Sentences with phrase «traditional conservative supporters»

He tends to stray towards left of centre while his traditional Conservative supporters tend to be well right of centre.

62 % agree that «David Cameron should worry more about traditional Conservative supporters like churchgoers and less about winning support amongst non-traditional supporters like gay rights campaign groups».

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Far more urgent is the need for supporters of the «hate group» designation to explain how such a pronouncement doesn't immediately apply to thousands of traditional Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, and many millions of religious believers, who take conservative positions on sex and marriage.

Writing in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».

... We've got to be much more small c and big c Conservative on crime, law and order, some of our traditional policies... That's what our supporters are waiting, indeed gagging to see.

While Governor Paterson's directive received widespread approbation from same - sex marriage supporters, it was met with criticism from conservative legislators and from traditional marriage advocates, one of whom referred to the directive as Governor Paterson's «first major blunder.»

The question then becomes whether the GOP is able to sell that argument to its traditional supporters, including business groups and the Conservative Party, which provides a critical buttress for Republican candidates.

Nigel Farage has often claimed that UKIP appeals to a large number of traditional Labour supporters as well as being a threat to the Conservatives.

UKIP supporters are in many respects not traditional Conservatives - they are more working class and more disaffected from mainstream politics than typical Tory voters.

The union's leadership thinks the government has wrong - footed itself over this, antagonising grassroots Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, as well as its more traditional left - wing supporters.

Conservative supporters of the Bush Administration have expressed a particular contempt for the United Nations and its various institutions, reflecting both a frustration at the unwillingness of the UN to be stampeded into decisions and a shift away from traditional diplomacy to the wilful assertion of power, perhaps best illustrated by the appointment of America's most hostile critic of the UN, John Bolton, as US Ambassador to the world body.