Sentences with word «waverers»

But some of the Lords amendments, including those on a customs union and on the meaningful vote, received significant Conservative support on the Lords, which could strengthen the convictions of waverers in the Commons.

Don't underestimate the ability of No 10 to win over waverers in the 100 - odd hours between now and voting time.

Their target voter, therefore, is no longer the Labour supporter outraged by Iraq, but the centre - ground waverer who won't back Red Ed, but isn't yet ready to sign in blue blood on the Tory dotted line.

Last night put the tin hat on his Arsenal hopes for me and I believe many other waverers too.

Bournemouth's bars and corridors are full of stories of late - night phone calls, even personal letters from Cameron, telling waverers it was their «patriotic duty» to prevent a Miliband - Sturgeon coalition.

Dorothy Sayers, around the same time, penned the lines, «This is the war we always knew,... / When no allies are left, no help to count upon from alien hands, / No waverers remain to woo, no more advice to listen to, / And only England stands.»

As Cummings unabashedly admits, he proposes this prospect in order to persuade waverers to vote «leave» at the first ballot, safe in the belief that they could always change their minds later.

But the real waverers will be keeping very quiet, of course.

In any case, such a referendum would be nothing like the one Cummings and others have floated, offering no comfort to waverers at all.

He effectively organised a shadow whipping operation from his desk, including a smart little email in which he told potential waverers that rebelling would actually help David Cameron.

He was criticised for his views on gay sex and abortion, which MPs in liberal, metropolitan seats said arose repeatedly as an issue with the public, and had helped Labour scoop up waverers even in strongly pro-remain constituencies.

Some aides said he had decided to delay the vote until the Lords vote in the hope of using the possibility of promotion to entice waverers to fall into line.

Sixty per cent of waverers said they wanted more than just a «yes» and «no» option, compared to 52 % of all Scots.

«If I was a more traditional right wing Tory Eurosceptic I'd probably have had an easier time with some of the Tory / Ukip waverers,» he ventures.

So far I've collected your ideas for the best doorstep Tory policies; the best attack lines on Labour; how best to describe our economic policy; and how to appeal to Lib / Con waverers.

Tories may use fear of hung parliament and financial crisis to drive waverers away from Liberal Democrats

Every time you write another few waverers have their doubts about the Climatocracy confirmed and fall into the sceptic camp.

AGW credulity is already a minority faith; but there is a further constituency of waverers, ready to break off like a melti...

The fear among the Tory high command is that a second convincing by - election victory for Ukip could encourage other waverers in the ranks to jump ship and join them.

Perhaps we must locate him somewhere among those waverers who have found a viable position between agnosticism and downright disbelief from which no visionary is likely to move them.

So be not thou of the waverers.

In Paul's apolo - getics, he cleverly antic - ipated and headed off any objec - tions or reser - vations that waverers might have; and once net - ted, sought to keep them that way.

What the letter does is to say to the waverers «you're not alone»: they can rest assured that they will be merely adding to their names to an already very long list if they do choose to rebel.

Grudgingly returning early, many MPs told me that Cameron had foolishly rushed into the vote and should have given himself more time to win over the waverers.

All Labour can do is try to shift some waverers, in both the business community and the electorate as a whole, who are doubtful of the party but not totally against it.

The feeling of Greenies was that while The Post was lukewarm on Mark, its red - hot attack on Ferrer would sway the waverers — and indeed, he won by about 20,000 votes.

That had won over a number of the waverers.

The polls may be playing down the importance of these waverers, but the undecideds I spoke to seem to be drifting in one direction in spite of the flatness of the «No» campaign.

His rhetoric is blending with those of the arch-eurosceptics, which will surely help win over the waverers.