Grassroots: Britain’s party members: who they are, what they think, and what they do

With the obvious exception of SNP members, they’re more likely, too, to live in London and the south of the country rather than in the north or the Midlands and Wales (see Table 2 overleaf). [...] Again, there is a gulf between the Tory grassroots and the rest, with Dem and SNP members come over as confirmed multiculturalists and are convinced Lib Dems sitting on the centre-left rather than in the centre, notwithstanding the fact of the economic upsides of immigration. [...] Admittedly, some parties - notably the SNP - to which members feel they have a say in policy (explored in the same Figure) arguably seem to do better than others: the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems probably can’t reflects reality, with Lib Dems believing they have most influence and the Conservatives afford to ignore the fact that only a third of their members say membership has fully believin. [...] What sort of people would party members like to see more of in the Commons? groups (particularly among the Tory grassroots), although this could perhaps reflect an awareness among party members that the UK parliament is already one of the most LGBT -friendly (or at least lesbian- and gay-friendly) in the world. [...] Some of the respondents surveyed in June 2017 had already been surveyed for our Party Members Project in Paul Webb May 2015, in the aftermath of the General Election or, in the case of the Labour party, in Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex.