Sentences with phrase «voted labour from»

I would hazard a guess that this is partly motivated by the desire to dissuade those who previously voted Labour from voting BNP.

I say that as one who voted Labour from my first vote in 1970 until Iraq.

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The rebels won the British parliamentary vote by 307 to 294 votes, a majority of 13, after they received support from the Labour Party, a generally pro-European group accused by Cameron of «rank opportunism».

I think many British Columbians, much like Albertans, have shrunk from voting NDP because they were seen as a party of labour leaders, professors and what my father would call «parlor pinks.»

Even if Labour gave a free vote, which is unlikely, the pressure from Labour constituency activists (not Labour voters) would force most Labour MPs to vote for the change: just a few people of principle will hold out.

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embryos.

New Labour prevented members from being able to vote on the party leader.

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.

All of this means that Cameron finds himself in a fairly tricky position, having to rely on mobilising Remain votes from large numbers of people who voted against him last May while hoping that the leader of the Labour Party will actually stand up and make a direct and unequivocal plea for voters to keep Britain in the EU.

Many of us had voted Labour come hell or high water because we were getting it in the neck from the Tories.

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.

«Under First Past the Post this would likely be disastrous for them, splitting the Labour vote and allowing the Conservatives or UKIP, or whoever, to gain more seats from them.

Labour is far from united on Europe, as October's vote on an EU referendum showed.

66 Labour MPs voted against Maastricht, including, in Bryan Gould, the only resignation from either front bench in order to do so, and outnumbering Conservative opponents by three to one.

Labour made a net gain of just two from the Conservatives, whilst the Liberal Democrats collapsed in suburban England and their south - western heartlands as the centre - left vote fragmented and centre - right voters moved over to the Tories.

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.

In fifth place this week is a piece which reported from Labour's PLP meeting ahead of the vote on Syria.

Last year, Corbyn's support soared after caretaker leader Harriet Harman instructed Labour MPs to abstain from voting against the Conservative's welfare bill at the second reading.

Nuttall - state school educated and from Bootle in Liverpool - also made it clear that his primary aim was to win votes from the Labour party.

But 20 % indicated they would be prepared to vote for the party most likely to stop the Tories or Labour from winning.

No Labour votes from the LGBTQI until equality means just that and we aer protected from hate crimes.

Labour could call for all elections, from the European Union to Parish Councils to be operated under the Alternative Vote.

Ireland's Labour Party is well - placed to gain votes from both Prime Minister Brian Cowen's Fianna Fail and the opposition leader Enda Kenny's Fine Gael.

In voting UKIP, they are breaking their historic Labour - voting habit, and the Conservatives might ultimately benefit from that.

Most of whose votes were anti Labour / Conservative Politics, so many are based on lies, and there is no line whatsoever to excluding the the voter from the governing process.

The man who secured over a quarter of a million votes from Labour Party members supporters and trade unionists as recently as last September is seamlessly elided into a deranged sect leader, ordering small numbers of isolated followers to top themselves in the fastnesses of a Latin American jungle.

The home secretary won the vote by 305 to 239, despite opposition from Labour and some Liberal Democrat and Tory MPs.

For example Labour currently wins large proportions of votes from non-whites (around 10 per cent of the electorate), public sector trade unionists (another 10 per cent of the electorate) and working age people whose main income is via the welfare system (another 10 per cent of the electorate).

From the Prime Minister's morning - after resignation on 24th June the country was mired in political chaos, with almost every political institution challenged and under question in the aftermath of the vote, including both Conservative and Labour parties and the existence of the United Kingdom itself, given Scotland's resistance to leaving the EU.

Nor could an alliance have been put together once Labour decided to support Brexit - the Lib Dems are seeking to win votes from both Labour and the Tories, while many left - wing Labourites have not forgiven Farron's party for the coalition.

For middle class voters to be backing the Labour manifesto isn't a total shock - it protected 95 % of people from tax rises whilst spending big on schools and the NHS - but for them to vote for Corbyn is a much bigger deal.

Taking a mandate from his small base (compared to the UK population and also the nine million people that voted Labour at the last general election), he and Momentum are sweeping the nation with a message of progressive change.

However, polling from the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary Institute, conducted in December, shows that eight out of ten Labour members either agree or strongly agree with having a second vote.

Labour's new poster highlights the workers» rights which Labour claims will be at risk from a Brexit vote.

And I see from today's Observer that David Miliband has also gone for the parody vote: «New Labour,» he declares, «isn't new any more.

To win an election Labour also needs to steal a significant number of votes from parties positioned to the right of it on the political spectrum, and right now that's not happening.

But if we take English seats - Scotland's battle lines are different, while the politics of Plaid in Wales are complicated - and combine the Labour, Lib Dem and Green votes in each seat from 2015 on one side, and Tory and Ukip votes on the other, then the Tories in fact do better than before.

An abstention by Labour would have prevented the PM from reaching a majority of two - thirds of all MPs, forcing her into the awkward position of taking the second path to an early election envisaged by the Act — a parliamentary vote of no confidence in her government.

Ealing Central and Acton has gone from a 274 vote majority to nearly 14,000 - a 25 % majority in what has overnight become a rock solid Labour safe seat.

Brian: if you can't see the difference between a minority Labour government that - in your words (from your original posts on this issue)- dares the Lib Dems to vote it down, and a coalition government based on a mutually agreed set of objectives, then you need to take a second look.

The British Election Study survey evidence suggests that Scottish Labour MPs will not be saved by incumbency effects or tactical voting, so the party will primarily need to attract a significant number of their former voters back from the SNP.

The evidence from the 2010 Labour leadership contest suggested that the vast majority of affiliated members did not vote.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

The 2010 Labour voters who voted Yes and now intend to vote SNP are noticeably different from other 2010 Labour voters in their responses to a variety of BES questions, but they particularly stand out in two principle respects.

He is not following a narrow core vote strategy, but clings to that old new Labour slogan from 1997 in which he claims to act for the many and not the few.

Corbyn's campaign may only want votes from genuine Labour backers, but will welcome the support of the broad left in Scotland.

That is why even today if someone is from an ethnic minority, even if they are highly educated or rich, they are much more likely to vote Labour than vote Conservative.

Of the September / October 2014 British Election Study (BES) respondents who voted Liberal Democrat in 2010 and still intend to vote Lib Dem, just 14 % strongly agree that, «government should redistribute income from the better off to those who are less well off», compared with 31 % for those that have switched to Labour.

[13] The Unionists with 47 % of the votes were outpolled by the Liberals and their allies from the Labour Party.