Sentences with phrase «call for a referendum»

It had previously been reported more than 100 Labour MPs supported calls for a referendum.
The report calls for a referendum to be held this year and for the government consolidation transition to begin in 2018.
The first minister has dismissed suggestions that the SNP would call for another referendum even if «No» win by a small margin.
Meanwhile, the proposal requires school districts to call for any referendum during a regularly scheduled election and only twice a year.
The report calls for a referendum to be held this year and for the consolidation transition to begin in 2018.
Unlock Democracy's protest on Saturday succeeded in attracting support from Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg and the group is hoping its efforts will help strengthen the party's resolve in calling for a referendum on electoral reform as coalition negotiations continue.
Nevertheless, the GMB and RMT unions are set to join the Conservatives and UKIP in calling for a referendum before the EU Treaty is set to come into force in 2009.
2.51 pm: Mark Pritchard, the secretary of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee who recently got onto the front page of the Daily Telegraph by calling for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, has issued a statement responding to Chris Huhne's Tea Party jibe.
The move broke ranks with official Labour Party policy, and shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the party was «not calling for a referendum at this stage».
The Lib Dem leader previously refused to back calls for a referendum on the EU treaty, arguing it was not necessary as the document appeared to differ sufficiently from the failed EU constitution.
In October 2011, 79 Tory MPs voted for a Commons motion calling for a referendum on Britain's relationship with the EU, despite Cameron's having ordered his party to oppose it.
Earlier Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer hinted Labour could change its policy on another Brexit vote by saying the party was «not calling for a referendum at this stage».
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Tomorrow MPs will also vote on a Conservative - led amendment calling for a referendum on the Lisbon treaty.
Mr Walker, the MP for Worcester, said calls for a referendum could not compromise the UK's efforts to support the eurozone.
Scots, a majority of whom want to stay, have said they will call for a referendum for their own independence (remember the 2014 Scottish referendum?
Then comes the DUP's Nigel Dodds, who calls for a referendum on the changes in Europe.
She wraps up by calling for a referendum again: «Let us reshape this bill, let us reshape the Lords and then let us ask the British people for their endorsement.»
But she then calls for a referendum on Lords reform, which Clegg isn't so keen on.
We also welcome measures to reduce uncertainty to business at a time of fragile economic recovery — so a move to only call for a referendum if certain and well understood conditions are not met is helpful.
It has repeatedly called for a referendum on Italy leaving the euro single currency, and has criticized EU policy making, but says it does not want Italy to abandon the European Union.
This was due to an ongoing call for a referendum that could have made the region independent from Spain.
Mokena Park District officials say they will lobby Edgar to veto the bill calling for a referendum.
The prime minister also faced questions on Europe from opposition backbenchers, including the DUP's Nigel Dodds who repeated calls for a referendum and former business minister Pat McFadden.
Gordon Brown is facing more pressure over the EU treaty, with some of his own MPs now joining calls for a referendum.
Gordon Brown has once again rejected calls for a referendum on the EU treaty as campaigners descend on parliament.
Mr Cameron's continued calls for a referendum came as the campaign group I Want A Referendum launched their own mass lobby of MPs.
If leaving the EU would really be such a catastrophe why did David Cameron call for the referendum in the first place?
The Lib Dems called for a referendum on the final Brexit deal, which got unhelpfully billed as a «second» referendum.
In the aftermath of the election, the FN called for a referendum on the EU, the blocking of EU institutions, and a snap general election.
A group of Labour candidates has written a letter to Gordon Brown calling for a referendum on electoral reform to be held on the day of the general election.
The Conservatives are introducing a Commons amendment on Wednesday calling for a referendum and are hoping to pick up support from Liberal Democrat MPs and some Labour backbenchers.
But Linda Ervin, floor leader and representative for the Onondaga County Legislature's 17th district, ruled out the feasibility of the legislature to approve a referendum this year — dashing the hope for a referendum despite Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, who attended the debate, recently calling for the referendum to take place.
By James Briggs A Milwaukee alderman on Monday called for a referendum to let voters advise Common Council members on whether the city should build a $ 64.6 million streetcar line.
The timeline calls for the referendum to be on the ballot in the November 2015 election.
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Delegates backed a motion from the GMB calling for a referendum to highlight, but rejected a motion by the RMT which would have required the TUC to campaign for a no vote.
Labour's decision to back the prime minister in opposing a Commons motion calling for a referendum meant there was not a chance that the government would be defeated.
Conservatives have consistently called for a referendum but last week David Cameron suggested, in the event of it actually coming into force, a referendum may no longer be appropriate.
The foreign secretary hit out at Conservative calls for a referendum, saying eight members of the Tory shadow Cabinet had blocked a public vote in the Maastricht treaty.
Different pressure groups from the South East and the South South rose from a meeting in Umuahia over the weekend calling for a referendum on the...
Boris Johnson knows calling for a referendum hits his party's sweet spot and so does it regularly
Labour will consider calling for a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union, in its wide - ranging policy review.
Passing an Amendment (18 April 2018) which would force the Government to renege on its Manifesto commitment to leave the customs union is an outrage, and I for one have decided in consequence, and regretfully, to sign the petition calling for a referendum on the abolition of the House of Lords.
The New York constitution calls for a referendum on a constitutional convention every 20 years and when the State Legislature calls for one.
But Mr Campbell, on the eve of his party conference in Brighton, said he still opposed the Conservative and TUC call for a referendum on the draft treaty agreed by EU leaders.
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