Tag: Tories

• Friday, June 2nd 2017 - 07:47 UTC

  Labour and Tories recovering ground in Scotland; SNP ahead with 43% vote intention

  

  Labour is running neck-and-neck with the Tories in Scotland, with both parties attracting around 25% of the vote, a new opinion poll has indicated. While the latest Ipsos Mori findings for STV put the SNP (Scottish National Party) out in front with backing from 43% of Scots certain to vote - down from its 2015 result of 50% - Scottish Labour and the Scottish Conservatives are tied on 25% each.

• Friday, May 6th 2016 - 07:13 UTC

  Councils-election: Labour doing better than expected in England; Scotland's Sturgeon wins a third term for the SNP

  

  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has avoided the drubbing some had predicted as the party retained control of key councils in England, but the party had a bad night in the Scottish Parliament elections, where Nicola Sturgeon won an historic third term for the SNP reported BBC late Thursday.

• Wednesday, May 15th 2013 - 22:21 UTC

  UK parliament rejects EU referendum amendment despite 114 Tories votes

  

  A total of 114 Conservative MPs have backed an amendment to the Queen's Speech “expressing regret” an EU referendum bill was not part of the government's agenda for the year ahead. Euro-sceptic Tories forced the vote as part of efforts to make Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge for a poll in 2017 binding.

• Tuesday, February 26th 2013 - 00:59 UTC

  Argentine born MEP shocks UK politics by abandoning independents and joining the Tories

  

  Argentine born Marta Andreasen a UK south east region MEP (Member of the European Parliament) for the UK Independent Party has said she is leaving the party to join the Conservatives.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 04:15 UTC

  Veteran Tories call PM Cameron’s government ‘incompetent and elitist”

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron is under pressure to reassert his authority over a Conservative Party reeling after a week which saw the resignation of a senior minister and claims of incompetence and elitism at the heart of his government.