Sentences with phrase «minorities voted labour»

Small minorities voted Labour or, more likely, Liberal Democrat.

68 % of ethnic minorities voted Labour at the last election compared with 31 % of white voters.

Given the fact that nearly 90 % of ethnic minorities vote Labour and the highest concentration of them live in London it gives that particular interest a huge sway in selections.

Not exact matches

And for those of us who come under the Public Service Labour Relations Act, a minority of bargaining unit members can decertify a union: a 55 % vote of the unit would be required to keep the union in place.

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.

yes i know New labour is better off without me and I agree... sadly for me and brown to day selling new labour, the majority not the minority a well known BNP speak, I going to vote for the Tories.

So let us imagine the Lib Dems do vote Labour down and a Tory minority government forms.

Brian: if you can't see the difference between a minority Labour government that - in your words (from your original posts on this issue)- dares the Lib Dems to vote it down, and a coalition government based on a mutually agreed set of objectives, then you need to take a second look.

That is why even today if someone is from an ethnic minority, even if they are highly educated or rich, they are much more likely to vote Labour than vote Conservative.

Almost inevitably, newspapers are suggesting that a minority Labour government that relies on the SNP votes would essentially be squatting in Downing Street — even if, constitutionally, that argument is highly questionable.

In fact, studies (e.g., Manacorda et al 2012) show that the negative impact of wage depression from recent EU migration has been disproportionately shouldered by immigrant communities already in Britain, a major reason why Labour MP Khalid Mahmood is working to persuade British ethnic minority communities to vote to leave the EU.

Reading, which had been a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition, is to be run as a minority Labour administration after the Green party abstained in the leader vote.

Labour would get crushed if it lost either of these minorities from its voting bloc.

Speaking at a media conference after the national executive meeting, he said: «It is clear that a small minority who didn't accept my election as leader of the Scottish Labour Party just five months ago won't accept the vote of the executive today and that will continue to divide the party.

At the last General Election, more than two thirds of voters from Britain's black and ethnic minority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted for us (source: Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDminority (BME) communities supported Labour; only 16 % voted for us (source: Ethnic Minority British Election Study (PDMinority British Election Study (PDF)-RRB-.

All rights reserved THE BRITISH electorate, to judge by the opinion polls, is about to vote into power either a minority Labour government or - just possibly - a Labour government with a tiny overall majority.

«The New Labour ultra assumption that core voters have nowhere else to go is plain wrong: they are staying at home, or voting for minority parties, including, sadly, the BNP,» he adds.

If ethnic minorities had voted for Cameron at the same rate as the white British population in 2010, the Tories would have won 500,000 more votes, 24 more seats from Labour, and a parliamentary majority.

Nearly four times as many people from ethnic minority communities voted Labour than voted Tory — and those different communities are a growing part of our population.

There has been much interest in the «Asian vote» since the 2010 general election - when Labour secured 68 % of ethnic minority votes.

«You can't win elections without a coalition, and to suggest that we should be concentrating on our core current voters rather than looking to professional people and affluent people is by way of saying that we want to remain a minority party... «If you shut the door on new Labour you're effectively slamming the door in the faces of millions of voters who voted for our party because we were new Labour.»

One potential problem with a Labour - led minority government follows from the new procedures on «English votes for English laws».

In short, a substantial minority of people who say they'll vote Labour don't seem to be very pro-Labour when you inquire further.

The closest this country has come to a minority government in recent years is the 1977 Lib - Lab pact, when a beleaguered Labour government with no overall majority agreed to accept a range of Liberal party policy proposals — on condition the Liberals voted with Labour in any no confidence votes.

Instead, the shifts we find among Britain's growing minority communities are the same as those found in the wider electorate in England and Wales: incremental Conservative and Labour advance, a collapse in Liberal Democrat voting, and a surge in support for minor party entrants.

The research, conducted by internet polling company Survation, suggested that the longstanding link between ethnic minorities and the Labour party was fraying, and that the Conservatives might at last be breaking through with minority voters, having achieved a 33 % share of the 2015 ethnic minority vote overall or «one million» new voters for the party, and with a lead over Labour among Hindu voters.

British Future are therefore right to conclude that the ethnic minority vote is increasingly «up for grabs», even if Labour still has a large starting advantage.

Comparison of 2010 ethnic minority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in thminority vote choices on the (also online) YouGov web panel with the more comprehensive Ethnic Minority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in thMinority British Election Study (EMBES) conducted in that same year shows that Tory support in the online sample is 10 points higher, and Labour support 13 - 18 points lower, than among the equivalent groups in the EMBES.

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.

If a minority Labour government was relying on Tory votes to get things through that the Nats didn't like, there is always a danger that the Tories could resort to the sort of tactics Labour themselves often used in such situations (such as constitutional reform).

«SNP now 50, Ukip 2; Tories to be largest party in votes and seats, but still a Labour minority government.»

The seat will disappear under boundary changes, and its history really falls into two stages — a safe Labour seat until Tristram Hunt was parachuted in before the 2010 election, and the collapse of turnout and reduction of the Labour vote to a minority in the era after New Labour took control.

If Labour lost its Queens Speech and Budget — the Queens Speech alone would trigger a crisis if rejected — then the Tories and minority parties might well then want to trigger a vote of no confidence, and if won, Labour would be out in the cold and suffer irreparable damage.

However, if a significant minority of the Remain Conservatives don't turn out to vote or vote for someone else Labour will hold on.

He said ignoring the vote might embolden a future minority Labour government to act against the will of the Commons.

Since then the growing ethnic minority population and boundary changes in 2010 which removed the Conservative voting area of Pinner have moved it further into the Labour column, to the point where it can be held even in what was a very bad election for the party.