Sentences with phrase «where snp»

And that's where SNP's came from, that's where heteroplasmy rate change.

It is often overlooked that Labour really do very poorly in the northern part of Scotland where the SNP and Lib Dems have strength.

Safe Labour seats swinging slightly to the SNP a la 1992 wouldn't be totally out of the question I think, even if the referendum doesn't go through - the biggest effect in terms of parliamentary elections I think will be seen at Holyrood, where the SNP might fare badly in the future if they don't manage independence.

Where voters had the opportunity to vote against austerity, i.e. in Scotland where the SNP took a position to the left of Labour, they did so in droves and wiped Labour out.

The most marginal seat after the 2017 election is North East Fife, where the SNP beat the Lib Dems by a mere two votes.

That's a big nod to Scotland, which voted Remain and where the SNP is threatening to demand a new vote on independence.

The constituency was the site of a by - election in 2008 where the SNP gained the seat from Labour; the Conservative candidate at the by - election, Davena Rankin, is now standing in Glasgow South.

Most of the seats in this survey are in areas which returned a particularly strong yes vote in September, where the SNP attraction will naturally be greater; in future rounds of research we may find a different pattern where support for independence was lower.

«In areas where the SNP is already in administration much has been achieved, but we know there is more still to do.»

More plausibly Peter Franklin at Conservative Home argues the possibility of an arrangement where the SNP supply the «confidence» and the Conservatives the «supply».

Not everyone who opposes a second independence referendum is prepared to «lend» their vote to Ruth Davidson just yet, and from that Kezia Dugdale has taken a degree of heart, as her party has from the result in Glasgow, where the SNP emerged as the largest party but not with overall control as it expected.

The Smith report became damaged goods as soon as those UK parties were almost wiped out in Scotland, where the SNP won 56 of 59 seats while Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats won one each.

The top five biggest losses were in Glasgow North East and South, Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath in Fife and two Lanarkshire constituencies, Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill, and Rutherglen and Hamilton West where the SNP took comfortably over 50 %.

The biggest change in opinion over the past year has been in Scotland where the SNP have surged since the end of the referendum campaign.

Not exact matches

The 2015 election could well - produce situations where, for example, the SNP has a pivotal vote or one of English Votes for English Laws [EVEL] in which Labour supporters are disenfranchised in the way the Scottish electorate has been in the past.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

Corbyn won't win those voters back from the SNP, and nor will he help Labour recover in other suburbs, where voter turn - out is almost as high as antipathy to higher taxes.

The SNP could actually find themselves enabling David Cameron's nightmarish vision of lower pay in some regions, particularly northern (probably Labour - run) constituencies and in the SouthWest where some health trusts tried to break away from national pay bargaining during the last 5 years.

I can not see the SNP making much headway in an election where the emphasis will be on national, rather than devolved, matters.

Scotland's first minister and leader of the SNP told the Guardian: «With fixed term parliaments, it gives parties in a minority government situation --(where) hopefully the SNP will be in a position of influence — huge ability to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.....»

This brought him to the attention of party leader Tony Blair, and shortly after his defeat by the SNP he was welcomed at the Scottish Labour Party Conference in the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness where he spoke immediately before Blair in the critical debate on abolition of Clause 4.4 of the Labour Party Constitution.

The entrenched dominance of the SNP as Scotland's political voice remains unchallenged when two MPs denied the whip during inquiries into alleged misdemeanours, Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry, make suspended Nationalists the second strongest grouping in country where Labour, the Libs and Cons boast a single MP each.

For once, not a LibDem issue, but a broader one where UKIP came third in the popular vote and may have one MP whereas the SNP is significantly overrepresented in the UK Parliament according to its share of vote.

The council elections will give the SNP all the info they need on where to channel resources to stop the Tories.

In Scotland, where Labour remains positioned to the right of the SNP, it came third behind the Tories.

In seats where Labour is defending a majority of more than 25 points the swing in the poll from Labour to the SNP since 2010 is 24 points, rather higher than the 19.5 point swing for Scotland as a whole.

Given the SNP are unlikely to support a Queen's Speech unless they are needed to, and if they are needed then both SNP and LD voting together is incompatible with Nick Clegg's claim that,» I would never recommend to the Liberal Democrats that we help establish a government which is basically on a life support system, where Alex Salmond could pull the plug any time he wants.»

These longer term trends include: the ongoing decline in the Tory share of the vote; the building up of «third forces» in light of this Tory decline (mainly the Liberal Democrats but also the SNP in Scotland); and the inability of Labour to secure the levels of support achieved in the 1945 — 1966 period where it regularly won with levels of support of 43 — 50 %.

But the protestors remain as vociferous as ever, particularly in Scotland where anti-nuclear campaigners have called on the newly - elected SNP government to fulfil a manifesto pledge to press for the scrapping of nuclear missiles and a halt to their replacement.

Scottish National Party (SNP) MP Angus MacNeil, added: «It is with some alarm that I hear the attorney general is to involve himself with a matter where there is such an obvious conflict of interest.

By Sian Norris On Wednesday, SNP MP Hannah Bardell asked the prime minister to intervene on behalf of her constituent Lola Ilesanmi, who currently faces deportation to Nigeria where her three - year - old daughter is at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM).

Labour can face little more humiliation in Glasgow, where its last fortress - the city council - fell last month and all six Westminster seats are already held by the SNP.

The SNP manifesto sets out a number of areas where nationalist MPs would seek to make gains - by, for example, pressing for Holyrood to have greater financial powers.

«This is a terrible result for the SNP and Alex Salmond must be sitting in his bunker wondering where it all went wrong.

This is where we find out if those SNP rumours turn out to be true.

Under our first - past - the - post electoral system, the SNP will win a raft of seats where only a minority of voters want to leave the United Kingdom.

Both she and her first sponsor, MP Jonathan Edwards of Carmarthen, leaned heavily on the SNP's electoral successes in Scotland, where Labour has provided a much easier Blairite target for populist policies.

If the Liberal Democrats lost only 10 or 11 seats at the next election they'd probably be quite pleased... but remember, the Lib Dems also have around 10 English seats where Labour is the challenger and 11 seats in Scotland that could be vulnerable to either Labour or the SNP, so this is not the only battleground for them.

Sat in the Royal Box, SNP leader Salmond didn't quite make it to the first row, where Pippa Middleton and the Duchess of Cambridge sat.

Labour won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election from 1964 until 2015, where they lost heavily to the Scottish National Party; [12] every European Parliament general election from 1979 until being defeated by the SNP in 2009; and in the first two elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and 2003.

Despite being out of government, his party worked with the minority SNP Government on certain issues where they broadly agreed, including replacing the council tax with a local income tax to fund a proportion of local government revenue.

SNP supporters have been having a field day on social media mocking Labour for its mass abstention on the welfare bill, but Corbyn did vote against it and that will mean he will have gained some respect where the other leadership candidates will have certainly lost it.

Where exactly is the centre ground between the SNP, Greens, Ukip and middle - income English voters?

They will be voted down and unless the Tories can be induced to split, then Labour faces a bleak future where it continually fails to set the agenda while the SNP (north of the border) and the Lib Dems (South of the border) collect the Remain votes.

As he promised when he became Labour leader, Corbyn is visiting Scotland — where the party faces a dominant SNP in May's Holyrood elections — on a monthly basis.

From Labour's viewpoint, London began to look alarmingly like Scotland, where Alex Salmond won his stunning victory last year because one in five normally Labour voters switched to the SNP.

Mr Miliband faced protests at a campaign even in Glasgow on Friday, where his party is facing a tough race against the SNP.

As private debate within Labour circles intensifies on the terms of a potential deal with the SNP, Uncut has learned that some of Ed Miliband's closest advisers are plotting to sack Ed Balls in a bid to secure Ed Miliband's tenure in Number 10, in the event of a hung parliament where Labour is not the largest party.

There was a clear example not long ago, where the Holyrood victory of the SNP in 2007 was followed by Labour's «business as usual» general election victory in Scotland in 2010.

Insiders familiar with these discussions over the past few weeks describe a scenario where Labour would have to «reset its economic standing with the public» and demonstrate to the SNP that it would not be «wedded to austerity - lite.»