Sentences with phrase «votes from labour»

Ukip has a «phenomenal» chance to take «many millions» of votes from a Labour party that is losing its «sense of purpose», Nigel Farage has said.

And later, in by far the most controversial decision of his leadership, he led his party in outright opposition to the war on Iraq, something that saw the Lib Dems taking large numbers of votes from both Labour and the Tories.

The opposition should benefit from division in the Tory ranks but research has shown that UKIP is also taking votes from Labour.

Given that there is also a UKIP candidate who may take votes from Labour, his selection has Labour worried.

Again, UKIP will hope that their policies are still relevant in the wake of the Brexit vote, and that they can take votes from both Labour and the Conservatives.

Next time round the Lib Dems hope to win votes from Labour voters dis illusioned with the government's performance and Tory voters angry at William Hague's lurch to the right.

So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

Ukip stressed it had also taken votes from Labour, notably from what it terms «the left - behinds» — older working - class voters.

A possible explanation is that Clarke would indeed win more votes from Labour as leader, but they would be partially cancelled out by Tory voters drifting away to UKIP or other fringe parties.

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said: «While George Galloway won't pick up enough votes to win, he clearly will take a number of votes from Labour.

But we are also picking up votes from Labour and from the Lib Dems as well.

ukip's sole purpose was to be the trojan horse, to draw votes from labour.

Also UKIP did not take that many votes from Labour either..

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.

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.

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.

This impressive show of support for a «no» vote from Labour brings together senior figures from every wing of the party and plenty of its new generation, including many MPs elected for the first time in 2010.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

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

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.