Sentences with phrase «of referendum on»

In some ways it was representative of a referendum on the bridge itself.

Our aim is to inform the debate in the aftermath of the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union with accessible commentary and research.

Our aim is to inform the debate in the aftermath of the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union with accessible commentary and research.

Similarly, the result of the referendum on an alternative voting system in 2011 required no change, but had it been otherwise, it was beyond doubt that change could have been achieved only by legislation passed by Parliament.

The new European Union (EU) Regulation will apply to the UK, despite the outcome of the referendum on Brexit, and will replace the current Data Protection Directive of 1995.

Our aim is to inform the debate in the aftermath of the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union with accessible commentary and research.

Unlike the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011, which indicated that legislation would incorporate the result of a referendum on whether to adopt the alternative voting system, the European Union Referendum Act 2015 did not make the result legally binding.

So what, aside from the constant process of attack, denigration, conflating the process of science itself as well as uncertainty with refutation of the basic theory of Climate Change itself, and constantly picking out of context incomplete pieces of corroboration and misrepresenting them as some sort of referendum on climate change, is that theory that it wouldn't, or at least the presumption that it wouldn't, based upon?

Our aim is to inform the debate in the aftermath of the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union with accessible commentary and research.

1995 I joined my family in Montréal for the unity rally ahead of the referendum on Québec sovereignty.

The attempt to write the playbook on what it takes to get first - generation low - income black and Hispanic kids into the world with college degrees in hand will offer something of a referendum on KIPP and the No Excuses model.

Do you see any kind of referendum on Trump?

Thousands of additional Wicklow residents have registered to vote ahead of the Referendum on May 25.

Our aim is to inform the debate in the aftermath of the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union with accessible commentary and research.

Our aim is to inform the debate in the aftermath of the referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union with accessible commentary and research.

And if the dinosaurs like Prescott fight bitterly against any extension of democracy and win, how much chance will there be of a referendum on real democracy in the future?

Speaking after Mr Cameron had addressed a meeting of Tory MPs, shadow foreign secretary William Hague said: «We will offer to the Liberal Democrats in a coalition government the holding of a referendum on the alternative vote system, so that the people of this country can decide what the best electoral system is for the future.»

They include fairer funding of the trade union movement; staggered timing of the election debates; and, most interestingly, the holding of a referendum on general election day to mobilise the maximum possible Tory vote.

Following the SNP Government's announcement of a referendum on Scottish independence she was a key figure in Better Together, the cross-party movement that sought to keep Scotland in the United Kingdom.

He said his party would support the government's amendment but only so it could try to amend it «radically» in favour of a referendum on a «more proportional» system.

The only chance of a referendum on this treaty is if the Tories grant one should they win the general election in the future.

A policy similar to the one used by Australia was among the key pledges made by Vote Leave campaigners such as Boris Johnson ahead of the referendum on June 23 - but the new Prime Minister, appointed after the vote, dismissed the idea saying there were questions about whether such systems ever worked.

The Liberal Democrats have put a pledge of a referendum on the UK's final deal with the EU at the heart of their pitch to voters, hoping to gain Remain supporters alienated by the two largest parties» stance on Brexit.

But the Tories had not offered a guarantee of a referendum on introducing the alternative vote electoral system, in which voters rank candidates on preference rather than place a cross against one candidate alone.

If they had been well ahead there would have been no offer of a referendum on the Alternative Vote.

David Cameron's promise of a referendum on the UK's future membership of the European Union could create problems, Tony Blair has warned.

For such a supposedly dry topic, the prospect of a referendum on electoral reform produces painful contortions that seem to make no sense at all.

Mr Brown also said the promises made ahead of the referendum on change and further devolution would be delivered.

David Cameron is not in favour of a referendum on reforms to the House of Lords, he has said ahead of the release of a report which is likely to call for a mainly elected upper chamber.

«However, it is right that the Labour party respects the outcome of the referendum on leaving the European Union.

Cameron had pinned his hopes on Merkel's backing for a renegotiation of the EU's founding treaties, in advance of a referendum on the UK's membership.

In March 2008 he was one of three Liberal Democrat spokesmen to defy the party whip and vote in favour of a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, for which he rewarded by being sacked from his frontbench role.

Fellow Conservative Gary Streeter, a member of the Speaker's Committee on the Electoral Commission, explained that the final cost of the referendum on the parliamentary voting system will be published in the autumn.

To win this battle of the referendum on AV, Conservatives should not be closed to some reform of First Past the Post.

It's 100 days today until 5th May - still (with one eye on the House of Lords) the likely date of the referendum on whether we should ditch our current voting system and replace it with the Alternative Vote.

He also launched a scathing attack on the Tories, branding their plans for deeper spending cuts after the election «slashing for its own sake», and complaining that the prospect of a referendum on EU membership is undermining business confidence.

ConservativeHome ran a campaign, the Conservative Party supported it, and the coalition agreement specifies it, so whatever happens between now and May 2015, another boundary review is on the way and, regardless of the result of a referendum on the «alternative vote», the next General Election will be fought on new boundaries, with equalizing the size of the electorate the absolute priority for how those boundaries are drawn up.

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

«With the result of the referendum on the European Union, the country faces a deeply challenging time ahead.

The Conservative's promise of a referendum on Lisbon was always about something far broader than the Treaty itself; it sought a mandate to go to Brussels to renegotiate the terms of our membership of the EU commensurate with British interests and public attitudes.

We were pleased when the BBC banned the use of the phrase electoral «reform» in its coverage of the referendum on whether to change the voting system.

Anyway, the timing of a referendum on the Brexit terms would be very tight indeed, unless Brexit day were delayed.

This Friday, David Cameron is expected to announce plans of a referendum on Britain's status amongst the Brussels based elite.

«I don't see this congressional election as being much of a referendum on Obama's positions on Israel,» said Mollenkopf.

Chances of a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU recede, after peers vote to kill off the bill enshrining it in law

The Electoral Reform Society has welcomed news of a convincing vote in the Commons in favour of a referendum on the Alternative Vote.

The party was still divided over Europe, and talk of a referendum on joining the Eurozone was rife.

But supporters of Democratic Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer are trying to turn it into something of a referendum on the president.

Labour grandee Peter Mandelson has praised Ed Miliband's «leadership and guts» for refusing to match the Conservative promise of a referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017.

David Cameron's historic pledge of a referendum on the terms of Britain's membership of the European Union in 2017 has not paid the political dividends he would have hoped.