Sentences with phrase «on economic competence»

Labour is 11 % behind on economic competence and no opposition has gone on to win the next election when trailing the government on the economy, after two and half years.

To be sure, parties can still lose elections when they go into an election ahead on economic competence or personal leadership.

The poll also showed the two parties neck and neck on economic competence, both on 31 %.

That means the opposition is now polling ahead of its overall party vote score on economic competence.

Good news otherwise, especially on the economic competence.

Labour should be careful what they wish for; national polls consistently show that we are the party the public trusts on economic competence and to run our public services.

While Conservatives will be relieved to see their party maintain its lead on economic competence, their polling has dropped by five points to 13 % since June.

I.e. Cameron was consistently seen as a better leader than Miliband (a gap that grew), and Cameron - Osborne were ahead of Miliband - Balls on economic competence.

But with many opinion polls showing Labour trailing the Conservatives on economic competence, the Labour leadership is discussing issues such as whether to accept the Coalition's spending ceiling.»

Worryingly for Labour, the research found that the Tories are ahead of the party on economic competence and making «fair cuts», as the Coalition Government has pledged.

Labour is not running on an economic competence platform, even though it flirted with it last week.

«NO Party has ever won a post war election when they trailed in voter's opinions on their economic competence AND their Leader trailed in voters approval ratings».

Labour consistently lag behind the Tories when it comes to polling on economic competence, despite their hefty poll leads overall.

When considering unprecedented political phenomena, Ed Miliband, and indeed Ed Balls, might want think more carefully about where the party stands with voters on economic competence.

Lest we forget, this slide on economic competence has happened during the worst of the double dip recession.

That way we: a) have a speksman who'm labour would find it hard to attack on economic competence and b) bring some old, but talented blood into the Dave & George show.

That 20 - point advantage to the Tories is the widest gap that ICM has recorded on economic competence since December 2011, when — with memories of the Brown administration recent, and with Osborne's «omnishambles» 2012 budget still in the future — the Conservative lead on this score briefly hit 21 points.

The overall Tory advantage on economic competence over Labour has grown to 35 % over 27 %.

or more) behind on economic competence and Corbyn is roughly the same behind May in approval ratings..

The Conservatives have a 1 % lead on economic competence - 33 % to 32 %; Labour had a 49 % to 27 % advantage at the last election.

The party ahead on economic competence is supposed to win decisively; yet if May's Tories won at all, for sure it was not decisive.

On the plus side, despite all the difficulties of the previous two years, Labour ran the Tories almost neck and neck on economic competence and leadership qualities.

Even after a recession, years of a flat - lining economy and plummeting real wages, Cameron and Osborne hold a substantial and growing lead over Miliband and Balls on economic competence.

As far as the two main parties are concerned, there's not much to divide them on economic competence.

«Labour is 11 % behind on economic competence and no opposition has gone on to win the next election when trailing the government on the economy, after two and half years... We are now further behind the Tories on the economy than at the time of the last election, and that's after all of the pain of the past two and a half years.

On economic competence, Labour's lead is down to 8 points compared to 22 points at the general election and, perhaps surprisingly given the Conservative party is in the midst of a leadership campaign, while both parties are seen as divided, more people think Labour is divided than the Tories (70 % compared to 58 %).

Labour were ahead in voting intention throughout most of the last Parliament, but were behind on economic competence and leadership, which are normally seen as important drivers of voting intention (the ultimate explanation of this apparent paradox was, of course, that the voting intention polls were wrong).

Just to point out that one of the «sub polls» of this poll put the Tories ahead on economic competence.

As much as I dislike Ken Clarke for his Quisling views, I do think that his new position is proving beneficial to us on economic competence.

However, that may not matter too much at the next election, if Cameron can build on the Tories» lead on economic competence.