Sentences with phrase «heartlands voted»

And even though many core Labour voters in the party's heartlands voted overwhelmingly to leave, only ten Labour MPs publicly campaigned for Brexit.

His plan would doubtless lose Labour large amounts of support in the Midlands and North, where the party's former industrial heartlands voted by large margins to leave the EU in June.

Yet Thatcherism remains electorally toxic in large parts of the United Kingdom, so this is likely to reinforce the return to a heartland vote strategy.

It's not «Remainers» in general who want a strict immigration policy: it's the particular Remainers in cabinet, plus some Labour MPs like Rachel Reeves who worry about losing their heartland vote.

Not exact matches

Labour made a net gain of just two from the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Democrats collapsed in suburban England and their south - western heartlands as the centre - left vote fragmented and centre - right voters moved over to the Tories.

This approach presents a problem for the Labour leadership who have pursued a policy of «constructive ambiguity» in order to balance affluent middle class remainers with huge swathes of the electorate in its northern heartlands who voted to come out.

In the Lib Dem heartlands of Devon and Cornwall, the Tory polled 55,257 to 23,948 for the Lib Dem candidate — but a further 34,780 voted for two «Independents» — both of whom had been Lib Dem councillors.

Much of their support is from the Conservative heartlands, and even the vast majority of those workers who intend to vote for them have not defected from Labour: only 17 % of UKIP voters voted Labour in 2010 (the same amount who voted Liberal - Democrat), compared with 45 % who voted for the Conservatives.

Ronnie Campbell has been around for three decades and presumably has a personal vote he can call on - the idea of the Tories actually winning such a heartland Labour seat seems absurd.

Hence the huge drop in the numbers voting in the Labour heartlands, not just in 2010, but also in 2005.

Barely half the people in Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney voted in 2015, the lowest turnout in Wales, and Labour lost overall control of the council in Keir Hardie's heartland last month.

Ukip is targeting our traditional heartlands, not only do we need strong leadership to reconnect with these voters but also to make connections with those who voted to remain in the EU.

The fact that Labour did not extend its appeal beyond its heartlands and core vote was a strategic mistake for which Miliband is responsible; but his own campaigning improved his image.

Bradford West and Tower Hamlets — both areas in which the taken - for - granted BME vote rebelled, delivering stinging defeats for Labour in their heartlands — show that working via «elders» is less of a guarantee than has been assumed.

It was actually 62 % of labour voters voted to remain, and the labour vote, in 2015 was made up of many people who'd voted Libdem, or greens in 2010, labour having lost several of its supporters who'd voted for us in 2010 when Gordon was leader, and many who'd voted labour since the 60's, not voting for us for the first time, but the fact was, with our Scittish and inner London, Manchester, Liverpool vote, voting for us so heavily, ball areas called our heartlands, and Scotland aside, areas we increased our votes in, at the last election, without catching those swing seats, meant that many of our traditional areas Sunderland & Wales saw our core vote, massively vote leave,

I would imagine UKIP heartlands are less likely to have voted in previous European elections, but are more likely to vote in this referendum.

«It's many of these communities, former industrial heartlands, that voted to leave the European Union.

Fabian Society report on voting patterns in local elections finds party performed badly in its traditional heartlands

This narrative becomes a shade more sinister when the dubious category of the «white working class» (apparently neglected more due to its whiteness than its class) is elevated to the status of Labour's «traditional» support — the «core vote» residing in the «heartlands».

The Brexit debate has amplified the divide between Labour's metropolitan, liberal strongholds and its traditional heartlands in post-industrial areas of Britain, many of which voted strongly to leave.

20 days ago, David Cameron announced that he would be stepping down as Prime Minister and we faced the prospect of a General Election, against a Party led by some of the most right wing Tories ever, and with UKIP buoyed by huge Leave votes in our Labour heartlands, including in places like Clifton.

Stunning results in southern councils appeared to indicate that Essex Man was increasingly voting Ukip and, in a worrying sign for Ed Miliband, the party also made inroads in Labour's northern heartlands.

We are the only party that can get big vote shares in Tory heartlands and in Labour heartlands.

Labour was squeezed in its north west heartland on Friday morning when Ukip came within 617 votes of capturing the safe seat of Heywood and Middleton.

The realisation that we are taking votes from their traditional heartlands has finally reached Labour HQ in London.

In those elections, the SNP ate heavily into Labour's core vote and into its heartlands.

I think that Cameron should stand firm on the centre ground and dig his tanks into position, leaving Brown to scramble around on the far right and left trying to shore up his vote in the Labour heartlands.

In its heartlands in the north, the party's traditional supporters voted to leave the European Union but in its urban strongholds they voted heavily to remain.

Elsewhere in the heartland, partners at Baker & Daniels and Faegre & Benson are expected to vote this month on a proposed merger.