Example sentences of "[art] conservatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour would be acquiescing in a ‘ democratic outrage ’ if it continued arguing that , because the Conservatives had got away with being undemocratic for so long , it was now Labour 's turn . |
| 2 | Although the policy review will be endorsed by the conference , giving Neil Kinnock the freedom to go on to the offensive against the Conservatives in the run-up to the next general election , there are a number of areas of potential conflict . |
| 3 | Amid the euphoria of its seven-point opinion poll lead , the party 's own pollsters have reminded it that in the South the Conservatives lead 47-33 while in the Midlands and Wales the race remains too close to call . |
| 4 | Despite the democratic element in government , however , the liberal-leaning elected members of the Assembly have little power , because the conservatives dominate the body through appointed indirectly-elected seats . |
| 5 | ‘ It is very difficult to achieve anything against the strength of the conservatives . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Gould promised the party would restore ‘ the great utilities ’ to public ownership and insist on higher standards of regulation than those which had prevailed under the Conservatives . |
| 7 | He also warned : ‘ I prefer it not to be carried because the Conservatives , who are desperately clinging at straws because of the popularity of our policy , against the irrelevance of theirs , would do what they could to make mischief about it . ’ |
| 8 | He predicted the Conservatives would hit back with personal attacks on Labour leaders , by ordering civil servants to waste time trying to ‘ cost ’ the party 's programmes and then , next week at Blackpool , with ‘ the Team ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ The Conservatives may reject the idea of ‘ a decent wage ’ . |
| 10 | In his address to the party conference at Brighton , Mr Kinnock said Labour was now ready , eager and able to take power from the Conservatives at the next election , and his confidence won him one of the most prolonged and enthusiastic ovations received by a Labour leader for many years . |
| 11 | Even if the Conservatives took ‘ the brakes off ’ in the run-up to the next election , people would not be deceived . |
| 12 | These are exactly the sort of voters Labour needs in the South , where the Conservatives retain a 14-point mid-term lead . |
| 13 | It is not a well-drilled rally like the Conservatives ' . |
| 14 | In the Euro-elections , the Leftist Unity party only gathered 6.5 per cent of the vote , far behind the Socialists , the Conservatives and the Centrists . |
| 15 | Since their poor vote in the June Euro-elections , the Conservatives have lagged well behind Labour in the polls . |
| 16 | Their votes will be vital if seats long since lost to the Conservatives are to be regained . |
| 17 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 18 | Constituency Labour Party and trade union delegates seized eagerly on the common feeling that the Conservatives economic and political trials , and the disarray of the centre parties , were at last combining to open a window of opportunity . |
| 19 | In the latest Scottish opinion polls the SNP was trailing behind the Conservatives and Labour . |
| 20 | Ministers are also determined to use the Tory conference to counter-attack Labour 's successful conference week and lift the Conservatives ' sagging spirits . |
| 21 | ' Mr Kinnock 's confidence was bolstered by an NOP survey in last night 's London Evening Standard , which gave his party a 9-point lead over the Conservatives ( 46 per cent to 37 ) . |
| 22 | It is certainly the first time since Mrs Thatcher was elected in 1979 that Labour has ended its conference with the Conservatives on the defensive . |
| 23 | Labour has doubled its lead over the Conservatives to 6 per cent in the past month , according to a poll of polls conducted for the BBC programme Newsnight . |
| 24 | This is precisely what the Conservatives were elected to avoid . |
| 25 | With current policies the Conservatives will not win the next election ; even with better policies they might not win it . |
| 26 | THE LATEST opinion poll , a comprehensive survey of 10,000 voters carried out for the Press Association news agency , last night gave Labour an eight-point lead over the Conservatives . |
| 27 | Those three points are bound to be read as concessions to public opinion , given a series of weekend polls putting Labour as far as 11 points ahead of the Conservatives . |
| 28 | Traders are anxiously waiting for further cues from the Conservatives at Blackpool and the next set of economic statistics . |
| 29 | The opinion polls continue to score the Conservatives well ahead on this count . |
| 30 | Even at this awkward moment , I doubt that the performance of the economy alone , or even chiefly , will lose the Conservatives the next election . |