Sentences with phrase «vote winning policies»

Lord Forsyth could replace Mr Letwin as policy chief thus allowing us to get some vote winning policies while Eric Pickles gets the Chairmanship.

This leaflet from our candidate in South Ribble, Lorraine Fullbrook, caught our eye as a simple summary of the party's main vote winning policies.

The most effective vote winning policies are ones which are popular on their own, but which also tell a bigger story about the party's values and are consistent with their other policies - opposing the Iraq war and top - up fees were both popular policies, but also clearly signalled to disillusioned Labour voters that the Lib Dems shared their values as a centre - left party of peace and public services.

This sounds like a vote winning policy.

Not exact matches

For Greenleaf, the policies put forth by Johnson and Weld, plus their collective experience governing their home states, are likely to win his vote.

Pushing higher tariffs may win Trump some votes, but his politics would yield awful economic policy.

SHARE director of law and policy Laura O'Neill said the only other directors she knows of who failed to win majority support this year were on the board of Quebecor Inc., where holders of class B subordinate shares voted just 43 per cent in favour of electing the entire board as a slate.

Just as Ryan keeps insisting, contrary to all evidence and common sense, that people don't care whether you cut their taxes or those of their bosses, he will keep insisting that his unpopular policies will win over Democratic - leaning voters, even as those voters keep voting Democrat.

In 2010, the Tories won just 16 % per of that ethnic minority vote and critics say recent policies, such as the «go home» vans, will have done little to improve that result in 2015.

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.

The reason why there is an assumption that the Republicans won't vote against Trump in unanimous lockstep, like they did as a matter of policy with Obama, is if the Congressional Republicans basically declare war on their own party leader, no one but the Dems can win (given their track record, that's not a given, either), short or long term.

The burden would be on you to establish the correlations you claim between the payment of tax by individuals and the marginal winning vote and policy victories by state.

I've rarely known a conference when hours outside the hall are not as much filled with real policy debate and lobbying to win the votes on the floor, and fringe meetings for or against certain proposed policies, as exchanging campaign experiences, or party gossip.

So as we look ahead to the launch of manifestos, a keen focus on the most emotive policy areas, those that voters identify clear values with, will be key to winning both the head and heart vote.

This applies all the more when a policy's vote - winning ability seems largely to rely on lying about its being a progressive measure to help the poorest.

In 2005, Michael Howard's policies of being tough on immigration were extremely popular, but didn't help the Tories win votes.

According to YouGov, 71 per cent of those who voted for Corbyn in the leadership contest believed parties should put forward policies «irrespective of whether they help to win elections».

Tony Benns view that the electorate were wrong for not voting for us, was only matched by, the view after 1992, the electorate haven't voted for us 4 times now, what's wrong with them, Or the union boss who said he'd told labour what policies to have and then when labour had lost, and that it was this fault for telling us to have policies we didn't want, but labour for not being any good at winning in those policies

In my North Kent hinterland I can see this policy going down like a bucketload of cold sick in towns Labour needs to win, towns which are alienated and impoverished (more so than Canterbury which we won) but elected Tories — and voted Leave in droves — such as Gravesend, Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Sheerness.

Without a driving policy issue in the race, who votes, and therefor who wins, will be a combination of voter awareness and motivation.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the Democratic win, in a district where Republicans outnumber Democrats, is a vote of confidence for the president and his policies.

It has hobbled the ability of the Democratic Party, which technically won a majority in the state Senate in 2012 and 2016 (Republicans won the majority in 2014), to push for progressive policies in areas like health care, voting reform, reproductive rights, and immigration.

The Lib Dem leader in his conference Q+A rode on his relief from winning a vote on economic policy this morning by continuing to confront the left of his party

«Labour will only win another election with a policy approach that wins back people who have moved to voting Conservative and Ukip, as well as to Greens and SNP.

Possibly riding high on the relief — rather than out - and - out joy — of winning an important symbolic vote this morning when a motion was put to the conference hall on continuing the coalition's economic policies was carried, a debate where the Lib Dem leader himself summed up, he continued to push coalition strength and struggle over capitulating to his party's leftwing.

The Lib Dem leader is keen to use his drug policy to win back votes from young people he may have lost over tuition fees, but there's a price to be paid for that and the Daily Mail and right - wing think tanks are intent on making sure he pays it.

The argument against Corbyn isn't about his personal image and manner though, it's that he'd put the Labour party in a ideological and policy position that wouldn't win votes, that the Labour party itself would risk ripping itself apart under a leader with little support among the Parliamentary party and a long history of rebellion.

He called on Cameron to be honest about where the party was heading instead of «constantly lurching, thrashing around» with new eye - catching policy initiatives designed to win back people who are voting for Ukip.

Mr. Turner, you will recall, won election to the Brooklyn Queens Congressional seat held by Anthony Weiner by making an explicit play for the votes of religious Jews in a race that turned on President Barack Obama's perceived weakness on Middle Eastern policy.

These polls, detailed though they may be, are just a snapshot and the SNP are taking nothing for granted — hard work and good policies are what win votes and we know the scale of the challenge we face if we are to make gains.

Used intelligently, the Conservatives» distinctive policy can win them votes.

The base that votes for him, in large part, is voting not for specific policies, but for «can do», «win at all costs», attitude, after being saddled for 2 decades with - using Trump's terminology - «losers» (specific ways of losing vary - either letting the opposition dictate the terms of discourse and the struggle, by refusing to use all available tactics; or always folding in negotiations like GOP in the House kept doing with Obama; or simply not getting desired outcomes - and specifics are largely irrelevant to the overall sentiment).

Recall that the SNP won 56 of 59 seats in Scotland with a manifesto committed to promoting anti-austerity policies, and that the 45 % who voted Yes to independence were more likely to be driven by left - wing ideas than No voters.

Childcare was in outline highlighted in the midterm review as one of the major new vote - winning coalition policies due to be unveiled shortly.

He won 52 % of the vote in his constituency in the general election and was a vocal opponent of the coalition's tripling of tuition fees, one of the policies that most damaged the Lib Dems.

While the hard right of the party, by subscribing to economically illiterate and socially unjust policies of austerity are consigning themselves to fourth place in the Party's leadership election, the Corbyn campaign is capturing all the headlines — and maybe, a substantial enough portion of the votes to win.

Now if we are driven into voting for UKIP, which does still espouse many Traditional Tory Policies, is unequivocal on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and which has eschewed all the Eco-rubbish which has beguiled the other political parties such as New Labour, New Conservative and the Lib Dems, this may not win any seats for UKIP at the next General Election, indeed they will be lucky to hold onto Bob Spink's seat at Castle Point under FPTP.

It came despite Jeremy Corbyn unveiling what are generally seen as vote - winning policies, including a vow to raise taxes only for people earning over # 80,000.

Last week Amanda Ramsay won the «top of the policies» vote at Pragmatic Radicalism's top of the policies event in Bristol, chaired by Maria Eagle MP, shadow transport secretary.

He is also an anti-nuclear campaigner, although his public backing for Sir Menzies Campbell's «wait and see» policy on replacing Trident helped the party leader win a crucial conference vote in 2007.

In the ConHome survey of members, there is an even split on whether the «Big Society» rhetoric is winning votes on the doorstep (39 % / 39 %) but a whopping 97 % want much more detailed policies from David Cameron's mouth.

I suggest that labour - uncut, goes off, thinks up a few sensible policies, that are relevant to a government of 2020, maybe has a few ideas on the EU referendum, and accepts that the Corbyn fans of Students who read a article about how, capitalism is bad, because there was enough money for everyone in the 80's, and the Tories only got in because people who voted for them were dumb and read the Daily mail, because you're not going to convince anyone that labour Will be destroyed in 2020 ′ because the Tories may implode over infighting like they did with Westland or ousting Thatcher, but win in 87 ′ and 92 ′ anyway

Washington, DC specializes in bad policy, if it wins votes.

Of course, come election time, policies crafted to win votes take precedence.

As a result, it's a bit of a mug's game when it comes to establishing how much — or little — the middle class is struggling and what kind of policy changes would at least win votes, if not actually have a positive impact.

Whoever wins, a responsible climate change policy will not be forthcoming, but of course, there are other issues of importance for Americans, leading them to vote for one or the other candidate.

«You win the tattooed vote and we'll have the damnedest environmental policy anybody ever saw.»

The NDP is working hard to staunch the loss of votes to the greens; a canvasser had me on the phone for half an hour explaining how the NDP could win this riding, how the Greens are not so green with economic policies that are almost libertarian, with, heaven forbid, a bias towards consumption taxes instead of income taxes!