in vote losses for Labour from former Lib Dems.

Whereas before they were able to run the council in this way with support from UKIP - that party lost all its seats.

Robin Brant reports from UKIP's Spring Conference in Margate, an event a senior party figure describes as a «get Nigel elected» rally.

David Cameron has said the Conservative Party will meet the threat from UKIP in the South East head - on as it campaigns for a by - election in Rochester and Strood.

The SNP are poles apart from Ukip when it comes to their actual policies: the former is pro-European and broadly left - wing, the latter the opposite.

Tories win by - election in Clacton, take seat from Ukip.

The prime minister had hoped he had immunised himself from the Ukip threat by promising a referendum on EU membership after the 2015 election, and highlighting measures to keep out EU migrants.

Cameron is in an altogether different position in relation to negotiations, though not the offer of a referendum that he is reluctant to make but will do so, like Wilson, to keep his party together in the short term and reduce the threat from Ukip.

The Green Party's Natalie Bennett and Roger Gravett from UKIP also state why people should vote for their parties.

Peter Riddell writes an article for The Times this morning in which he says that the Tories have little to fear from UKIP.

The positions of Conservative voters are for all issues roughly equidistant from UKIP on the one hand, and the seven left - liberal parties on the other.

This idea had some merit: Labour had failed to win key marginals across England and Wales, came under serious electoral pressure from UKIP in the north of England, and was all but wiped out in Scotland.

At Rushmoor Borough Council the Tories increased their majority by two seats - one from Labour and one from UKIP.

Despite Rowntree's success, it was the Conservatives who took control of Norfolk County Council after stealing nine seats from UKIP.

David Davis has urged the prime minister to take a clearer stance on Europe in order to regain ground from UKIP.

In recent months there has been a focus on the threat to Labour from UKIP but the rise of the party was such a problem for the Conservatives that David Cameron felt compelled to offer an EU referendum.

Douglas Alexander told host Tom Bradby that he took the threat from Ukip «very seriously» but added: «I think you defeat Ukip is not [by] what David Cameron has done: first of all ignore them, then insult them, then imitate them.»

he has agreed to attend a blue labour meeting in thr non London part of Essex in the spring, among others invited Is Clacton councillor, jack parsons who defected from Ukip to labour

That could have meant having to respond to taunts from UKIP leader Nigel Farage in a crowded chamber.