Sentences with phrase «poll leads»

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.

«We've been reporting consistently lower poll leads recently for the Tories, at about five or six points — and this poll, in the seats they desperately need to win from Labour, is very much in line with that trend.»

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

While last night's local election results should bolster Tory confidence that their poll leads convert to the hard currency of votes, there is still plenty of room for things to go wrong.

The problem seems to lie in two longstanding journalistic habits: the tendency to focus on poll leads, rather than shares, and to interpret the poll leads in terms of the prevailing Westminster Village narrative.

They basked in the glory of massive poll leads.

Hatwal warns that Labour's regular poll leads could count for very little by election time, because...

My typical candidate pessimism often prevents me believing the poll leads, but there are plenty of fed up, former Labour Party supporters out there.

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.

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

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

Temporary blip or not, if they start to record poll leads over the Conservatives then the pressure really would be on the Tories and the media narrative would be even more in Labour's favour.

I really thought that national poll leads of 8, 9 even 10 points were the basis for victory.

Amid the poll leads, that for three months consistently topped 12 points, Team David thought they were on the road to Downing Street.

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

We've polled leading entrepreneurs on the art of the first sale, and here's what we learned on how, when, and where to focus efforts.

But the presidential race had tightened in the past week, as Trump closed in on Clinton's narrow polling lead.

Push Polls Led by Wildrose Party cheerleader Ezra Levant, the conservative - leaning SUN TV tackled the Tories for a push poll launched against Ms. Smith.

Klein declared «miracle on the Prairies» on election night in 1993, after he secured the Alberta Progressive Conservative dynasty's seventh straight majority despite a bruising provincial deficit and a strong challenge (and erstwhile poll lead) by the Alberta Liberals.

The Populus poll for the Times suggests that the debacle over defence secretary Liam Fox and a continued gloom over the economy are starting to deteriorate the governing party's poll lead.

General election 1970Although Labour had established a consistent double - digit poll lead during the run - up to the 1970 general election, Labour and its prime minister Harold Wilson were ousted.

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

This measure is worth looking at in more detail as voting intention polls led many forecasters astray in 2015.

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.

Even as the polls leading up to election night showed Slaughter in the lead, conventional wisdom kept telling me Republican voters would vote the party line.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

The Tories» poll lead is stronger now than it was then.

A forecast by a member of Corbyn's office that the Tory poll lead will be cut to single figures by Christmas reinforces both the height of the mountain to climb and the strapping on of climbing boots.

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.

In May 2012 Labour had a commanding poll lead over the Tories, even allowing for shy Tories.

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

Despite the polling lead, de Blasio successfully argued to the city's campaign finance board earlier this month that his campaign should receive an additional $ 1.6 million in public matching funds, saying the race was indeed competitive.

Jeremy Corbyn and his party performed poorly elsewhere in the 2017 local elections and with a large Conservative poll lead, the Tories expected to make large gains in the area at the general election.

Against a deteriorating poll lead and a recovering economy, Miliband really couldn't afford to take a holiday.

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.

Recent polls have shown Labour's national poll lead shrinking, with some even showing the Tories ahead.

His poll lead is deteriorating.

And thus far, it seems to be going swimmingly with an average poll lead approaching 20 %, even before the campaign proper has hit its stride.

However, Labour dismissed his comments as premature and point out the SNP gains are not as dramatic as Mr Salmond's poll lead predicted prior to the election.

So why can't Alex Salmond get a poll lead in an age of austerity?

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, armed with a $ 4.9 million campaign war chest and a double - digit polling lead over his nearest Democratic primary rival, is expected to cruise to victory on Tuesday, but not without a fight from four long - shot candidates.

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?»

Earlier this month, Labour's poll lead had dwindled to just three or four points, although one poll actually put the Tories and Labour on level pegging, prompting renewed speculation about Miliband's leadership.

Labour's poll lead started to creep up again today, as delegates in Brighton prepared for a speech in which Ed Miliband is expected to promise one million new homes.

Labour's poll lead has all but evaporated and his personal ratings have dipped from being merely dreadful to being utterly dire.

A growing number of Labour MPs are concerned that his sometimes ponderous professorial prognostications about political abstractions are proving a turn - off for the public - concerns that have grown as Labour's poll lead has shrunk.

What happened after that is we gained a double - digit poll lead, which hadn't been earned, and that acted as a disincentive to do all the heavy lifting, to go to all the difficult places after the 2010 defeat.

Ed Miliband is facing a growing revolt over this leadership, after his poll lead over the Tories evaporated and four in 10 voters branded him «weird».

Despite the narrowing in the Tories» poll lead and Theresa May's lacklustre campaign, most Labour insiders believe they are unlikely to advance on Ed Miliband's 2015 tally of 232 seats.