Sentences with phrase «key electoral issue»

Labour believes health will be a key electoral issue as voters start to worry less about the economy and more about the NHS as it begins to suffer from the coalition's structural shakeup, declining staff morale after years of frozen pay and a budget not increasing fast enough to cope with the ageing population.

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«Clearly immigration, trade and terrorism were key issues that swayed electoral opinion in a very significant way, just as they did in the U.K., and probably will in the European referenda and elections to come,» he continued.

Just as Tony Blair had worked to move Labour away from some of the party's traditional, less electorally appealing positions in the 1990s, so David Cameron, taking Blair quite consciously as his role model, sought to reposition the Conservative party on a number of key issues in a push for electoral popularity.

Finally, strategically, the two key issues around which Blair will seek to fundamentally re-draw the map of the British political system are entry into the European Single Currency and electoral reform.

While in terms of electoral races in different constituencies, Nigel Farage's party impacts both the Conservatives and Labour, one area where it damages the Tories more is on trustworthiness on key issues and the electoral implications of this.

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

Elsewhere, a lawmaker's profile online would refer to his or her electoral history, committee assignments and ideological positions on key national issues.