Sentences with phrase «european referendum vote»

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The odds of Britain voting to leave the European Union in a June referendum narrowed on Tuesday as attacks in Brussels were seen boosting the Out campaign.

Last year, the governing coalition broke its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Iceland joining the European Union, prompting thousands of Icelanders to protest and sign petitions demanding a parliamentary vote.

If you need divine guidance on which way to vote in the forthcoming U.K. referendum on European Union (EU) membership, the Church of England has released a prayer to help that could help you decide.

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

Joseph Biden was the first top American leader to make a statement, saying the U.S. wished Britain had voted to stay in the European Union but respected the result of the Brexit referendum.

Last week, its value against the U.S. dollar dropped to its lowest level since Britons first voted in a June referendum to exit the European Union.

The referendum results showed a majority of those voting in favour of leaving the European Union, although the next steps remain highly uncertain.

It appears the UK has voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, causing both celebrations and a crash in the pound's value to its lowest point in 31 years.

The pointlessness of positioning a portfolio for a particular news event couldn't be clearer than it is in the strong stock market performance following the June 23 referendum vote in Britain to leave the European Union.

A second whistleblower from the firm also emerged at a parliamentary hearing in April claiming Britons» personal data may have been misused by a pro-Brexit campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union.

A number of near - term risks clearly exist for European markets, not least the potential for the United Kingdom to vote to leave the EU in June — particularly if data coming out of Europe deteriorates in the run - up to the referendum or if there is an escalation in the refugee crisis.

The deal is expected to lead to some job cuts and is likely to face tough questions from politicians in Scotland where there is increasing pressure for a second independence referendum after Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

In an unexpected outcome, people of the United Kingdom voted in favor of leaving the European Union in June 23rd referendum.

As the date of the referendum approaches, we'd expect volatility to accelerate and to encompass other European assets, coming to a crescendo the day after the Brexit vote.

This data - gathering machinery can be used to shape who we vote for, or whether we vote at all, or how we make choices on big referendums, such as whether Britain leaves the European Union.

Britain's referendum in favor of leaving, or exiting, the European Union, the Brexit referendum, as the results are known, won with 52 percent of the vote on Thursday, June 23, stunning Europe's political establishment.

On 23 June 2016 a referendum was held in which a narrow majority of voters in the United Kingdom (nearly 52 %) voted in favour of leaving the European Union, the so - called «Brexit».

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

Over the last year or so, we've heard plenty about «Soft Brexit» or «Hard Brexit», following the referendum vote to leave the European Union.

The UK has now voted in the referendum on its membership of the European Union (EU).

Since Cameron promised the EU referendum, numerous other countries have also decided to let their citizens vote on European matters.

The former mayor of London cited the ode from 1785 as he delivered his biggest speech yet on why Britons should vote to leave the European Union in next month's referendum.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

Former Conservative chairman Grant Shapps has announced he will vote for the UK to remain in the European Union — while taking a swipe at the tone of both referendum campaigns.

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

Education secretary Michael Gove and defence secretary Philip Hammond generated headlines of their own yesterday by revealing they would vote to leave the European Union if a referendum were held now.

As a French and Greek citizen, I won't have a vote in this referendum and yet this is one of the most momentous decisions that will ever be taken in my name, as a European citizen living on this side of the channel.

There are certainly several examples in Britain where people have rejected change, the most prominent examples include the referendums on Scottish Independence, the Alternative Vote electoral system, and, in 1975, the UK's membership of the European Community.

To make the point even more directly, if it is a consequence of a «yes» vote in the Scottish referendum that the rest of the UK must reapply to join the European Union and either looses its currency or is required to enter into a currency union with a foreign state, the impact of the decision is such that the English, Welsh, and Northern Irish voters should also have a say.

Main stream media (MSM) as been under attack for its bias reporting, and this bias reporting as been increasing ever since the people voted in a democratic referendum to leave the European Union, who incidentally have also given the BBC millions of pounds in funding.

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.

In June 2016 following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, in which 51.9 % of those voting voted in favour of leaving the European Union, Tim Farron stated that if Liberal Democrats were to be elected in the next parliamentary election, they would not follow through with triggering Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and leaving the EU («Any Member State may decide to withdraw from the Union in accordance with its own constitutional requirements») but would instead keep UK part of the EU.

«Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough)(Con): The whole country will be grateful for what the Prime Minister has done, especially because he has said, if I have understood him correctly, that when he is returned as Prime Minister, without the pesky Liberal Democrats in coalition, he will renegotiate with the European Union and put a referendum to the people in which they can vote yes for the renegotiation or no to come out.

That was why I found it absolutely disgraceful that he came in the other night to vote against the referendum lock in the European Union Bill, which is going through the other place.»

The party campaigned for a Remain vote in the referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union in June 2016.

In February 2016 he endorsed Vote Leave in the «Out» campaign for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016.

Following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the European Union and Cameron's consequent resignation, Osborne was sacked by newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May, and returned to the backbenches.

Many of the attack seats are in London or the south - east, with Hoey's constituency of Vauxhall topping the list due to its substantial 77 % vote to remain in the European Union in last year's referendum.

The order of the First Chamber, Second Chamber and European Parliament candidates list is decided by a referendum under all members voting by internet, phone or mail.

The People's Pledge campaign group, which argues in favour of a European referendum, has just announced the result of two referendums it held in the Greater Manchester constituencies of Cheadle and Hazel Grove, voting for which closed at 5 pm today.

Wales voted overwhelmingly to leave the European Union in June's referendum.

Labour was badly split on the issue at that time so Wilson promised a referendum in order to control the dissenters, but then announced at the last minute that the minor concessions he had won from the European Commission justified a vote to stay in.

David Cameron has announced he is to resign as prime minister by October after Britain voted to leave the European Union in Thursday's referendum.

If Lord Hill does his job in Jean - Claude Juncker's new European commission, he may help to provide Mr Cameron — if he is still prime minister — with some of the reforms that could enable him to recommend a yes vote in a 2017 referendum.

Farage has already made clear that he would like a «right» referendum, with barely any involvement from the European Commission and no right to vote for non-UK citizens or 16 and 17 - year olds.

He served as the Campaign Director of Vote Leave, the official and successful campaign in favour of leaving the European Union for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016.

Labour will not guarantee an in - out referendum on the European Union despite a surge in votes for anti-Europe Ukip in the local and European elections.

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-...]

Last year he became the only prominent Liberal Democrat to advocate a vote to leave the European Union in the June referendum.

I would imagine UKIP heartlands are less likely to have voted in previous European elections, but are more likely to vote in this referendum.