Sentences with phrase «then came the referendum»

Then came the referendum, followed by a widely reported hike in hate crime.

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(Then the referendum for leaving the EU came along and there was no parliamentary time for anything)

Ahmadinejad: -LSB-...] Our suggestion is that the 5 million Palestinian refugees come back to their homes, and then the entire people on those lands hold a referendum and choose their own system of government.

I'm strongly in support of a referendum, if we can get the kind of new arrangement which David Cameron's talked about, then I would say I'd want to stay in, if we don't, I'd probably vote to come out.

Then comes Angus MacNeil, the SNP rabble - rouser, who asks a question about the referendum.

And then came the Scottish independence referendum.

On that front the Survation poll is pretty positive about Jeremy Corbyn with people saying he came across as more trustworthy and in touch than his rivals (though such polls are always a bit tricky because of the choice of clips — Survation tried to iron out any potential biasing effect by having clips from each candidate being interviewed on the Marr show, so they were all interviews, all the same setting and same interviewer... but even then you ended up with two candidates defending their position on the welfare bill, one talking about the EU referendum and one talking about rail nationalisation.

It is no surprise, then, that voters and politicians alike have struggled to come to terms with the Coalition's promised referendum on the Alternative Vote.

Then we come to the referendum campaign.

Around this time a supplementary counter-argument did the rounds to further upset those pro-European Labour MPs already licking their wounds: if there were to be a general election it would come before the Irish referendum on the Lisbon treaty and the Tories would then truly be able to withdraw from Europe with great ease.

He calls for Labour, Greens and Liberal Democrats to come together to win the AV referendum so that they can then come together and exclude the Conservatives from power:

But even then they could only be hoping May gets such a bad deal from EU, in a year or so, that they can then campaign for her to put it to a 2nd referendum (as not being what we voted on in the original one), then hoping it would be rejected and we could somehow withdraw the Art 50 notice (unlikely) and stay in EU after all — so they would need Parl to wangle a right to reports on progress, as otherwise the bad deal would only come out too late to stay in.