Sentences with phrase «point swing towards»

The figures — the first test of public opinion since the politician rocked Westminster by defecting to Nigel Farage's party — predict a record 48 point swing towards Ukip.

Staggering: The figures - the first test of public opinion since the politician rocked Westminster by defecting to Nigel Farage's party - predict a record 48 point swing towards Ukip

Not exact matches

They are convinced that, sometime in the remaining 92 days of this campaign, the opinion polls will suddenly swing ten points towards their party.

At the moment GB polls are pointing towards a 6 - point swing, or so, from Labour to the Conservatives.

April's Lord Aschroft poll of marginal Scottish seats saw a 26.5 % swing towards the SNP against the Scottish Labour leader, with the Scottish Nationalists now nine points clear in East Renfrewshire.

Fortty per cent agreed that the coalition had probably worked out better than just the Tories trying to go it alone, compared to 34 % disagreeing - a five - point net swing towards the government.

These seats had Labour and Conservative equal at the last election so an eight point lead here is the equivalent of a four point national swing and a one point Labour lead in national polls... pretty much exactly what the national polls have been showing lately (actually if you look at the crossbreaks of the poll they suggest a swing towards the Conservatives in the Conservative held seats, a swing towards Labour in the Labour held seats, but given the sample size of those two groups and that the poll is only weighted at the level of all forty seats I wouldn't put too much weight on that).

I switched on the torch and began walking down the road from the yard towards where he was still standing on the gentle slope, swinging his torch so that the beam moved slowly round in a circle towards the edge of the forest, across the road, along the river bank and back to its starting point.

We've always rather put the turning point of the Battle of Chesapeake - one of the most decisive naval battles in the American War of Independence that saw the British General Cornwallis» supply routes cut off - down to the masterful seafaring tactics of the French military, who intervened with devastating precision and rather swung the momentum of the war firmly back towards the Americans.