Sentences with phrase «union referendum campaigns»

Lord Heseltine has said he would be «very surprised» if Boris Johnson became prime minister after his «preposterous, obscene» remarks during the European Union referendum campaign.

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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.

Cambridge Analytica also worked with the British political operation that successfully campaigned for the UK to leave the European Union in the 2016 «Brexit» referendum.

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.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP)-- A month ahead of Hungary's referendum on European Union migrant quotas, the government's relentless anti-migrant campaign has become inescapable and shows no sign of letting up.

PARIS (AP)-- The leader of France's far - right National Front set the tone for her campaign for the French presidency Saturday, calling to fight an Islamist «offensive» and promising to hold a nationwide referendum on European Union membership if she is...

The former commodities trader was instrumental in the campaign to leave the European Union (EU), and following the referendum's passage, Farage invoked the 1996 sci - fi action film «Independence Day» by declaring June 23 «our independence day» from failed socialist rules, regulations and immigration policies.

Alex Salmond has been hit by a triple - whammy of bad news in the Scottish referendum campaign, with serious questions being raised about North Sea oil, his plans for currency union and Scots» access to the BBC after independence.

Olney ousted former Tory Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond Park by - election, having campaigned for a referendum on the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union.

During the 2014 independence referendum campaign football was again mooted as a way to foster support for the union with the Better Together cup floated as a stunt that would see Scottish and English legends play a high profile game.

«Just yesterday, one of Britain's most prominent right - wing leaders, a man named Nigel Farage, who stoked anti-immigrant sentiment to win the referendum to have Britain leave the European Union, campaigned with Donald Trump,» she said.

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.

During the Brexit referendum campaign, Jeremy Corbyn put his level of support for the European Union at no more than «seven to seven and a half out of 10».

This year's Scottish referendum campaign then saw his resurrection as possibly the most effective defender of the union.

Iain's clear take - away for both the 2016 US presidential campaign and the 23rd June UK referendum on membership in the European Union is that leadership is critical.

The official campaign to keep Britain in the European Union is preparing a lethal advertising offensive in the final weeks before the referendum.

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.

The challenge to Matheson now comes from Mandy Telford, former President of the National Union of Students and former Cumbria Councillor, who moved back to Scotland after campaigning in the referendum campaign.

David Cameron's decision to allow members of the government to campaign on either side of the referendum on European Union membership was presented as a magnanimous gesture.

[2] His campaign strategy was summarised as: «Don't talk about immigration»; «Do talk about business»; «Don't make the referendum final»; «Do keep mentioning the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the over-reach of the European Union's Court of Justice».

Downing Street has agreed to a partial climbdown on reforms of trade unions amid warnings that the EU remain campaign needs to keep their members on side for the 23 June referendum.

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The Welsh Liberal Democrats have challenged the Secretary of State for Wales to commit to campaigning for staying in the European Union during the upcoming referendum, following doubts regarding his position on the matter.

There was nothing unusual about Cameron campaigning for the union in Scotland's referendum.

Much of the early debate about Britain's coming in - out referendum on the European Union has concerned the operation of these rules: the wording of the question on the ballot paper, campaign spending limits and the extent to which David Cameron and his ministers should go into policy - purdah in the final weeks.

Back in November 2017, the Electoral Commission reopened investigations into allegations that Vote Leave, the official exit campaign in the 2016 referendum on UK membership of the European Union, had breached spending rules.

As the Scottish referendum campaign moves into the final three months the pro Union parties have emphasised their commitment to more devolution should Scotland choose to remain in the Union.

Matching David Cameron's guarantee of an in - out referendum would mean that if he won, Miliband would have to spend a good deal of his premiership campaigning to keep Britain in the European Union — a battle he might lose.

The Labour Party has begun the process of setting up a dedicated group to campaign for the UK to stay in the European Union in the forthcoming referendum.

In the late 1980s and 1990s it and its representatives participated in the Scottish Constitutional Convention with the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Green Party, trades unions and churches, and also campaigned for a «Yes - Yes» vote in the 1997 referendum.

The commission is investigating whether Vote Leave, the lead campaigner to leave the European Union during the 2016 referendum, breached campaign finance rules.

In order to establish what kind of organisation the CRC is, openDemocracy has previously examined the public records relating to every type of group that was allowed to give money to referendum campaigns — from the register of trade unions to the Gibraltarian Companies House.

The leader of Britain's biggest business group has said that the country's economic success depends on it remaining a full member of the EU, after senior Tories revealed that more than 150 of the party's MPs would campaign to leave the union in a referendum.

Murphy is clear favourite to win, despite likely opposition from many trade union leaders, after he staged a high profile «100 towns in 100 days» anti-independence tour during the referendum campaign.

Ms Dorries said Mr Cameron had told «outright lies» during the course of the campaign on the European Union referendum.

He said that he would vote in a putative referendum for a British exit from the European Union unless there were changes in the relationship, [25] but following David Cameron's renegotiation, he supported the Remain campaign.

Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan has launched a campaign for a referendum on Britain's membership to the European Union.

The Work and Pensions Secretary, who backed staying in the European Union during the referendum campaign, said the «three driving principles» for the party's EU negotiations based on the message from last week's Leave vote should be:

Charter advocates in Massachusetts sought to increase the number of urban students who can enroll in charters, and the state had several well - qualified charter operators eager to open new schools, but both efforts failed in the legislature and in a referendum after a fierce campaign by teachers» unions.

The unions» efforts to resist change, including powerful media campaigns to prevent citizen referenda on vouchers from being adopted, have been very effective.

EU referendum: German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has designed a set of posters to encourage UK residents to vote to stay in the European Union, after branding the official Remain campaign «lame» (+ slideshow).

On the other hand, Remain campaigners such as Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC), warned repeatedly that «working people have a huge stake in the referendum because workers» rights are on the line» and the link between the UK's membership of the EU and better protection of workers» rights featured heavily in campaign material opposing Brexit.

Publishing a 5 point plan on how Britain's status as a world leader on equality and human rights can be maintained and strengthened after we leave the European Union, Mr Isaac has called for the government to set out its vision for a fairer Britain once we leave the EU and demonstrate how it will take a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a shared society and heal the divisions exposed during and since the referendum campaign.

Meanwhile AggregateIQ's role in the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote has been the subject of increasing scrutiny in the country, following a lengthy investigation by the Observer of London looking at links between the various entities involved and how money was spent by different groups campaigning for the UK to leave the European Union.

The company played a critical role in Britain's European Union referendum, with a total of # 3.5 m being spent on its services by four different campaigns: Vote Leave, BeLeave, Veterans for Britain and Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist party.

AggregateIQ worked with four different campaigns associated with the campaign to leave the European Union in the June 2016 Brexit referendum: Vote Leave, BeLeave, Veterans for Britain and the DUP, according to the British newspaper the Guardian.

British campaign finance experts said the allegations about Vote Leave underscored the porousness and ineffectiveness of rules on spending around referendums like the vote in 2016 to exit the European Union.

It said Cambridge Analytica, a subsidiary of the SCL political consultancy, did not use its cache of data in Donald J. Trump's 2016 campaign, and had no involvement in the European Union referendum that ended with a victory for those who support withdrawal, or Brexit, from the bloc.