Sentences with phrase «wider electorate»

In his moment of victory, Ed Miliband will have to face down the «red Ed» charge — that he won the election by appeasing the unions and tacking to the Left, which is where his party feels comfortable but the wider electorate does not.

It places party loyalty above the interests of constituents and the wider electorate.

Corbyn urged the parliamentary party to understand the mood of the country, after warnings from many of them and senior politicians such as Tony Blair and Neil Kinnock that he will not appeal to the wider electorate.

Those successes were largely down to inspired Corbyn supporters knocking on doors and manning the phones to sell the Labour party to the wider electorate.

Suddenly there are indications that parts of the wider electorate do not share an appetite for recovery - threatening austerity.

In his first conference speech Hague declared repeatedly that it was time to «move on» from the party's recent preoccupations and reach out to the wider electorate.

He is the «change candidate» who has the greatest potential to connect with a wider electorate and especially with those politically engaged young people, internationalist in outlook, who have lost faith in conventional Westminster politics but yearn for a more democratic, fairer and freer Britain.

The result was the worst of both worlds: benefit recipients did not feel that Labour was «standing up» for them and the wider electorate were disaffected.

He clearly hasn't with the PLP and opinion polls suggest that he has failed to influence the wider electorate.

However, one of the biggest worries of the remain camp is that Corbyn has been making speeches to events around the country but failing to transmit Labour's message to the wider electorate.

He knows he has many disparagers - both from among the supporters of his main rival for the Labour leadership, his elder brother, David Miliband, and from the professional commentariat, who caricature him as an unreconstructed Brownite statist with limited appeal to the wider electorate, especially in England.

Instead, the shifts we find among Britain's growing minority communities are the same as those found in the wider electorate in England and Wales: incremental Conservative and Labour advance, a collapse in Liberal Democrat voting, and a surge in support for minor party entrants.

This year's GOP primary results are improving the party's chances come November - by nominating candidates who have a better shot of appealing to the wider electorate that votes in the midterms.

But he enjoys almost no profile amongst the wider electorate, save for the occasion as defence secretary when, in his own words, he allowed the distinction between his personal interests and his government activities to «become blurred».

In the next half, as the election moves into view, Corbyn must form a detailed policy programme that will be subjected to brutal levels of attention, while winning the support of all parts of his party for the policies and, let us not forget, the backing of the wider electorate.

In the narrow and rarified world of Facebook and Twitter, loyalists are convinced that Corbyn and his team have been dragged into these new positions by the dark forces of the press when, in reality, they have been responding to the concerns of the wider electorate.

Iain Dale was suggesting it was a mistake for newspapers to reveal things about Mr Clegg, that maybe he was not too keen for the wider electorate to know.

Are there clues as to a new leader's prospects for success with the wider electorate to be found in the way their party goes about choosing between rival candidates?

Successful party leaders marry the enthusiasms of their supporters to the mood of the wider electorate.

The wider electorate continue to see Corbyn as far less suited to leadership than Theresa May.

«Why was the Labour party, the media, the wider electorate, not shocked by the idea that individuals with no connection to a party being given a chance to elect its leader?

The wider electorate is unlikely to spend their Sunday worrying about such old news.

The roars of approval from the Labour grass - roots for Corbyn's stances on Trident, shoot - to - kill and the national anthem are drowning out the mocking laughter of the wider electorate.

Clegg certainly produced a coherent speech and set out a clear and distinctive position on a number of issues, but whether his words will help the party's appeal with the wider electorate very much is more questionable.

He had to energise his own activists in preparation for a general election seven months away and convince the wider electorate that there are good reasons for voting for his party.

In particular it will say whether Labour's members are thinking more about internal party politics or the feeling of the wider electorate.

«He might be seen by Labour Party councillors as best placed to connect with the wider electorate and challenge Theresa May, but he'll need a strong change in the winds to get past Jeremy Corbyn right now.»

And while they are not a sizeable chunk of the wider electorate - many genuinely passionate Remainers regard Corbyn with suspicion - they still matter.

In this context he has carried out extensive work on the Labour Party conference and how it has been managed by the party leadership so as to present a united front to the media and thereby the wider electorate.

However, losing the support of the parliamentary party remains a significant problem and he still has work to do to convince the wider electorate.

Ed Miliband must know that he owes his position to people who do not share the outlook of the wider electorate.

In short, which of the candidates looks most like a potential Prime Minister to the wider electorate?

This is to speak to the wider electorate (including the 7m union members) and convince them of Corbyn's case as a Labour prime minister in waiting that is worth voting for.

A major factor in Jeremy Corbyn's appeal to voters in the recent leadership election — and potentially to the wider electorate as well — was his brave assertion that austerity was the wrong response to recession and was doing absolutely avoidable damage to both economic performance and social cohesion.

It reflects the former shadow work and pensions secretary's belief that he can reach Corbyn supporters while also appealing to the wider electorate.

Likewise, in repudiating trade unionism, they repudiated controlled immigration and the moderating influence of the wider electorate in the affairs of the Labour Party.

Not exact matches

Brexit is in some respects an even more potent issue for them because it brings together a wider group of the electorate, with pro-EU Conservatives and Labour voters wondering how to reverse the march towards the cliff's edge.

The large swath of the electorate willing to seriously consider the party will make this a viable option in a wide range of seats, potentially opening a wide swath of constituencies to an unprecedented challenge.»

As Jon well knows, Luke supported Yvette during the leadership campaign and his views are, broadly, supported by a wide plularity of those 40 % of the electorate that voted for Liz, Yvette or Andy — around 60 % of the then membership.

Farron has said the three issues he wants to own are housing, civil liberties and climate change — touchstone issues for Lib Dem activists, but there's an open question about how far they will resonate with the wider public, especially an ageing electorate, with over-55s expected to comprise a majority of voters by 2020.

With 20 % of Labour's electorate yet to make up their mind — and with unions still signing up members to register to take part in this year's leadership election — the race is wide open.

Though party activists rebuked Feinstein, she has millions of dollars to run a successful campaign and polling has shown she enjoys wide support among Democratic voters and independents, a critical piece of the electorate in a race without any well - known Republicans.

John Curtice, the professor of politics at Strathclyde University, and Martin Boon, from the pollsters ICM, were commissioned by the Electoral Commission to conduct a wide - ranging survey into the electorate's apathy.

He said: «Refusing to listen to the electorate has never been a winning formula, any more than Jeremy Corbyn thinking the volume of the cheering from your core supporters is a reliable guide to wider public opinion.

I'd respectfully suggest they are far less representative of the electorate than hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who come from a wide range of backgrounds and earn a wide range of incomes.

The most important difference between the two is that the Greens get more votes from a wider range of electorates.

The wider the chasm in understanding between politicians and the electorate, the more experts are poured in to fill the gap.

These results form part of a wide ranging poll that sought the views of the British electorate on the likely impact of a hard Brexit as well as people's views of the Trump administration and its policies.