Sentences with phrase «labour support»

There is no evidence of any decline in Labour support overall — they achieve a share of 54 % in both years.

This time, Labour support fell by half the national average in university seats — and actually increased by four points in seats with the highest share of Muslim voters.

Rising Labour support has cut into the government's popularity.

It is an excellent idea to engage a doula to provide labour support.

I have no idea whether Labour supports increases to the personal allowance.

IS UN authorisation a condition of Labour support for strikes in Syria?

Essentially, we have a consistent picture emerging from the two latest polls, and this is of a stable Conservative share of the vote, with Labour support slipping a bit to the benefit of the Liberal Democrats.

«While Labour supported remaining in the EU to protect workers» rights, we can not hide from the fact that too much of the EU also had aspects of the old model, putting the interests of big business over ordinary people,» he said.

There has been an uneasy accommodation around the issuethat Gordon Brown lacks a full democratic mandate, and the steady degeneration of Labour support since 1997 had already set a context for the expenses crisis in which fewer than one - third of the 50 per cent of the population who could currently be bothered to vote would vote for the party of government.

I would expect at least a 3 point drop in Labour support as a result of all this.

And public sector workers, in spite of Ed Balls, have returned to Labour in droves: Lord Ashcroft's poll in January put Labour support amongst public sector workers at 51 % (up 12 %) with Tories on 20 % (down 6 %), UKIP on 10 % (up 8 %) and the Lib Dems collapsing to as few as 7 % (down to 18 %).

Interesting I think perhaps we are seeing a highwater of Labour support at 30 % it iwll be extremly interesting to see what happens as the econominc downturn begins to bite.

It was easily predictable that there would be a big boost in Labour support after Gordon Brown became leader, yet people consistently said they would be less likely to vote Labour with him there — they failed to forsee that they would want to give him a chance, or would be caught up and won over by his honeymoon in office.

The problem of overstating Labour support is especially acute in seats that Labour is defending.

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said Labour supported re-training troops as teachers but said the government had been too slow to do it.

The first of these is that despite a significant upswing in Labour support among low earners between February and March, the Tory vote held steady and remained ahead, with just over 40 per cent of the group saying they will back Team Cameron.

Everything else was designed to penalise the wealth creators and shore - up core labour support!

If Labour support falls to 31 per cent and the Conservatives manage 35 per cent then the latter would still be around 15 seats short of an outright majority, but could manage to put together a coalition without the need to rely on the SNP.

Farage is adamant that UKIP are «Picking up lumps of old labour support» and that former Conservatives comprise only a minority of UKIP's support.

ICM always over estimate Labour support, they had Ken and Boris tied!

In the long run, such behaviour will undermine Labour support amongst BAME communities in and beyond Tower Hamlets.

His greatest criticism is reserved for the Iraq war, which still saps Labour support.

After the weekend polls showing Labour support down an ICM survey for The Guardian will disappoint CCHQ.

Or rather they were the governing party in a hung parliament which, with strong Labour support, introduced national insurance for the sick and unemployed, abolished the veto of the hereditary House of Lords, raised taxes on the rich, and permitted the trade unions to support political parties financially.

People don't like Peter Mandelson or his methods, I'm sure Gordon Brown is eager to offload him and his spin which in the 1980's and first half of the 1990's helped Labour but really became the news and was not popular and hastened the fall in Labour support from 1997 to 2003, with the possible exception of David Laws these are all yesterdays men and David Cameron is severely mistaken if he thinks he can win by aping Tony Blair.

A spokesperson for Corbyn said: «Rebuilding Labour support after its fragmentation at the 2015 election was always going to be a challenge.

For the first time in the quarter of a century the polls did not overestimate Labour support.

Other results from the poll, published earlier this month, put Labour support at a three - year high of 39 %.

The collapse in Labour support across Scotland is «quite staggering», according to Nicola Sturgeon.

It will bring Tory taunts (e.g. at PMQ on Wednesday) to a crescendo about Labour supporting strikes.

This is not because Labour support rose among middle - class (ABC1)-- voters.

Leanne was amazing labour support!

Doulas are professional labour support and have been proven to reduce the need for pain medication and lower the chances for cesarean -LSB-...]

«In Libya Labour supported military action to avoid the slaughter Gaddafi threatened in Benghazi.

General secretary Dave Prentis said: «Jeremy Corbyn retains the backing of a majority of Unison's Labour supporting members.

In fact, one could argue that the collapse in Labour support between the 2010 and 2015 is largely explained by «yes» voters switching from Labour to the SNP.

The anonymous Labour figure who spoke to Huff Po today saying that Labour support drifting to Ukip was softer than Tory support may have had an interesting political point, but it spoke volumes about the party's mentality.

He also said that he would resign from the Shadow Cabinet if Labour supported leaving NATO, something which Jeremy Corbyn had talked about.

This pattern is a reminder that the fact that the prospect of a battle for second place has always primarily been a reflection of the weakness of Labour support rather than an indication of a major Conservative advance.

He said that while Labour supports Iain Duncan Smith's universal credit scheme «in principle» the implementation had become a «joke».

Blue Labour supports an environmentalism driven by our desire to protect the places we love.

«Labour supports attempts that truly punish and reform those in prison, and rehabilitate them in order to prevent re-offending,» he said.

She asked for an early opportunity for MPs to vote on the issue, promising Labour support for Mr Clegg.

David Cameron refuses to apologise for «terrorist sympathisers» jibe Labour support for bombing Syria falls as vote looms Anti-war campaigners face backlash over «intimidatory» tactics

Did they consistently over-estimate Labour support in the campaign or was there a late defection to the Conservatives?

In short the Tories are eating directly into Labour support.