Sentences with phrase «opinion poll lead»

In fact, at the last general election, the Conservative party actually held a small opinion poll lead among teachers.

Labour have raced into a double - digit opinion poll lead over the Conservatives after the fall - out from the Budget and cash - for - access controversy, a ComRes survey for The Independent shows.

Well at the start of January, Labour had an average opinion poll lead of around one point over the Tories.

Sat on large opinion poll leads there is a temptation for the Conservative leadership to eschew radicalism but David Davis» desire for the party to be bolder on tax and defence is not only shared by the majority of Conservative members - and increasingly by voters at large - but is right for the economy and country.

The current opinion poll lead, while encouraging, is sustained during a period when the Labour Party has been in power for ten years, is prosecuting a deeply unpopular war and has a departing leader.

Faced with huge opinion poll leads, it was clear the upcoming election was Labour's to lose.

The question is more interesting in the light of the Conservatives» relatively small opinion poll lead and their internal debate, increasingly intense, about the direction of policy.

Equally, of course, they are very welcome to her political team who only have an eye for «Brand May» and her soaring opinion poll lead over Jeremy Corbyn's dying Labour Party.

Yet, the ease with which Prime Minister Theresa May was able to trigger the early election in light of her 21 point opinion poll lead over Labour over the Easter weekend appeared to cast doubt on its ability to deliver these aims.

For days, Sky News had a «Labour woes» strap on the screen as the party's opinion poll lead shrank and its grandees kept on twisting the knife.

Despite opinion polls leading up to the general election predicting a tight result, Labour decisively lost the 7 May general election to the Conservatives.

In a marathon election campaign swathed in uncertainty, one confident prediction can be made — the Conservatives will try to rivet public attention on the issues which provide them with considerable opinion poll leads.

Because of my interest, the selection is biased towards politics, some of which can be incredibly obscure, like, «Can Labour's opinion poll lead really only be three points?»

The consistent opinion poll leads of more than 15 % are in no small part down to Cameron personally.

Cameron was able to ride roughshod over criticisms of his strategy when he enjoyed big opinion poll leads but his election campaign changed that.

I suggest that current Conservative opinion poll leads are on the cusp of making a vote for the LDs safer and more profitable for potential LD supporters.

As such, a time when a narrowing opinion poll lead will be focusing minds, David Cameron should avoid getting involved in the row.

The parties in the coalition enjoy a combined opinion poll lead of about 20 points over Labour, with the Tories two to six per cent higher than their general election score.»

Although the party maintains a steady opinion poll lead, the deficits the party continues to run on leadership and economic credibility makes many nervous that the headline poll lead will hold water the closer we get to next May.

The Tories delivered almost exactly the sort of pre-election conference you would expect from a well - managed party sitting on a comfortable opinion poll lead.

«Stung by the reaction to the botched Budget and mindful of the strong opinion poll lead which Labour has opened up, there has been a concerted effort in recent weeks by the Conservative leadership to emphasise Tory themes.

Just because we are sat on excellent opinion poll leads that doesn't mean we shouldn't be maximising our support base.

Party strategists, who face a daunting task to erode a double - digit Tory opinion poll lead, are again preparing to boil down their pitch to the voters into five clear pledges.

«The party now enjoys a large opinion poll lead.

Labour's opinion poll lead over the Tories — which seemed to have all but disappeared a few weeks ago — is back up to four points in the latest Opinium / Observer survey.

As James writes in his column (not yet online) a failure to nurture key relations doesn't matter much when you have a double digit opinion poll lead.

Second, with an opinion poll lead as large as 21 percent, Mrs May can afford to lose a significant amount of support while still winning the election.

The sample sizes are small and a word of caution should be entered but it is still extraordinary that Labour does not have an opinion poll lead among this group of voters who must be considered at the heart of its historic core support.

The issue has split Clegg's party, with some senior figures holding out against the move on the basis that it is «short termist and opinion poll led», according to a government source.

The erosion of Labour's opinion poll lead over the past year is indicative of what could happen in the run up to the next election.

Conservative leader David Cameron has put a brave face on a dramatic decline in his the party's opinion poll lead.

The headline spin from The Sunday Times, however, is that the Tories are back to the same kind of opinion poll lead that they had at the very start of David Cameron's leadership.

The Tories maintain their large opinion poll lead.

Events are moving so fast now but MORI has just published an opinion poll lead for the Tories of just 3 %.