Sentences with phrase «strong snp»

«So, yes, David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, if you are worried that a strong SNP is a threat to all that is deeply undemocratic and unfair about the Westminster notion of democracy, then all I can say to you is this: you had better believe we are.»

In fact, the expected Conservative majority would mean strong SNP numbers have practically no impact on this area.

If anything, we all underestimated how strong that SNP tide was.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, speaking at a campaign event in Leeds, said that a strong SNP showing was not in the interests of voters in either Scotland or England.

The stronger SNP presence will also serve as a constant reminder of the more pressing constitutional reform issues likely to dominate the new Parliament.

Not exact matches

The SNP's Callum McCaig has a healthy 9,000 plus majority in the granite city, but this seat is in the Tories» sights this time after a strong performance in the Scottish parliamentary elections from candidate Ross Thomson.

«The latest polls are welcome indications of the strong backing for the SNP we are seeing in communities across Scotland - while Labour are continuing to pay the price for working hand in glove with the Tories during the referendum, and lining up with them at Westminster to vote for more cuts.

It will be a choice between strong and stable leadership in the national interest, with me as your Prime Minister, or weak and unstable coalition government led by Jeremy Corbyn, propped up by the Liberal Democrats, who want to re-open the divisions of the referendum, and Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP.

Theresa May's strong response (remember Theresa May being strong was a thing six months ago) to the First Minister's demand fuelled the Tory revival north of the border that saw the Conservatives scoop 13 seats including those of SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson and his predecessor Alex Salmond, or as Ruth Davidson dubbed those two results: «Business and pleasure».

«What did help in terms of the Corbyn factor was it reinforced this idea that Labour's in a bit of a mess and isn't really strong enough to stand up to the SNP.

The SNP Westminster Group now works, as Winnie did, providing a strong, effective voice, protecting Scotland's interests.

The SNP has the problem that support for independence is strong enough to keep the party in office but too low to make it confident of securing its ultimate goal.

These figures suggest that for Labour to win back the voters they have lost to the SNP since 2010, they should take a strong positive stance of further devolution and more generally be seen to stand up for Scotland's interests.

Perhaps surprisingly, only 17 % of this group planned to vote for UKIP, suggesting that they are not quite the party of English Nationalism that Nigel Farage has suggested during the campaign.In Scotland, meanwhile, 56 % of those who considered themselves «strong Scottish Nationalists» planned to vote for the SNP, and just 19 % planned to vote Labour.

«It's also clear that they believe while the SNP will continue agitating for another referendum, they will resist such a move in strong numbers.»

The entrenched dominance of the SNP as Scotland's political voice remains unchallenged when two MPs denied the whip during inquiries into alleged misdemeanours, Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry, make suspended Nationalists the second strongest grouping in country where Labour, the Libs and Cons boast a single MP each.

YouGov also published a Scottish poll, which showed that the SNP's strong lead over Labour shows no signs of diminishing.

The area of the capital with the strongest Conservative vote, Edinburgh Pentlands was held by the late David McLetchie until 2011 when Gordon MacDonald won the seat for the SNP leaping from third place in 2007, leaving the Conservatives over 1000 votes behind.

However, the SNP were stronger on being against public spending cuts than Labour and were also in favour of scrappint Trident.

The SNP were also strong challengers, second place in three marginals behind the Conservatives (Galloway & Upper Nithsdale), Labour (Kilmarnock and Loudon) and the Liberal Democrats in a three way marginal with Labour also involved (Tweedale, Ettrick and Lauderdale).

But we forgot that the Tories remain the party with the largest number of votes and strongest parliamentary representation in the country, and that the SNP lost more seats to the Conservatives than to anyone.

The SNP will be hoping that the pattern repeats itself, with polling suggesting a strong showing from the pro-independence party.

Miliband was stronger when he spoke about the question around a coalition with the SNP.

And in Scotland, the SNP lost their overall majority after a strong showing for the Conservatives and signs of a Lib Dem fightback.

SNP campaign director Angus Robertson said: «This poll is another welcome indication of the strong support for the SNP across the country, as people continue to respond positively to the SNP's message of delivering investment in jobs and growth in place of Westminster's mindless commitment to cuts.

The pledge confirms what the SNP had promised throughout its election campaign, but has already provoked strong reactions from other parties in the Scottish Assembly.

Heading into the polling station in Barlanark, Mr Mason said: «I urge everyone in Glasgow East, young and old, to go to your polling station today, cast your vote for the SNP and send a strong message to Gordon Brown that it's time for a fair share for the East End.

Business convenor Bruce Crawford said: «This is a very strong poll rating for Scotland's government, with the SNP... being in a better position in the polls nine months out from the next Holyrood election than at the same stage before the last election.»

Another Twitter user called Melanie Bynes said: «She reminds me of the SNP's Mhairi Black, she goes straight to the point & holds nothing back, strong, committed young women.»

So far this year CCHQ has raised # 11.4 m compared with Labour's # 8.3 m, the SNP's # 739,000, the Liberal Democrats» # 483,000 and Ukip's # 432,000 — according to the latest figures from the Electoral Commission, giving the party a strong head - start in any early election campaign.

Angus Robertson said that with Labour searching for a new leader since Ed Miliband's resignation, the SNP will be offering a strong voice for people across the UK and not just for Scotland.

Ms Sturgeon told the BBC: «Given that we are, unfortunately, facing another Conservative government, it's all the more important that we've got a strong team of SNP MPs standing up for Scotland.

The SNP also had the strongest results for the statement «I know what the party stands for these days» with 80 %, followed by the Conservatives on 63 % and UKIP on 58 %.

[78] Labour, in reaction, produced ever stronger denials that they would co-operate with the SNP after the election.

Most of the seats in this survey are in areas which returned a particularly strong yes vote in September, where the SNP attraction will naturally be greater; in future rounds of research we may find a different pattern where support for independence was lower.

The Scottish MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey had some strong words for his SNP rivals.

After a strong start following last year's general election, the SNP MPs in Westminster have proven themselves to be everything that Labour is not.

These plotters with no self - awareness attack Corbyn when a third of Labour voters opt for Brexit at a time when Nicola Sturgeon is being seen as a strong leader when the same amount of SNP voters did likewise.

The stronger they perform, the more the SNP's narrative about the differences between Scotland and England will be underlined.

A sign of potential battle lines to come were demonstrated in Mrs May's speech this morning, in which she said voters faced a choice between «strong» leadership under the Tories and Labour «propped up» by other parties including the Liberal Democrats and the SNP.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are expected to make significant gains in England and Wales, while the SNP and Scottish Tories are expected to reap the benefits of strong opinion polls in Scotland.

Assuming SNP support holds strong, Curtice reckons Labour will need to lead the Tories by over 12 % in 2020 to form a government.

Vote SNP and get a Labour government with a strong Scottish accent.

This analysis revealed that a SNP called rs9349379, located hundreds of kilobases away, was the strongest risk factor for cardiovascular disease at chromosome 6p24.

The strong association of rs117026326 with SLE and the functional implications of nearby NCF1 took the team to their next hypothesis: that the rs117026326 SNP might tag causal variants of NCF1 that were not present in the 1000 Genomes Project database.

Because the SNP they were looking for was most likely not included in the Immunochip, the team turned to the 1000 Genomes Project dataset, where they found two SNPs that were not only not on the Immunochip, but also produced stronger LD signals with rs73366469 in Asian patients than European or African patients.

This SNP is currently regarded as being among the strongest genetic predictors of heart attacks and has been confirmed in several studies as a major risk locus for CHD.

The DNA methylation revealed a much stronger link to survival than all other previously studied alterations in individual DNA building blocks (SNPs, single nucleotide polymorphisms).

This SNP is also within a region associated with body size in this study (near HMGA2), although the strongest signal for ear position occurs nearly 0.5 Mb upstream, near MSRB3 (Figure S3).

The SNP calls for each of the data sets (except for Complete Genomics data) were optimized using the described combinations and the calls providing the strongest overlap with the Affymetrix SNP6 based SNP calls were selected.