Sentences with phrase «year labour voter»

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Yet, despite all this, Labour is ahead in the polls and has been for the best part of two years, thanks to the realignment of Lib Dem voters unhappy with the coalition.

Certainly to me (a floating voter) it looks as if Labour have moved a long way to the right and to the authoritarian over the last 15 years or so, and if they want their old supporters to listen to them, they may have to migrate back a bit to get the conversation started.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Indeed, Labour gained some seats without even canvassing last year, such was the level of enthusiasm among voters based on little more than viral Facebook videos and a pledge to build a fairer Britain.

Also, many voters - including Leave voters - reacted against austerity last year by voting for Labour, but the Tories have done little to change course on this and may now decide they don't need to.

We reached out to Yes voters within Scottish Labour in last year's leadership campaigns, should we not reach out beyond the party in this years UK leadership election?

One of the key patterns in last year's general election results was a tendency for those who voted Remain to swing more to Labour than those who voted Leave, while the Conservatives lost ground amongst Remain voters while advancing amongst their Leave counterparts.

While the right of the party have lectured Corbyn and the left for the past year about talking - down to voters, being «out of touch» and not understanding ordinary people's views, here Smith is saying he believes Labour should go into the 2020 election telling the 52 % of Leave voters they are simply wrong.

Polling expert Peter Kellner commented «The figures do not support the argument that Labour paid a heavy price this year for neglecting its core voters; rather they tell us something far bigger about long - term trends and what Labour needs to do to regain power».

Lisa Nandy, the MP for Wigan, warned that losing ground in Bolton, Dudley and her own seat of Wigan underlined the fact that Labour's message was failing to appeal to voters in towns where years of job losses had eroded the sense of community.

I wrote earlier this year that pessimism about the UK economy could be Labour's biggest problem in 2015, because voters may simply think Labour can not do any better.

This may be difficult to sell to English, Welsh and Northern Irish voters (though perhaps easier due to the Fixed - term Parliaments Act: it could be argued that a norm had been established that MPs were elected for five years), but would clearly be in Labour's interest.

Labour hasn't yet been able to make significant inroads into the SNP support base, which remains at the same level that delivered last year's majority, and needs to focus on winning over voters who backed the SNP at last year's election.

Over the next few years the PM assisted by his Chancellor must show to every voter that the Tory Party is the party of real aspiration, something the modern Labour Party has no desire to be.

The impending boundary review, the deliberate disappearance of Labour voters from the electoral roll, the hopelessness of Scotland — all of which currently could lead to up to 10 years more in opposition.

As an active member of the Lib Dems for the last two years, this is a phrase I'm very used to hearing when I canvass Labour voters.

In the period between now and when the voters, trade unionists and party members start to realise this, Blair will use the good will he starts out with to move as fast as possible — starting at this year's conference — to suppress the mechanisms whereby alternative policies could be expressed within the Labour Party.

Even by its own limited standards Labour's move to the Right failed, since the endless attempt to triangulate in search of the «floating voter» erodes trust and alienates Labour's base; 5 million lost voters over the New Labour years is testament to that.

«The latest survey of Labour voters shows that fewer than half of them want him to lead the party into a general election in two years» time.»

In a sign of how effectively the coalition has blamed Labour for the economic malaise, many voters would still blame the party even if there was economic decline over the next 12 months - a full year after it lost power.

Labour had supported the introduction of individual voter registration at the end of its 13 years in power, but has been alarmed by the pace with which the coalition plans to push through with the changes.

Even so, the economy determined both elections: in 1992, because voters were scared of the taxes they would have to pay under Labour; in 1997, because the Conservatives never recovered from the humiliation of the pound crashing out of Europe's exchange rate mechanism on Black Wednesday more than four years earlier.

But there have been remarkably few defections among Labour voters to the Tory camp over the past five years.

Liz Kendall pointing out the Tories will latch on to former labour voters, by portraying Corbyn as too left wing, arguing that although we in is our perceive the Tories as on the right, they're not that far from the centre ground, as we don't recognize the centre ground is closer to them, then too us, even 7 years ago.

A YouGov poll for The Times also suggested that 2.7 million voters who backed Labour at last year's general election would now vote for the Tories.

They must continue to persuade voters that our economic troubles were Labour's fault in the first place, and fend of charges that the flat - ling of the past three years is George Osborne's fault.

«I have deliberately been speaking to people who didn't vote Labour in the general election last year - to ex Tory or Lib Dem voters.

The long - running British Election Study, which has followed a 30,000 - strong panel of voters over the past three years, found Labour picked up significant support from remain - minded voters, despite its ambiguous stance on what sort of Brexit deal to pursue.

I've been a Labour voter for over 40 years and I've just been rejected by the party as a supporter.

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.

It is not too late for Miliband to persuade voters that he is able to deliver higher living standards for all, not just the rich; but Cameron will hope that by this time next year, enough voters will feel better off, and sufficiently optimistic about the future, to spurn Labour's message.

Ms Kendall is regarded by young voters as the contender most likely to boost Labour's appeal; 43 per cent of 18 - 24 year - olds describe her in this way.

Yet even as more voters coalesced around the Conservatives and Labour than they have for years, still neither of them could win the election and form a majority government.

«We cross all social divides - we are picking up a large number of old Labour votes, we have picked up quite a serious number of Liberal Democrat votes, and one in five of our voters are people that haven't voted for 25 years or more.

Four out of 10 people (41 per cent) who voted Conservative at last year's general election back licensed sales of cannabis, only just below the level of support among Labour, Liberal Democrat and Ukip voters.

This event will explore the crucial issue of how the centre - left in British and European politics can restore its reputation for economic competence drawing on the recent research from Southern Discomfort — One Year On, which identified that Labour has a mountain to climb in winning back voters» trust.

In an email to colleagues, he said: «All the evidence suggests that Brown's leadership reduces Labour support, that alternative leaders would improve our ratings, and that an election determined by voters» answers to the question «Do you want Gordon Brown to be Prime Minister for the next five years?»

Tony Blair has urged voters to focus on their daily life when assessing Labour's ten years in power.

There are voters who voted labour last year, who are pro the EU, dislike Kate Hoey, but have respect for Some brexiters like Frank field, lord glasman, Tom Harris, Christian wolmar who will vote libdem next time, due to Jeremy,

Landless peasant insulting ex labour voters who went to ukip, you sound like those labour members who 33 years ago couldn't understand why the working class voted tory

There are voters who voted labour last year, pro the EU who will hold their nose vote Tory next time due to Jeremy, but have respect for Some brexiters like Frank field, Jon Cryer, David Owen

But there is also widespread support among Labour voters for limiting child tax credits in future to two children per family, and lowering the cap on total benefits to # 23,000 a year in London and # 20,000 a year outside London.

Since that point, many of those whose second preference was Labour have switched their first preference from the Lib Dems anyway, and many now form part of Labour's current poll lead — this YouGov poll showed that last year's Lib Dem voters split 42 % Labour, 30 % Lib Dem, 17 % Tory!

Like many ex Labour voters, the Blair years drove me away.

Despite this, Labour's lead in these seats has grown from 9 to 14 points over the last two years, largely because of the defection of Tory voters to UKIP.

Labour believes health will be a key electoral issue as voters start to worry less about the economy and more about the NHS as it begins to suffer from the coalition's structural shakeup, declining staff morale after years of frozen pay and a budget not increasing fast enough to cope with the ageing population.

And Tory MP Mike Freer, who claimed he was outed to religious voters by Labour canvassers during last year's general election, said: «It is not surprising that the commitment to equality is sometimes more show than substance in elements of the Labour Party.

Labour is right to reject the reckless idea that last year's democratic vote should be somehow cancelled, and clearly needs to win the support of a proportion of leave voters.

Incredible to think that despite being 20 + points behind, Labour still leads quite solidly in voters under 40 years old (especially women) pic.twitter.com/AnZ5o3XU 0d

I regularly hear unhappy MPs in the bars, crumpled from another weekend's ear - bashing on doorsteps from natural Labour voters grumbling about the leader's failings, some mud that's unfairly stuck and others justifiable, declare 2018 will be the year Jezza relinquishes a crown worn uncomfortably.