Sentences with phrase «with ethnic minority voters»

«This is the first time in British political history that a multilingual campaign song has been used in order to connect with ethnic minority voters...

Campaigns like the «Go Home» vans or spot checks at London Tube station - or Cameron's photo opportunity with immigration officers in the home of an alleged undocumented immigrant - go down like a bucket of sick with ethnic minority voters.

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Bright Blue, which counts Theresa May, Francis Maude, Andrew Mitchell and David Willetts among its members, said the war on drugs had clearly failed and that the Tories could tempt young and ethnic minority voters to the party with a radical proposal on drugs.

She ended the session with a much less irritating attack on changes to the electoral register which will almost certainly see thousands of disadvantaged and ethnic minority voters fall off the list.

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.

While not theoretically an easy needle to thread, Neil O'Brien's Policy Exchange, with its simultaneous focus on improving life in the North and appealing to ethnic minority voters, did just that.

68 % of ethnic minorities voted Labour at the last election compared with 31 % of white voters.

Parties still treated ethnic minority's as «bloc votes» to be targeted, it added, claiming that «engaging solely with leading figures within traditional clan - type structures or religious institutions can be divisive and risk creating «community gatekeepers» rather than real engagement with voters».

Labour certainly has to find ways of reaching out to and reconnecting with the so - called «left behind» Ukip voters but without - to borrow a line from activist and commentator Ellie Mae O'Hagan - throwing immigrants - and, for that matter, British - born ethnic minorities - under the bus.

Appealing to the north of England, working class voters and ethnic minorities with an aspirational agenda was at the heart of this launch, with a focus on «bread and butter issues such as the cost of living,» as well as ensuring environmental problems aren't merely seen as a concern of the left.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, he said the government was committed to putting things right and he urged ethnic minority voters to look at the bigger picture when it came to Thursday's vote.

The presence of a northern woman in the cabinet will not be the silver bullet to the issue of Tory unpopularity with urban voters and women, just as Sajid Javid's appointment has not made the Tories more appealing to ethnic minorities.

If Corbyn's appeal to young voters is mostly restricted to ethnic minorities and university students / graduates, that won't take him very far in Walsall North - especially with 8,000 Ukip voters from 2015 likely to lean towards the Tories.

The research, conducted by internet polling company Survation, suggested that the longstanding link between ethnic minorities and the Labour party was fraying, and that the Conservatives might at last be breaking through with minority voters, having achieved a 33 % share of the 2015 ethnic minority vote overall or «one million» new voters for the party, and with a lead over Labour among Hindu voters.

Our evidence fits with other research suggesting that traditional partisan loyalties to Labour are fading away among ethnic minority voters, producing an electorate more willing to «shop around» and consider a range of other political options, including the Conservatives, the Greens and UKIP.

In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Javid said the Government would «put things right» and urged ethnic minority voters to look at the «bigger picture» at the local elections.

It is unique in being a seat that has a majority of ethnic minority voters, but a Conservative Member of Parliament - a sign that the party does not struggle to quite the same extent with Hindu voters as it does with Muslim or black voters.