Sentences with phrase «party leader ratings»

So one needs some knowledge of the overall number of potential voters to interpret party leader ratings correctly.

Not exact matches

Trudeau's Liberal Party under a former leader swept to power in 1993 and won three subsequent elections — all of them while interest rates were stable or falling and the economy was relatively strong.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair announced Tuesday that his party would lower the small business tax rate to nine per cent from the current 11 per cent in two steps.

National Party leader and local MP Peter Walsh said rates and water charges were expenses dairy farmers were finding hard to manage.

Her approval ratings are also now the highest of any party leader across the UK, with even many English voters saying they would back her party next month given the chance.

At the end of last month Ed Miliband had net personal ratings of -46 % according to YouGov with 68 % of voters saying he is «doing badly» as leader of the Labour party.

Many have blamed Jeremy Corbyn for Labour's low poll ratings and one Labour peer recently suggested that his party would would win the next election «by a mile» with Balls as leader.

Our political experts have rated each party leader's performance.

Recently even key Corbyn supporters like Diane Abbott, Ken Livingstone and Unite union boss Len McCluskey seem to have suggested that the Labour leader has to improve the party's poll ratings in 2017.

And regarding changes over time, not many people know whether a party leader's rating is rising or falling.

This is not a foolproof measure: personal popularity rating can mislead us into thinking a party is unelectable if its leader is unpopular.

However, just as their net popularity ratings are all negative, the three party leaders and their economic sidekicks all have negative net ratings on running the economy.

The first was that her personal net satisfaction ratings have nosedived such that she is not only less popular than her controversial UK counterpart, Jeremy Corbyn, but also has displaced the Liberal Democrat leader, Willie Rennie, as the least popular of the main Scottish party leaders.

In a nutshell, Labour lead UKIP by 29 points in Doncaster North, not twelve; Miliband leads Cameron as best PM by 14 points, not one point; Miliband's constituents would rather see him as PM than Cameron; they give him the highest ratings of the four main party leaders, not the third highest; and they trust Miliband and Balls more on the economy than Cameron and Osborne, not the reverse.

Labour's travails can not be attributed solely to Corbyn's leadership performance; but as John Curtice has pointed out: «it can often be difficult to disentangle cause and effect in the relationship between a party's overall standing and the rating of its leader».

That was one thing, but failing to defeat current Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, whose approval ratings are subterranean, is quite another.

«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».

Of the four party leaders, he is the only one with a positive rating, with a net score of plus 25 among the general public (53 % say he is doing well, minus 28 % saying badly).

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UKIP leader Nigel Farage points to the Barnsley by - election result - where his party came second - and rising opinion poll ratings.

Former party leader Paddy Ashdown said poll ratings show «very little indication» of how people will vote at the next general election.

Ed Miliband's ratings are also unchanged this month, with just over a third (36 %) satisfied with the way he is doing his job as leader of the Labour party and two in five (43 %) dissatisfied, his net score of minus 7 being better than Cameron's or Clegg's.

Following a week of political scandal it was hardly surprising to see the collective poll ratings of the party leaders fall to their lowest levels ever recorded.

Furthermore, 43 per cent said he is the most competent party leader, narrowly beating Mr Brown's approval rating of 21 per cent.

The combined satisfaction ratings of the three party leaders are lower than at any equivalent point before a general election, a devastating new poll finds

Satisfaction ratings for the government and party leaders also show little change from last month, apart from a fall in ratings for Mr Miliband:

Nick Clegg is seen as the least trustworthy party leader (34 %) although this is a significant improvement from the 25 % he rated in December 2010 following the tuition fees vote in Parliament.

David Cameron remained the party leader with the highest satisfaction rating, with 42 per cent satisfied with his performance.

The new film comes 28 years after Kinnock The Movie — which former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock has credited with boosting his personal ratings and ensuring Labour came «second and not third» in the 1987 election.

Ed Miliband hit his lowest satisfaction rating as party leader, with just 28 % of people saying they approved of his performance and 55 % saying they did not, giving him a net score of -27.

History, however, provides no example of a party leader with a relatively low initial score significantly improving on their rating.

Just as party ratings follow a conventional rhythm, with oppositions having the chance to exploit the unpopularity of governments in mid-term, so do the fortunes of party leaders.

YouGov's latest survey of party leaders» ratings contains good news and bad news for Jeremy Corbyn — his problem is that the bad rather... (Comments: 588)

Ms Dugdale, who launched Labour's manifesto for the Holyrood election this morning, is the only Scottish party leader to have a negative approval rating, according to an opinion poll conducted by Ipsos MORI for STV News.

This contrasts with the other Scottish party leaders who all have a positive or neutral approval rating.

«Identifiers» who did not rate their own party leader highly were more likely than other «identifiers» to desert the party of their primary loyalty.

The Tory leader has seen her party's rating with the public go up by 10 points since April, despite being split over Europe after the Brexit vote.

He has the worst personal poll ratings of any opposition leader in living memory, Labour have been consistently behind in the polls since he took over, and in May we had the worst local election results of any opposition party in 40 years.

The congressional seat might be a more manageable target — it would come with help from Cuomo and party leaders in Washington, who see Katko as a ripe target if President Donald Trump's low ratings trickle down.

Liberal Democrat ministers have all too often been identified with defending Conservative policies, and the party's leader has personal approval ratings which make Michael Foot look like William the Conqueror.

The results will leave Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader who had hoped her call for a new 50p income tax rate would boost the party's popularity, facing calls to consider her future.

In today's Sunday Times (#) there were yet more unnerving polling results for Ed Miliband, receiving his lowest (negative) rating so far as Labour leader from the party's supporters.

There is also the perceived dislike of party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has a net leadership rating of -27 %.

If anything his party is doing slightly worse than before he became leader... despite George Osborne's announcement of spending cuts... despite an average disapproval rating for the Coalition of 10 %... and despite unhappiness about Europe and crime from the Tory base.

Three in ten are satisfied with his performance as party leader, while 56 % are dissatisfied — a higher dissatisfaction rating than Cameron, Michael Howard, or Iain Duncan Smith ever faced as opposition leaders.

Kirsty Williams, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, today urged the First Minister to support her party's calls to scrap business rates for plant and machinery in Wales and to reduce the level of VAT that is levied on the tourism industry.

«As the party leader battles low personal poll ratings, his opponents have seized on the fact his picture was missing from the election leaflet, though Labour insists he will feature in a second handout.»

The leader of the Unite union, Len McCluskey, has insisted he still supports Jeremy Corbyn after he suggested the Labour leader would consider stepping down if the party's opinion poll ratings remain low.

Under Mr Johnson, the Health Secretary, and Ms Harman, Labour's deputy leader, the party's rating would slip to 23 per cent, while under Mr Balls, the Schools Secretary, it would fall to 22 per cent.

Surveys of party members are quite rare, most of the time they only happen in the middle of a leadership election when there is no incumbent leader whose ratings we can compare.