Sentences with phrase «political centre of gravity»

One test as Brown moves the political centre of gravity in his party to the left is whether he can hold together a coalition within his party of those who would be naturally suspicious of such an approach.

This would have broken the stranglehold of floating voters in Middle England marginals over the political centre of gravity, and would have rewarded Labour for mobilising support in its working - class heartland seats.

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In the totalitarian political systems, of which time will correct the excesses but will also, no doubt, accentuate the underlying tendencies or intuitions, the citizen finds his centre of gravity gradually transferred to, or at least aligned with, that of the national or ethnic group to which he belongs.

Mr Morgan acknowledge the challenges of minority government and said he would work «slowly and humbly» to find the political «centre of gravity» in Wales.

Talking to a shadow minister recently about the PLP, he told me: «The political gravity of the Labour Party is entirely centred around the 2010 intake.»

The second observation is to recall how the advocacy of an overt smaller state argument by many in the Coalition would, quite apart from polarising British politics like nothing since» 83, risk seeing the Left falling once again into a framing trap that pushes the centre of gravity in political discourse even further to the right.

It felt like the start of a possible shift in the centre of political gravity, with the SNP perhaps even finding itself outside the consensus in the way that Labour has been in recent weeks.