Sentences with phrase «while ukip»

Among the smaller parties, the Lib Dems have failed to break out from their pre-campaign doldrums, while Ukip has slipped back significantly from its peaks of last year.

On the parlous state of British politics, he said the Tories have «no answers to the discontent people feel,» while UKIP were «wildly wrong».

While UKIP supported migrants coming to the UK to fill specific jobs - where there were skills shortages - he said economic problems in the eurozone meant the influx of low - skilled labour to the UK was likely to accelerate and questioned the social and cultural impact it had had.

While UKIP has always held policies in this libertarian vein, such as flat tax, it has never had someone with the communication abilities of Carswell to get them across to the public.

The Conservatives made gains, while UKIP won control of its first council, Thanet.

11.30 am Daniel Finkelstein is not convinced the Conservatives will win by as tight a margin as they are suggesting: «If the Tory vote is up (as Labour say) and Labour has done sufficiently badly that it is contesting second place with the Libs while the UKIP and Green vote is hefty, it surely follows that the Tories must have a decent majority.»

While UKIP and the Liberal Democrats will marginally increase their presence, the number of independent candidates will shrink twofold.

While Ukip's projected national share of the vote fell, it increased its number of councillors by more than 150 — from just nine in 2010 — by focusing resources on target areas.

Only this week the Tories voted against supporting 3,000 unaccompanied vulnerable child refugees, while UKIP want to pull up the drawbridge.

Labour (32 %) is the party most trusted on the NHS, while Ukip (33 %) is the party most trusted to control immigration.

While Ukip has been commanding the headlines, and the prospects of the Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party cause political number - crunchers to scratch their heads, the Greens have been gradually gaining ground.

Indeed so: when he stood against Labour MP Bob Marshall - Andrews (now retired) in Medway (the old name for this slightly redrawn seat), he was 213 votes behind the successful Labour candidate, while UKIP trailed in fourth with 1,488 votes.

The Liberal Democrats concentrated on education, while a UKIP figure suggested himself as a future leader, as the two parties launched their election manifestos on Wednesday.

Third, while Ukip voters in general are disadvantaged, its loyalists are the most left behind.

But these are not scattered evenly; big clusters are in Croydon (42), Bromley (35), Havering (30), Hillingdon (24) and Barking and Dagenham (21), while Ukip is almost absent in the more affluent London boroughs of Islington, Kensington and Chelsea.

And while Ukip depends on fewer than 20 full - time staff, the Conservative war room is filled with rows of researchers, overseen by the legendary strategist, Lynton Crosby.

We will deliver Brexit and more control on immigration - while UKIP continue to squabble on the sidelines.»

Labour held on to its seat with a comfortable majority, while UKIP beat the Conservatives to second place.

The Liberal Democrats were cut to two members while UKIP lost all three of the seats the party won in 2013.

New research from Facebook has found that Conservative supporters are often fans of Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners, while Ukip supporters prefer to watch Mrs Brown's Boys.

The vote was proof that while Ukip is much more dangerous for the Tories, it is also a real threat to Labour.

While UKIP voters were as likely as the electorate as a whole to admit they didn't know what to expect, two thirds of those expressing a view thought the Conservatives would be back in government; most of these said they thought the Tories would win outright.

While UKIP's recent success in the Welsh elections could be an obstacle to this alternative, the party might also campaign for transforming the UK into a real federal state, with increased devolution for everyone.

But it is clear that there is still ample room for switching and if that potential were to be used, that the Conservatives are more likely to gain than to lose as a result, while UKIP is more likely to lose than to gain.

The Telegraph asks the question and highlights Ed Balls» victory - won by only 1,101 votes while UKIP polled 1,506.

As several other recent by - elections have shown, while Ukip's surge costs Labour votes, it costs the Tories seats.

At opposite ends of the spectrum, it's not surprising that the Greens have an excellent and comprehensive suite of environment policies, while Ukip offer measures that, if implemented, would spell disaster for the planet.

While Ukip ultimately failed to win more than one seat, almost nobody foresaw that the party would actually hold on to nearly four million voters.

While Conservative and Labour supporters equally back their man, Liberal Democrats lean towards Labour's Ed Balls (49 % to 27 % for Mr Osborne) while UKIP supporters break towards George Osborne (46 % to 25 % for Mr Balls).

Meanwhile Tory MEPs voted against a report on paid paternity leave, reducing the gender pay gap and combating violence against women, while UKIP MEPs opposed investigating tax evasion and avoidance, capping credit card charges and labelling processed meat with its country of origin.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats say they have already taken action to tackle the problem, while UKIP says Labour's proposals fail to address the real issue.

The Conservatives have quadrupled their majority on Essex County Council while UKIP has lost all its seats.

The Conservative vote also declined, while UKIP, Labour and the Greens all improved on their 2010 performance.

The Liberal Democrats are on 7 while Ukip has collapsed to just 4.

And while UKIP has been consistently running at 14 - 15 % in voting intentions over the last year, a similar score in the general election of next year could bring a meagre return in seats.

And, while Ukip did indeed attract more former Labour voters during the later New Labour years, they have won a substantially higher proportion of Tory voters since the coalition came to power.

But while UKIP is a new kid on the block, it belongs to a long tradition of mid-term insurgents.

Latest survey puts Labour four points ahead of Tories, while Ukip builds on Clacton byelection success with 14 % rating

Meanwhile, the Greens and Lib Dems are hacking away at Labour support on the left, while Ukip and the BNP chip away from the right.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

The Conservatives appear poised to gain some votes from their coalition partners while UKIP continue to pick up votes from all three main political parties (see UKIP: Picking up lumps of old Labour support?).

And while Ukip have arguably joined the political big league, the Greens appear to be getting squeezed.

The party has changed its constitution to prevent unauthorised use of the Ukip logo by supporters, members and officials, while Ukip's chairman has warned those tempted to join Twitter: «My advice: just don't.»

While UKIP appear to have consolidated their position over the course of the campaign, Labour have declined from the mid-twenties to the mid-teens.

While UKIP has few / no MPs it is not unreasonable to say that they have taken votes away from the Conservative party in recent years and potential UKIP voters are seen by many as key in some marginal constituencies especially in «working class» areas where many voters are socially to the right and economically to the left.

Nigel Farage, he feels, straddles these two sides quite effectively, while UKIP's new MP Douglas Carswell sits more firmly in the former camp (although it must be said that he seems to be very popular with many of his working class constituents).

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas successfully defended her seat in Brighton Pavilion, while Ukip has yet to win a single seat and their vote share has reduced.

Not exact matches

For the leavers, it makes sense to have Ukip appeal to their traditional supporters while Vote Leave reaches out a different constituency.

In other developments, reports emerged of Nigel Farage allegedly holding fascist views and singing pro-Hitler songs at school while a former Ukip MEP said the candidate selection process was «gerrymandered».

Norman Tebbit said the result was a product of the Tories» core vote «kicking back» while Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan called for a limited electoral pact between his party and Ukip.