Conservative Party

...Election, Labour led the Tories among 18 to 24-year-old voters by 38% to 28%. Recent polls suggest the Tories now lead Labour by 35% to 27%, the union said. Advertisement - article continues below » The study suggests that even in 2005,...

In this article: Labour Party, Tories, 2005 General Election, University and College Union, British Polling Council, Barack Obama, White House, and Britain

...he was right to make that warning as, despite being ahead of Labour on most key areas, including their ability to fix the economy, the Tories still trailed narrowly on the question of ''who will stand up for ordinary people in an economic...

In this article: Labour Party, Labour Party, David Cameron, England, Liberal Democrats, 2005 General Election, and Gordon Brown

...17.6 per cent against 16.5 per cent. What matters is the composition of the swing. In Crewe there was a more or less direct switch from Labour to the Tories. In Norwich North, only some of the shift went to the Tories as the UK Independence...

In this article: Labour Party, Labour Party, Tories, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party, 2005 General Election, Greens, and Gordon Brown

...to Britain's economic dilemmas in the 1970s. When the Conservative Party won the 1979 general election, they implemented New Right ideas and brought the post-war consensus to an end. The 'post-war consensus' is also regarded as an era...

In this article: Labour Party, United Kingdom, Welfare state, IMF, Economics, Inflation, Ideology, Coal, and Recession

Some 63 per cent of those who regard themselves as natural Tories say they are "absolutely certain" to vote at the next election, compared to 48 per cent of Labour identifiers and 51 per cent of natural Liberal Democrats.

In this article: David Cameron, Labour Party, Gordon Brown, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Tax, and Recession

...Labour controls Slough and Reading is under no overall control. Since the 2005 general election , the Conservative Party dominates, controlling six out of eight constituencies. Slough and Reading West are both represented by the Labour Party...

In this article: Oxfordshire, River Thames, Slough, West Berkshire, and Oxford

Miss Rowling, who wrote the first of her books while an impoverished single mother, said: "I believe that poor and vulnerable families will fare much better under the Labour Party than they would under a Cameron-led Conservative Party.

In this article: JK Rowling, Labour Party, Labour Party, Labour Party, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tax, and Child poverty

...Resident". On this occasion, he chose the latter label. Beaconsfield has always been one of the safest seats held by the Conservative Party , and a Conservative victory was expected. The real fight was for second place; the Liberal candidate...

In this article: Tony Blair, Labour Party, Beaconsfield, Tim Smith, Paul Tyler, 1997 General Election, Ronald Bell, Sedgefield, and 1992 General Election

...(so the detractors would say) a nanny state. Last year the local Tories (the National Party) strolled in with barely a hint of policy being announced as far out as we are in the UK electoral cycle. The run into the election was almost a mirror...

In this article: David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Recession, Labour Party, Tony Blair, and Tax