Sentences with phrase «with ordinary voters»

And, finally, both face opponents who have failed to connect with the ordinary voters.

In an increasingly bitter battle, the Tories hope to portray Livingstone as a tax dodger and hypocrite while Labour accuses Johnson of being lazy and out of touch with ordinary voters.

After the disasters of Mr Osborne's earlier «pasty tax» Budget, this was a genuine attempt to be more in tune with ordinary voters.

It's commonplace to hear the opinion that those of us that work in and around Westminster are out of touch with ordinary voters.

David's intellect is also seen by some as a weakness - they worry about whether he will connect with ordinary voters.

It is interesting that the SPD and Labour leadership changes have both resisted democratic debates about their direction in order to maintain the false impression of party unity for presentations sake — which just goes to show how out of touch they are with ordinary voters, even if in so doing they think they have enhanced their claims to be in touch with the issues that matter.

They would then have their own mandate from the PLP to hold Jeremy to account and keep the party in touch with ordinary voters.

An Energy Minister who boasts that his decision is supported by Greenpeace is an Energy Minister spectacularly out - of - touch with ordinary voters.