Sentences with phrase «conservatives during the referendum»

In his interview with Dermot Murnaghan on Sky, Hilary Benn, the shadow foreign secretary, also said that he would not be sharing a platform with any Conservatives during the referendum campaign.

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Cameron promised in his Bloomberg speech in Europe to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's future in the EU during the next parliament if the Conservatives win the next general election.

David Cameron has denied misleading Conservative MPs during coalition talks with the Liberal Democrats, insisting he did not tell them Labour was offering Nick Clegg's party electoral reform without a referendum.

They were handled with contempt by the Conservatives during the electoral reform referendum.

Mr Miliband expressed sympathy with those Lib Dems - including former leader Paddy Ashdown and business secretary Vince Cable - who were incensed by the tactics employed by the Conservatives against them during the AV referendum campaign.

During the devolution referendum Conservatives and others in the «just say no» campaign argued that the Assembly would just be an expensive «talking shop».

«A referendum on Europe during the midpoint of the next parliament is Conservative party policy, though not coalition policy.

It comes as the Conservative party has had decided to adopt a position of neutrality during the upcoming EU referendum campaign.

Nick Herbert, who led the Conservative remain campaign during the referendum, joined a number of senior Tories who are warning that there are still severe risks to the economy as government ministers try to work out a Brexit plan.

During the referendum campaign Lord Heseltine said Johnson's «obscene» comments had jeopardised his chances of ever becoming Conservative leader.

During the referendum campaign, May infuriated senior Conservative colleagues on the remain side by largely staying out of the day - to - day arguments in favour of staying in the EU.

And if the Lib Dems are the only party that could offer the Tories the chance to control a majority of seats, then the leak will be quickly forgotten — just as the Conservatives» sharp tactics during the AV referendum and House of Lords reform will be, and indeed have been.

During the House of Commons vote in October 2011 on a backbench motion for a bill to be introduced in the next parliamentary session to enable a referendum to be held on Britain's continued membership of the European Union, Mosley was one of 81 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government Whip to support a referendum.

He attributed the confusion to the «psychodrama» in the Conservative party, which has dominated the news agenda during the referendum.

In his speech to the Lib Dem conference on Tuesday, Huhne, who fell out with Conservative cabinet colleagues over their tactics during the Alternative Vote referendum in May, will warn David Cameron to keep the Tory right under control, saying: «We don't need the Tea Party tendency in Britain.»

He says that a nationwide vote should be the first announcement of a future Conservative government and the referendum should take place during Mr Cameron's first three months in Downing Street.

During the 2006 debate over a referendum to establish universal pre-K in California, the Heritage Foundation, Reason Foundation, and other conservative groups published articles highlighting fade - out.