Sentences with phrase «traditional working class vote»

If middle class labour members continue to push progressive policies they may even lose even more of the traditional working class vote.

Not exact matches

The principle authors argue that this basic settlement survived both the revisionism of Tony Crosland and the changes wrought by New Labour in the 1990s, contributing to the defeat of 2010, and the situation where Labour has alienated large swathes, not just of the middle class electorate, but of its traditional core working class vote as well.

Labour seems to have decided in recent weeks that its first priority is to stave off the threat from Ukip to its traditional working - class vote, much of which supposedly voted to leave in the EU referendum.

The most senior Labour Brexiteer, Vote Leave chair Gisela Stuart, has warned the party's stance on the referendum is the «biggest recruiting agent for Ukip» imaginable, amid fears Nigel Farage will seek to capitalise on anxiety over immigration and challenge Labour's traditional dominance in working class communities across the midlands and the north.

Whether Britain votes In or Out, the gap between the Labour leadership and the party's traditional, working class base is only getting bigger.

This narrative becomes a shade more sinister when the dubious category of the «white working class» (apparently neglected more due to its whiteness than its class) is elevated to the status of Labour's «traditional» support — the «core vote» residing in the «heartlands».

- The UKIP vote came almost exclusively from the working class traditional Labour parts of the constituency (which did mostly vote leave but not emphatically so) and I suspect their ~ 5,000 votes last time split roughly 3,000 Labour, 2,000 Tory.

He also warned that Labour had to rebuild its working class base of support following last Thursday's elections: «It's the middle ground that's actually remaining with Labour, it's the core traditional working class areas and votes that are moving away.»