Sentences with phrase «support for labour»

We've had a lot of response to our support for Labour and I think to many people it's been either hard to understand or misunderstood.

Asked what he saw as the probable outcome, Mr Salmond said: «I think probable would be vote - by - vote (support for Labour), and possible would be confidence and supply.»

The apparent success of the Tory party in the polls owes more to the implosion of support for Labour and the ineffectiveness of Clegg (another overgrown rich boy with zero achievement outside politics; they should have stuck with Vince Cable).

Lord Ashcroft's much smaller exit poll puts support for Labour among young people even higher, with 67 % of 18 to 24 year olds voting Labour and 18 % voting Conservative.

The ICM poll findings do not appear to reflect any change in the underlying support for Labour since the party's standing of 36 % remains unchanged on last month — although party supporters may hope to dismiss it as an outlier.

That discrepancy can only be satisfactorily explained by accepting that the polls have consistently understated support for the Conservatives while consistently overstating support for Labour.

If we are to win back support for Labour then we have to provide an alternative, TINA has been tried over the last two elections without success.

The polls show overwhelming support for Labour's policies on, say, an energy price freeze or controlling private rents.

He said: «It sounds like at long last they've started to read the runes and realise that the biggest fall in support for Labour is among the traditional working class.

What really matters, rather than the manoeuvrings of paid professional politicians inside the Palace of Westminster, is building support for the Labour Party in the country.

This was too much for the delicate sensibility of the New Statesman, which abandoned its traditional support for the Labour cause and urged people to vote Liberal Democrat.

Paul Marsden (Shrewsbury and Atcham)- Resigned from the Liberal Democrats and declared his support for Labour on 5 April.

There seemed to be a lot more support for Labour this time.

Ed Miliband's commitment to maintain the higher level of tax, as well as his support for Labour's links to the unions is being directly challenged.

It does become a problem if it is an indication of soft support for Labour, if the government become less unpopular once they have a better economy behind them, if minor parties establish themselves as alternative recipients of anti-government votes or if during an election campaign it becomes more of a choice between two alternatives, rather than a judgement on the incumbent.

ICM's director Martin Boon said earlier this month that support for Labour has only fallen this low only twice since it began conducting regular surveys, in June and August 2009, when Gordon Brown was prime minister.

Support for Labour has slumped to just 23 per cent, suggesting last week's local elections were not a low point for Gordon Brown's party.

Support for the Labour Party is at its lowest level since the 2015 election, according to a recent ICM poll for the Guardian.

By March 1997, many of the leading newspapers — including the Sun, once a staunch Thatcherite paper — had declared their support for Labour.

Further support for Labour open primaries for Parliamentary candidates has come from the ubiquitous and decidedly non-socialist Douglas Carswell.

The levels of support for Labour and a splinter party seem to be roughly the same regardless of which side of the party leaves.

I sense that there is a realc ollapse in support for Labour.

Support for Labour dropped by one point to 27 %, with Ukip on 13 %, the Lib Dems on 9 %, and the SNP and Greens both on 4 %.

Barely one in seven voters think Jeremy Corbyn should be prime minister, according to a new poll which revealed that support for the Labour leader has hit a new low.

Support for the Tories is at 39 %, unchanged from last month, while support for Labour has gone up by two points to 26 %.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell suggested that support for Labour would pick up as the general election gets closer and Corbyn gets more TV airtime.

However, support for a Labour government remains lukewarm in Scotland.

SUPPORT for Labour continues to trail behind the SNP in Scotland, a new opinion poll has indicated.

In other words over the course of the campaign Corbyn increasingly appealed to voters who had previously been unimpressed, helping them win new support for Labour, dramatically narrowing the gap to the Conservatives.

The Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has hinted he will withdraw his support for the Labour party if progress is not reached on Crossrail before the next election.

If these collective levy - payers wanted an individual relationship with the party, they could register as affiliated supporters (AS) by signing a statement of support for Labour values, giving the party contact details including a postal address, and confirming that they were on the electoral roll.

Today's poll suggests support for Labour and the Lib Dems is up 1 per cent each on last week.

Support for Labour has increased because people think the action they've taken is actually working.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

Members of the public can pay # 3 to confirm their support for Labour's values, and in return are permitted to vote in leadership elections.

They would need to sign a statement affirming their support for Labour's values.

Support for Labour continued to erode (with it standing at 30 - 32 % in opinion polls) in the months up to Blair being forced from office in April 2007.

For men, the support for Labour is 41 %, with the Tories edging in at 42 %.

As for diminishing the «experience of those millions of people systematically murdered by totalitarian governments» - well, clearly the irony of that statement in the light of your continued support for Labour is - lost on you.

SNP Campaign Director John Swinney said: «This is an encouraging poll which shows a significant lead for the SNP amongst older people and a further fall in support for Labour amongst some of their traditional voters — highlighting just how far Labour have come from their founding principles.

Lesson five: Jeremy Corbyn had quite definitely not killed support for the Labour Party.

He was quoted by the Sunday Telegraph newspaper as predicting a «huge collapse in financial support for the Labour party» which would result in «a one - party state for years to come».

Or, will the EU referendum teach these voters that opposition to the EU membership is incompatible with support for the Labour Party?

By the time historically Labour supporters cast their «yes» votes, they had been led to conclude that support for independence was incompatible with support for the Labour Party.

Having dramatically taken away its support for Labour at the party's autumn conference and given its backing to David Cameron, the electorate suddenly became churlish enough to deny the Tories an outright victory.

Both are Tory bastions which were flagship councils under Margaret Thatcher, but factors including the EU referendum have pushed up support for Labour, which advocates a softer position on Brexit than the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

Strangely, Labour leader Corbyn called for May to trigger Article 50 the day after the referendum, despite supporting «Remain.»

The Province of Ontario, organized labour, senior's groups and 78 % of respondents to a union - sponsored Environics poll have all indicated strong support for the CPP option.

Like Cameron, Miliband sounded like a lover pleading for his partner not to leave, telling an audience of Labour supporters near Glasgow that he supported Scotland with «head, heart and soul,» and promising change if the union stuck together.

Further to the issue of skills shortages, the government has announced the re-allocation of $ 4 million for a «labour market information portal» and another $ 7 million to «support the relocation of youth and immigrants to areas where job opportunities exist.»