Sentences with phrase «of psephologists»
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Psephologists have been warning for decades now that multi-party politics is on the rise in the UK, but for most of the time they have been ignored.
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A seasoned psephologist and speechwriter, he will bridle at any suggestion that Tory high command should raise his profile because of his interesting back story.
Most psephologists predict that they will lose between 5 and 7 of their seats (out of 57 currently) but this ignores their strong record of localist campaigning and incumbency even after previous boundary changes which have allowed them invariably to buck the electoral trend better than the other two main parties.
11:43 - We've been chatting with Conservative psephologist Rob Hayward on the state of play in Wales, Scotland and London.
It was beyond the ability of Margaret Thatcher (in 1983 and 1987) and Tony Blair (2001 and 2005) and as a leading psephologist, John Curtice of Strathclyde University, points out: «Cameron is no Thatcher or Blair.
He was a Conservative Party Agent for 5 years and has been part of Iain Dale's election night team as a resident psephologist since 2007.
You do not need to be a psephologist to wonder if Corbyn speaking to Liverpool's students is the electoral equivalent of carrying coals to Newcastle.
The psephologists have made allowance for the fact that the wards where elections took place yesterday were not representative of the country as a whole.)
By lunchtime, with counting continuing, Labour had gained 153 seats — well short of the 490 gains expected by the psephologists Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher.
The respected psephologist John Curtice has calculated that the Tories could gain 71 seats from Labour without winning a higher share of the vote than in 2001, simply by a swing to the Lib Dems splitting the progressive vote in our marginals.
At a fringe meeting in Brighton today, the respected psephologist John Curtice, of Stathcylde University, told the party it had the best chance in a generation of gaining office.