Sentences with phrase «battle over the referendum»

Miliband's advisers, in their Westminster bubble, seem to have forgotten that the Scottish Labour party is fighting a fierce battle over the referendum.

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Two months ago, I wrote here that the internal battles over the EU referendum risked making the business of government much more difficult.

But the referendum battle over the future of the UK concerns Scotland - based voters alone, and the outcome of the independence referendum is likely to be determined by the current 10 or 15 per cent of the «don't know» Scottish electors, mostly in Scotland's central belt.

After two weeks of Conservative battles over a European referendum and gay marriage, Clegg will also admit that the past fortnight has seen the coalition lacking leadership, focus and an ability to govern.

With a brutal battle raging for the future of the Conservative party, and the vast majority of Labour's MPs united over Europe, the early stages of the referendum campaign brought temporary relief from the relentless rumours about party coups, splits and leadership challenges.

As battle lines are drawn in the debate over whether Britain should leave the EU, the legal sector is beginning to take sides, with both pro and anti-Brexit groups of lawyers campaigning in the run up to the June referendum.

The battle began well over 30 years before the referendum.