Sentences with phrase «after the referendum campaign»

He joined the party after the referendum campaign.

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The government is considering criminalising abuse of Parliamentary candidates during campaigning and elections, after Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in the days leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016.

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.

Also on the NYC Indy Party reform to - do list: Initiative and referendum, term limits for legislators, letting voters change their enrollment after a one - month waiting period, nonpartisan administration of the Board of Elections, nonpartisan redistricting and campaign finance reform.

After a bruising EU referendum campaign, and a summer out of the spotlight, former prime minister Sir John Major reflects on his long political career — and insists he has no appetite for making a comeback

David Cameron for THAT honours list, after blundering by calling an EU referendum, fighting an unconvincing campaign and quitting as PM and then as an MP, despite saying he'd stay in the Commons.

Neither Will Straw of the remain campaign, nor Matthew Elliott are much interested in what happens after the referendum.

Johnson was widely criticised in the EU referendum campaign after he claimed the EU has the same goal as Hitler.

Grayling's awkward interview comes after former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine vented his fury ay Johnson on Tuesday, stating that the former London mayor may have ruined his chances of becoming prime minister by behaving «irresponsibly [and] recklessly» and making «preposterous, obscene political remarks» during the referendum campaign.

After a bitter referendum campaign which featured much blue - on - blue infighting, the Conservatives now face a leadership contest to choose the next Prime Minister.

Shortly before 23:00 BST Mr Davidson received vocal criticism after pointing out that the SNP's proposals were not always accepted — as was the case with his support for the «yes» campaign in the defeated alternative vote referendum.

Alex Salmond goes into the last month of campaigning for the Scottish independence referendum with a spring in his step, after two polls show a boost in support for the «Yes» camp

You can see that after 1996 the turnout has been quite low on average, so the referendum of 2005 is not a significant outlier, but I still remember a vast and hard campaign from conservatives (and especially the church) that were calling for abstentionism.

[57] Three major cinema chains stopped showing adverts by referendum campaign groups after receiving negative feedback from their customers.

After the Houston City Council passed HERO in 2014, activists with the Campaign for Houston ran a referendum to put the wide - ranging measure before voters in an attempt to repeal it.

After long being absent, Gordon Brown has suddenly been all over the referendum campaign.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

According to some opinions I have read, the recent referendum in the UK was won by a small number of men in politics and media, who immediately after the result disowned some of the major claims and promises of the winning campaign.

His first challenge was the legislation for the AV referendum on electoral reform that was defeated after Harper's other boss — David Cameron — asked Tory donors to donate to the No campaign that trashed his Cabinet Office boss.

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.

Corbyn has been widely criticised for not committing to the Remain campaign ahead of the referendum and, the day after the vote, called for Article 50 to be immediately invoked, so that negotiations on leaving the EU could begin.

Though the leadership's lacklustre performance on the EU referendum campaign trail annoyed many new members, support for Corbyn amongst members was at 55 % in mid-July, nearly a month after the result.

In 2016, David Cameron was shown as Hamlet pondering the problem of Boris Johnson after his fellow Tory made an ill - judged reference to Obama's Kenyan ancestry during the EU referendum campaign.

Just over a year ago, the Brexit referendum returned a Leave vote after a campaign based on the notion of parliamentary sovereignty.

One Labour campaign source claims the head of the Labour In campaign, Alan Johnson, asked for a meeting with Corbyn in April and was told the only available date would be July, after the Referendum.

[85] Later, after backing the Remain campaign during the referendum, Ferguson changed his mind and came out in support of Britain's exit from the EU.

CHUKA Umunna has been blasted as «xenophobic» after he poked fun at Albania in a poster for the remain campaign in the EU referendum.

Another said: «Whatever the result of the referendum, the key thing for the PM will be bringing the party back together again after a bruising campaign.

I sit down with Gove to discuss the state of the referendum campaign just hours after Cameron warned that a vote to leave the EU could risk war on the continent — a remark which sparked yet another round of Brexit indignation and accusations of scaremongering.

Tim Farron, whose party is campaigning for a second referendum on any exit deal finalised with the EU, said: «After months of platitudes and driving us headlong towards a hard Brexit out of the single market, threatening jobs and our economic security, a few empty words are utterly meaningless.

«We must champion our communities and build a politics that unites the country after the division of the EU referendum campaign.

But the referendum could not have been avoided after the SNP defied all expectations and won a majority in the Scottish Parliament on a platform of a referendum and a campaign for independence.

David Cameron's hopes of being able to avoid terminal damage to Conservative party unity after the EU referendum campaign were dented on Sunday when two rebel MPs openly called for a new leader and a general election before Christmas.

After performing badly in the first head - to - head debate in the referendum campaign he returned to what many see as a solid win against Alistair Darling, leader of the Better Together campaign.

After the 2015 election, this culminated in the suspension of collective cabinet responsibility during the referendum campaign, so that Eurosceptic ministers need not resign their posts, despite publicly contradicting everything that the PM and Chancellor were saying.

Gordon Brown's hopes of a smooth election campaign suffered a setback today after the Sun newspaper threatened to push for a referendum on Europe right up until the poll date.

The Labour Party campaigned in the 1983 general election on a commitment to withdraw from the EC without a referendum [29] although after a heavy defeat Labour changed its policy.

In his farewell address after his latest stint as Ukip leader, Mr Farage said the Leave referendum campaign — despite the attempts from «snobby Tories» to distance themselves from him — had been the «inspiration» behind the Republican candidate's success.

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.

Senior Conservatives have already questioned whether he wants to remain in his post after he launched a «theatrical» outburst against David Cameron and George Osborne in a Cabinet meeting over their refusal to denounce tactics used by the No campaign in the AV 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.

His intervention comes after the Prime Minister last week said that he would allow his ministers to campaign on either side of the argument ahead of the in - out referendum — but only once his renegotiation with Brussels is complete.

Mr Farage said yesterday that Mr Cameron and Ed Miliband had «panicked» in making generous promises to the Scottish government, on behalf of English taxpayers, after a «lacklustre» start to the referendum campaign.

The poll implies that Scottish voters have been deeply disillusioned with Labour, only a month after the party successfully spearheaded the no campaign's victory in the Scottish independence referendum.

They feel their views are being bulldozed... We are saying sign up to Open Britain, give us some money and help us campaign against this Brexit at all costs,» Mandelson said, referring to the pro-European campaign group set up after the EU referendum.

Easier, too, to throw around vague, anti-Semitic tropes about George Soros than to come clean about where the Brexit campaign cash came from, after openDemocracy's reporting triggered questions in parliament about the role of dark money in the EU referendum — and the concerns about foreign and particularly Russian interference in western democracies.

Most of the Ulster Unionist Party were for «No» in the referendum, most prominently the former Conservative minister Enoch Powell, who after Benn was the second-most prominent anti-Marketeer in the campaign.

[6] TBP therefore announced it would be campaigning for the Alternative Vote in the referendum «as a stepping stone to PR, but only after other options are exhausted».

Former UK Chancellor Alistair Darling is heading the campaign against Scottish independence - but what will he do after the referendum?

Johnson said last week that he would endorse one side in the referendum campaign with a «deafening éclat» soon after the prime minister reached a deal in Brussels.