Sentences with phrase «voted labour last»

Just 55 % of people who voted Labour last year said the majority of its MPs back Remain, a survey for YouGov found.

There are voters who voted labour last year, pro the EU who will hold their nose vote Tory next time due to Jeremy, but have respect for Some brexiters like Frank field, Jon Cryer, David Owen

There are voters who voted labour last year, who are pro the EU, dislike Kate Hoey, but have respect for Some brexiters like Frank field, lord glasman, Tom Harris, Christian wolmar who will vote libdem next time, due to Jeremy,

Labour has the highest loyalty rate, but it is far from total: 74 % of those who voted Labour last time and are still alive would vote Labour today.

Even amongst those who voted Labour last year less than half (44 %) reckon the party would have done a good job.

Not exact matches

At last year's general election the party fell short of gaining the sort of Leave - voting Labour seats they needed for a majority.

«Watch out for Remain - voting areas swinging towards Labour and Leave - voting areas swinging towards the Tories, much as happened last year,» said Curtice, professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde.

It suggested Labour could pick up 51 % of the vote, a positive swing of 5.35 % compared to the last time elections were fought in 2014.

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.

The Liberal Democrats, for example, advocate lowering the voting age to 16 (p. 132), but they did that last time (p. 88), and so did Labour (p. 9: 2).

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.

«The northern correspondent of the Guardian wrote last Saturday that she knocked on the doors of a street in Oldham where nobody spoke English, nobody had ever heard of Jeremy Corbyn, but they were all voting Labour,» he told the BBC.

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.

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

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.

Last night Labour lost votes and seats to the Tories in Nuneaton.

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.

The polling companies showing the worst results for Labour are presuming young people will vote at roughly the same rate as in the last election.

Also, many voters - including Leave voters - reacted against austerity last year by voting for Labour, but the Tories have done little to change course on this and may now decide they don't need to.

Not only did many of them feel betrayed by the Brexit vote but many more turned their back on the brand of Conservatism offered to them last June in the election and instead opted for the empty and costly promises of Corbyn's Labour.

For sure, we don't know if the Ukip - mania will last for another two years; and if it does quite how that will play out in relation to the Tory / Labour / Lib Dem votes.

In each seat we spoke to two types of people: those who voted no to Scottish independence in 2014, Labour or Liberal Democrat in 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referendum.

Vote shares were Labour 33 % (down one point on last week), Conservatives 30 % (down two), Liberal Democrats 8 % (down one), UKIP 18 % (up four) and the Greens unchanged on 6 %.

2.15 pm Local Government: «Cllr Hall was elected the new Leader last night by 31 votes to 24 after a number of Independent Labour councillors abstained or voted for her.

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

Last night, 48 Labour MPs defied interim leader Harriet Harman's call to abstain on the Conservatives» welfare plans and voted against the Government.

Narrow Labour tribalism will always hold sway — just look at last night's vote on Heathrow for an example («I couldn't possibly vote for the motion — David Cameron tabled it!

If a similar pattern is maintained at these local elections — and it was in last year's county council elections — then the Labour vote will increase more (or fall less) were the Remain vote was higher in 2016, while the converse will be true of the Conservatives.

Last year, despite winning more votes the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority because the Labour vote share went up by more than did that for the Conservatives.

The pattern of the results across divisions suggests that relative to last year new UKIP votes have come as much from Labour as from the Tories.

Since last month's poll, in the constituency vote the SNP were up one per cent to 53, Labour were also up one to 22, the Tories remain on 16 and the Liberal Democrats down one on six.

Vote shares for the four biggest parties remain unchanged since last week, with the Tories on 30 %, Labour on 29 %, UKIP on 16 % and the Liberal Democrats holding on to their 10 %, a result which party president Tim Farron joked was causing champagne corks to pop at Lib Dem HQ last week.

Mr Dugher was one of 66 Labour MPs who defied Mr Corbyn last week by voting in favour of the RAF extending its anti-Isil bombing campaign from Iraq into neighbouring Syria.

Last time around, there was almost a three - way dead heat in the battle for the first time vote, with Labour on 31 per cent just edging ahead of the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats on per cent.

The anti-EU UK Independence Party led by populist Nigel Farage scored major gains and was leading the opposition Labour party and Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives in early results from Britain, where voting took place last Thursday.

(The fact that this is often said by people who both regard themselves as working class and voted Conservative at the last election probably says as much about the strength of the Labour brand as it does about the caprice of voters).

No wonder, then, that the north - east of England rejected the Conservatives almost as decisively as Scotland at the last election: less than 24 % voted Tory, while Labour — facing its second worst result since 1918 on a national level — won nearly 44 %.

Limiting ourselves to the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Labour party (since the Greens, the Northern Irish parties and the Nationalists all have broken sequences) the last 6 elected leaders had the following vote shares on accession:

Last year Labour's vote share was estimated to be narrowly ahead of the Tories.

Only ten per cent of Labour Party members support Brexit, but up to one - third of people who voted Labour at the last general election want to leave the EU.

These are phrases we have been hearing a lot in the last 48 hours following the avalanche of abuse and intimidation directed towards those Labour MPs who voted - or were merely weighing up - intervention in Syria.

In just under a week, Jeremy Corbyn will almost certainly be re-elected as Leader of the Labour Party — and, if all the credible indications we have are correct, perhaps by a wider margin than the 60 per cent or so of the votes that he received last year.

The other big news in the last seven days is that the Labour Party have now officially come out against the possibility of a formal coalition with the SNP, in part to reduce their vulnerability to the Conservatives adopting a «Vote Ed, get Alex» strategy.

Its fall in support was partially reversed for five months from last September — a period when Labour MPs voted against attacking Syria and plans to freeze energy prices and repeal the Bedroom Tax were announced.

More than three quarters of all voters, including a clear majority of those who intend to vote Labour on Thursday, think the last Labour government «must accept a large part of the blame» for Britain's economic problems; Mr Miliband is unlikely to succeed in his campaign to persuade the electorate that this idea is a «big lie» put about by the coalition.

Gordon Lindhurst is an advocate who stood for the seat of Edinburgh South West (which includes Edinburgh Pentlands) in the Westminster election last year when he came third behind Labour's Ricky Henderson (succeeding Alistair Darling) and the SNP's Joanna Cherry who won almost as many votes as the Labour and Conservative candidates added together.

The SNP's Martyn Day effectively reversed the Labour and SNP position in the Westminster constituency last year, winning 52 % of the vote (Labour's Michael Connarty had won 50 % to the SNP's 25 % in 2010), so Angela has something of an uphill battle to defeat Fiona.

Harper voted against all the reform options in the last parliament when Jack Straw made a late attempt in the final years of the Labour government to burnish its reformist credentials.

Almost inevitably, those who voted Labour in 2011 particularly react adversely to the former prospect, Conservatives to the latter, while in both cases they are joined in switching towards Yes by some voters who did not vote at the last Scottish Parliament election.

This is the same Eddie Izzard who went up and down the country last year calling on the public to vote Labour and keep a discredited Gordon Brown in office as Prime Minister.