Sentences with phrase «british referendum vote»

Trump's improbable victory was eerily similar to Brexit, the British referendum vote to leave the European Union.

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GLASGOW, Scotland — The British political establishment descended on Scotland Wednesday to plead for a united United Kingdom, after polls suggested the once - fanciful notion of Scots voting to break from Britain has become a real possibility in next week's referendum.

More than 30 million people participated in the hotly - contested referendum vote, better known as Brexit («British exit»).

Unlike some other elections, only British citizens are able to vote in the upcoming referendum.

She needs approval from the British government, which repeated Tuesday that a vote on this timetable was «not appropriate» — although it has not ruled out the prospect of a later referendum.

It seems obvious why this would be the case: as in the 1975 referendum, the British would be voting on something that had already been got underway.

Last month he masterminded a letter of his own on the EU referendum, getting nearly 100 Tories to sign up to his proposal for the coalition to legislation on giving the British public a vote at some time in the next parliament.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday signed the historic letter that will launch Brexit, a photo released by her office showed, as she called for unity even as Scotland voted for a new independence referendum.

On 23rd June 2016, a majority of the British public voted in a referendum on whether to leave the European Union.

Top British film star Keira Knightley has urged young people to use their vote in the EU referendum...

Interpretations of the National Interest have been at the forefront of the debate in an entirely new way for the British, pitching referendum against parliamentary voting, domestic and against foreign policy issues, numerical majorities against political and economic arguments, elites against elites.

Top British film star Keira Knightley has urged young people to use their vote in the EU referendum — in order to «stop others fucking with your future».

The British voters voted by roughly 52 - 48 per cent to leave the EU in the referendum called by Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron.

Australias House of Representatives is elected by the Alternative Vote (AV) system, which will be offered to the British public in a referendum next May.

As to the EU referendum outcome, a narrow majority of the British public did vote to Leave, and it's likely a majority of those who did vote to leave did so because they perceive EU and non-EU immigration as being a problem, just as they were told by the rags.

But now the referendum is over, Vote Leave campaigners are already pointing out that they never said they would reduce immigration, only that the British people could if they wanted to.

I also voted for the motion because not only has our relationship with Europe changed since the referendum on our entry into the EEC but I believe the millions of British taxpayers under the age of 50 who contribute to the funding of the EU want a say on our future relationship with Europe — which incidentally should not necessarily be interrupted as wanting to get out of the EU but taking ownership of our relationship with the EU.

For Iqbal, a British citizen, this viewpoint stems from having had a front row seat to the Brexit vote, the 2016 British referendum to exit the European Union, and -LSB-...]

The situation to - and - fros when you look at how the British people would vote if a referendum on membership were held today, but never with a significant majority voting to leave.

Two - thirds of the British people who live in Europe couldn't vote in the 2016 referendum, so it's crucial that they get the guarantees they need to protect them from a Brexit which is very much being done to them without any say.

«It said: «We will put it to the British people in a referendum, and campaign wholeheartedly for a Yes vote.»

He promised the biggest shake - up in British democracy for 200 years and the expected referendum on the alternative vote system.

That renegotiation was followed by a referendum in June 2016, which resulted in the British electorate voting to withdraw from the European Union by 52 % to 48 % and led to the resignation of Cameron as Prime Minister.

We now know the date for the referendum when the British public get the opportunity to decide whether we change from our traditional first - past - the - post (FPTP) electoral system to the Alternative Vote (AV).

As well as having huge implications for the British party system, the legacy of the Independence Referendum (narrowly won by the unionist side) may offer some pointers to what might happen should the U.K. narrowly vote to remain in the European Union.

«It is right that we voted for a referendum and right that we still want to hold a referendum and it is right that a Conservative government will amend the 1972 European Communities Act so if any future government proposes to transfer new competencies or areas of power to Brussels a referendum of the British people will be required by law.»

An amendment seeking to secure an EU referendum by 2014 could play into the hands of those who would deny the British people a vote at all.

If the British vote for a Brexit, it will undoubtedly be based on an English majority, which will lead to a strong push for a new Scottish independence referendum (this time perhaps supported by the EU elite).

«Both parties are signed up to all of their members voting for the legislation [for the referendum] to go through, I'm sure it will go through, and if the news reports are right then next year we will give the chance to the British people to decide.

And it will also be the case on the basis of the prospectus that Alistair [Darling] and his team have laid out that we will have a change in the voting system without the British people having had a chance to vote on it on a referendum.»

As chairman of the British Insurance Brokers» Association, the Tory peer appealed to members ahead of the referendum: «I believe remaining in the EU would be a vote for business stability over uncertainty.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha Cameron leave after voting in the EU Referendum at Central Methodist Hall, Westminster

While the unloved compromise of AV was voted down by referendum, the changing nature of the British party system, and the likely messy outcome of the vote in May, could well put long - needed reform of FPTP back on the table.

Brexit campaigner Shahmir Sanni told Channel 4 that the British referendum's «Vote Leave» campaign spent over its legal limit by using the Canadian data firm called Aggregate IQ — adding that the company had links to Cambridge Analytica.

The British people have voted to leave the European Union after a historic referendum in which they rejected the advice of the main Westminster party leaders and instead took a plunge into the political unknown.

It should be noted that the referendum took place 25 years before the passing of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 by the then Labour Government of Tony Blair, which introduced into British law a general procedure for the holding of UK - wide referendums and effectively created the Electoral Commission, a body that would oversee such votes and also test and research proposed referendumReferendums Act 2000 by the then Labour Government of Tony Blair, which introduced into British law a general procedure for the holding of UK - wide referendums and effectively created the Electoral Commission, a body that would oversee such votes and also test and research proposed referendumreferendums and effectively created the Electoral Commission, a body that would oversee such votes and also test and research proposed referendum questions.

Former British prime minister John Major has called for a free vote in parliament on whether to hold a second EU referendum.

He said that he would vote in a putative referendum for a British exit from the European Union unless there were changes in the relationship, [25] but following David Cameron's renegotiation, he supported the Remain campaign.

In June 2016, almost 52 % of British citizens who participated in a referendum on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU, commonly known as Brexit, voted to leave.

The idea of «fundamental British values» feeds into broader narratives of «Britishness» which played a significant role in the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union and Conservatives» call for a British Bill of Rights to replace the protection offered by the European Convention on Human Rights, under the Human Rights Act.

The Law Society of British Columbia has reversed its accreditation of Trinity Western University's law school after the majority of the province's bar voted against its initial decision in a referendum last night.

In April British Columbia benchers voted 20 - 6 against a motion barring TWU graduates from admission — a decision the benchers reversed in October following a referendum of its members.

Leigh Day, acting for the two claimants, argued that British citizens were being unlawfully denied their right to vote under the EU Referendum Act 2015 since the Referendum could lead to them losing their status as EU citizens and the protection of EU law.

The Liberal government is aware that referendums to change our type of voting system have been recently lost in the United Kingdom, Ontario, and British Columbia.

In a binding referendum last month, Law Society of British Columbia members voted 74 per cent in favour of a resolution stating TWU is not an approved law faculty for the purpose of the bar admissions requirements in that province.

British - based Cambridge Analytica also has ties to Canadian data company AggregateIQ, which allegedly received money from the Vote Leave campaign ahead of the Brexit referendum.

AggregateIQ worked with four different campaigns associated with the campaign to leave the European Union in the June 2016 Brexit referendum: Vote Leave, BeLeave, Veterans for Britain and the DUP, according to the British newspaper the Guardian.

British campaign finance experts said the allegations about Vote Leave underscored the porousness and ineffectiveness of rules on spending around referendums like the vote in 2016 to exit the European UnVote Leave underscored the porousness and ineffectiveness of rules on spending around referendums like the vote in 2016 to exit the European Unvote in 2016 to exit the European Union.

«Our investigators looked for coordinated activity tied to Russia which pertained to the EU referendum, in the form of ads delivered to people in the UK in the run - up to the vote,» the representative of the British branch of the company, Simon Milner said in a letter to Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee in the House of Commons.