Sentences with phrase «vote labour with»

The (formerly) industrial north of England traditionally vote Labour with barely a thought.

If it is being reported accurately there also appears to one very silly question in there — would people be more likely to vote Labour with a stronger leader?

Expecting middle England to vote Labour with a manifesto like this is like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas.

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The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors Co's South Korean unit dropped a plan for a vote on a bankruptcy filing after reaching a tentative wage deal with its labour union on Monday that helped the U.S. automaker win concessions on pay, bonuses and benefits.

But it seems that the Brexit vote — combined with the strong possibility that Corbyn may not even be a Labour leader by the next General Election — proved too much Piketty.

Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

By voting with them, Labour will be saying one thing and doing another.

Interestingly, the trend line is almost parallel with Labour's, suggesting that the parties are not competing for votes as much equally siphoning votes from Yesh Atid.

«I'm quietly confident, in a non-complacent way, that the people who are flirting with the Greens, a large number of them will end up voting Labour - for positive reasons, because we've got radical policies on the environment, we've got very good policies on addressing inequality, the housing crisis, the NHS.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

The voting period for the Labour leadership will open in mid-August and close on 10 September, with the winner announced at a special conference two days later.

I asked Boris, tongue in cheek, if he voted with the Government against Labour's tax credits motion.

With Liberal Democrats and Labour set to oppose the bill, it is certain to be voted down in the Commons unless he comes to a new deal with Nick ClWith Liberal Democrats and Labour set to oppose the bill, it is certain to be voted down in the Commons unless he comes to a new deal with Nick Clwith Nick Clegg.

And that's not the worst of it - Labour's manifesto has precisely nothing to say about the welfare cap, which has hit households with 200,000 children, and which Corbyn was propelled to the leadership by voting against in 2015.

Labour's share of the vote in Moray slipped by 3.3 % on polling day, with the Tories coming second to the SNP.

Forcing Labour and the SNP to actually physically go ahead and vote together while the issue was still undecided would be entirely in keeping with the party's approach.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

Because people were really pissed off with Labour, they voted SNP to the left of Labour, not to the right.

Had Labour achieved a higher vote share in the 2015 general election then Miliband would now be better known to Americans as the UK prime minister who is preparing forge a working relationship with Donald Trump.

Hunting became a particularly high - profile political issue in the late 1990s, with the election of Tony Blair's Labour government, which in its 1997 manifesto promised MPs a free vote on a ban on hunting with hounds.

Lib Dem candidate Ross Pepper came third with 3,606 votes, just ahead of Labour's Jim Clarke who was fourth with 3,363 votes.

What is especially galling is that New Labour have retianed the preachyness of the non conformist vote the inherited without anything but sheer bossiness to back it up with.

The AV vote is a Labour Party manifesto commitment, and despite popular belief I make it a point to vote in line with my party's manifesto.

Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory with 17,894 votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's general election to 6,357.

Citizen Corbyn, elected with more votes than the Tories have members as he's fond of warning sceptics, will parade his grassroots legitimacy at Labour's conference in Brighton next week where he's guaranteed a hero's welcome from the army of activists who feel this time they've really got their party back.

How to campaign enough to ensure Labour supporters get out and vote without looking to be in partnership with those who seem to regard these very supporters with contempt?

YouGov's research for the Sunday Times newspaper put the Liberal Democrat vote share at just nine per cent, with Labour on 41 % and the Conservatives on 34 %.

All progressives with any common sense will get out and vote Labour, recognizing Labour is clearly the party of progress.

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.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

It essentially became pointless with the introduction of FPTP for all seats, before that many seats used Block Voting and there were alliance slates in places (in some, Liberals, Nat Libs and Cons all put up one candidate each to LAbour's two; evidence was a lot of Lib voters supported Labour with second vote, but Tory and Nat Lib voters split all over the place).

If the Lib Dems had formed a coalition with LAbour, either in 1997 or in 2010, it would have been a predominant Labour policy agenda based on the votes cast.

But, polls show that at least 40 % of the British public, many of whom voted Labour in the last general election, agree with me.

It is an example of a European party with hard left policies winning votes, and comparisons with UK Labour underline just how radical Podemos actually is.

With Labour backing the Lib Dems, the Tories could only hope to win the close vote by buying the support of the nationalist and Northern Ireland parties.

In Witney, David Cameron's local area, Ukip split the right - wing vote, allowing Labour councillor Laura Price in with just ten more votes than the Ukip candidate.

Labour sought to inflict a significant Commons defeat on the Conservatives today with a vote on plans to privatise the probation service.

Labour former Europe Minister Keith Vaz told the BBC the British people had voted with their «emotions» and rejected the advice of experts who had warned about the economic impact of leaving the EU.

In both sets the vast majority of seats involve Labour defending vote shares of between 40 and 65 per cent with an average of 50 per cent.

In contrast, of the 65 % of 2010 Labour voters who voted NO in the referendum, 75 % stayed with Labour in 2015, while only 13 % voted SNP.

With so much of the 2015 UKIP vote now embedded in the Tory Coalition, and with Labour now more officially a party of soft Brexit, it is very difficult to see how the next election will play With so much of the 2015 UKIP vote now embedded in the Tory Coalition, and with Labour now more officially a party of soft Brexit, it is very difficult to see how the next election will play with Labour now more officially a party of soft Brexit, it is very difficult to see how the next election will play out.

Ukip's former deputy leader Paul Nuttall has set his sights on Labour supporters after easily winning the party's leadership race with 62.6 % of the vote.

This group of voters became dissatisfied with the Westminster government during the Thatcher era, felt forgotten by New Labour, and voted Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) en - masse in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

In terms of straight projected seats, Labour could even get a majority with just 34 per cent of the vote if the Liberal Democrats do really well.

In the 2015 general election, a staggering 90 % of these people voted SNP, while only 9 % stayed with Labour.

«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.

As Labour MPs voted with Tories, the Liberal Democrats claimed that the two parties were «holding hands towards a hard Brexit».

As with the 35 % of 2010 Labour voters in Scotland who voted «yes» to independence, the Labour Party currently offers little to the 27 - 33 % of 2015 Labour voters in Britain who want to leave the EU.