Sentences with phrase «brown calling for a referendum»
A group of Labour candidates has written a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a referendum on electoral reform to be held on the day of the general election.
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Gordon Brown is facing more pressure over the EU treaty, with some of his own MPs now joining calls for a referendum.
Gordon Brown has once again rejected calls for a referendum on the EU treaty as campaigners descend on parliament.
Pressure has been mounting on Mr Brown to call a referendum, with constant demands from David Cameron for a public vote.
Brown quotes Kenneth Clarke, the shadow business secretary, as saying that calls for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty were «crackpot» and «daft».
David Cameron, some of whose referendum rhetoric was penned by Brown, did not bother to advise his predecessor that he would be calling for English votes for English laws on D - day plus one.