Sentences with phrase «economic community referendum»
Foreign Secretary James Callaghan makes the government's case for a «Yes» vote ahead of the European Economic Community referendum in 1975.
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But what seems to have been missed from this assessment is that more than 67 % of people voted Yes (i.e. Remain) in the 1975 referendum on our membership of what was then the European Economic Community.
It's so different from the 1975 referendum on Britain's continuing membership of the European Economic Community, when party lines held much more firmly.
His position is in contrast to that taken by Harold Wilson in regards to the 1975 referendum on membership of the European Economic Community.
«It's difficult to separate the two issues, and one of the challenges if we ever get to having an in - out referendum on Europe will be separating the economic benefits of being members of the EU from arguments around how immigration is changing communities.»