Sentences with phrase «in referendum campaign»

As the so called «gang of six» of Tory cabinet ministers backing a vote to leave the UK posed next to a signed banner saying: «Let's take back control», Boris Johnson has been keeping Downing Street waiting about which way he will jump in the referendum campaign.

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.

Gordon Brown, whose 11th - hour intervention in the referendum campaign was said to be a game changer and who orchestrated the famous eve - of - poll «vow» of increased devolution signed by the three main UK party leaders, remains a vehement opponent of devolving tax powers.

On the other hand, 36 % of voters were more likely to vote SNP given its performance in the referendum campaign compared to 31 % who were less likely.

Labour has traditionally held the «standing for Scotland» mantle, but polling has shown that their performance in the referendum campaign has changed this.

Labour MPs in traditional, working class seats, say the issue of immigration is drowning out other arguments in the referendum campaign, including the remain campaign's central argument that leaving would hit jobs and economic growth.

In the referendum campaign it became clear that Corbyn was neither capable nor willing to do either.

On the back of a series of articles, particularly by Carole Cadwalladr in the Observer, the Commission began looking at the role of AggregateIQ in the referendum campaign.

And that is why both sides in the referendum campaign made it clear that a vote to leave the EU would be a vote to leave the Single Market.

To be fair to Murphy, Scottish Labour's problems predated his time as leader and Labour's collapse has far more to do with what happened in the referendum campaign than anything that has taken place since he took over.

To give one example, do you remember the revival of the infamous fuss about cucumbers, bananas, and other food standards in the referendum campaign?

Every English politician who took part in the referendum campaign was astonished by the level of knowledge and engagement.

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.

Labour leader to make long - awaited intervention in referendum campaign as Nick Clegg warns argument could already be lost

Dominic Cummings (pictured in Parliament) has refused to give evidence to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, which is investigation alleged wrongdoing in the referendum campaign

It's partly a backlash from the referendum, it's also a kicking for Labour for being involved with the Conservatives in the referendum campaign.

I'm the candidate for leader who led the case for change in this referendum campaign.

Rather like Theresa May, he didn't play a huge part in the referendum campaign.

In the meantime the Blair, Kennedy, Heseltine and Clarke axis will lead the pro-Europeans in any referendum campaign in favour of the euro.

The slogan «take back control» — used to great effect in the referendum campaign — is much more potent than «UKIP will keep an eye on the government».

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.

The success of the SNP in the Labour heartlands in the referendum campaign might mean a big upsurge in SNP representation in the House of Commons.

As a nominal «Remainer» in the Referendum campaign, she seemed an unlikely new leader of the newly Brexit - supporting Tory Party that had for forty years supported membership of the EU.

The Labour party at least officially was opposed to Brexit in the referendum campaign but their actual campaign sent rather mixed messages and this has certainly been a point of tension between the leadership and parliamentary party.

Who can forget her jibe during a TV debate in the referendum campaign?

We political correspondents may report every claim and counter-claim and every insult hurled by both sides in this referendum campaign.

One interpretation of the government's attempts was that they wanted the ability to be able to put the case for remain in the referendum campaign.

I understand that the Greens have yet to decide where they would be in that referendum campaign.

Not exact matches

Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign manager and an adviser to David Cameron's EU referendum campaign, wrote in 2015 that Jagger was «one of the savviest political observers.»

«Fundamentally she has a very small majority,» Mylles recalled, adding that Prime Minister May supported the pro-EU campaign in the lead up to the referendum.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Advertisements by the pro-HST side, for example, offer up accountants testifying to the job - creating benefits of the harmonized federal - provincial levy over the alternative specified in the referendum question, a reintroduction of the 7 % provincial sales tax — hardly the sort of stirring campaign rhetoric likely to rally a silent majority to its side.

Cambridge Analytica is under investigation in both the U.S. and the U.K. for the way it obtained data on as many as 87 million users from Facebook and for whether it used that data to target voters on behalf of the Trump campaign in the U.S. and the Brexit referendum in the U.K.

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.

Leader of the UKIP and Vote Leave campaign Nigel Farage arrives to speak to the assembled media at College Green, Westminster following the results of the EU referendum on June 24, 2016 in London.

Leaders of the campaign stress that this wouldn't be «a second referendum,» or, in other words, a mere repeat of the June 2016 vote.

The companies are at the heart of an international controversy triggered by allegations that data was inappropriately harvested to help political campaigns pull off electoral wins in the U.K.'s Brexit referendum and the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

Prior to Pishevar's tweetstorm, organization Yes California Independence Campaign started laying groundwork in hopes of putting a referendum on the ballot in 2019.

Many have criticised Corbyn for running a half - hearted campaign for Britain to stay in the EU leading up to Thursday's referendum, in which the UK shocked the world by voting to leave.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

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.

In the middle of a tense referendum campaign on the legalisation of abortion, it has had to open an official inquiry into an...

Another piece of information Facebook has included in the written evidence is the claim that it does not believe AIQ used Facebook data obtained via Kogan's apps for targeting referendum ads — saying it used email address uploads for «many» of its ad campaigns during the referendum.

Tsipras is campaigning for a no vote in the referendum on Sunday, which is officially on whether to accept a tough earlier bailout offer, to impress on EU negotiators that spiralling poverty and a collapse in everyday business activity across Greece has meant further austerity should be ruled out of any new rescue package.

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.

The documents were presumably provided by Wylie (pictured below), who has also handed email and other documentary evidence to the DCMS committee investigating online disinformation in political campaigning, as well as to the UK's data watchdog and Electoral Commission — both of which are also probing digital political campaigning issues (including around the UK's 2016 Brexit referendum vote, which Wylie alleges CA also worked on).

Earlier this month Denham told MPs on the DCMS committee that's investigating fake news that her office would be pushing for increased transparency around data flows and disclosure rules for digital political advertising — suggesting a code of conduct is needed to regulate the use of social media in political campaigns, referendums and elections.

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.

Will the B.C. Liberals campaign for «Yes» in the transit referendum they forced on the Lower Mainland?

Campaign finance refers to the rules that govern the use of money in electoral processes such as general elections, by - elections, and referenda.