As sheannounced that marriage, rather than justparentalrelationships, would besupported by theTories through thetaxsystem, the think tank audience around me bristled.
In 2008 the Times Education Supplement, a trade newspaper, found overwhelming disapproval among teachers of Labour's school policies and a shift in voting intentions (albeit towards the Liberal Democrats ratherthantheTories).
There is some evidence that their vote is developing in a way which makes them, ratherthantheTories, the second party in the North of England, giving them new opportunities to capture councils.