Sentences with phrase «planned referendum»

In a wide - ranging interview with SPIEGEL, London Mayor Boris Johnson discusses his recent Churchill biography, his views on Britain's planned referendum on EU membership and why he believes Greece will ultimately exit the euro zone.

Tory big beasts such as Lord Lamont, Lord Lawson and Michael Portillo have spoken out this week for Britain to leave the EU ahead of David Cameron's planned referendum around 2017, should his party win the next general election outright.

A former Conservative leader said he «may vote no» and back the UK leaving the EU in his party's planned referendum if «we have not made significant changes» before 2017.

The government is planning a referendum for May but Labour objects to parts which would cut the number of MPs.

26 authorities are considering an increase of between 1.6 % and 4.4 %, though the majority will raise tax to 1.9 %, keeping them narrowly within the Government's planned referendum threshold.

The international community is attempting to persuade the two sides to resolve the situation diplomatically, but Hague conceded the Crimean local government's planned referendum on returning to Russia, and Russia's refusal to allow monitors from entering the region, were «closing down the diplomatic space».

Indeed, much of the UK government's time seems to have been taken up planning a referendum on an electoral system no one really wants.

The UK, however, has put a planned referendum on hold and there is strong opposition to it from many in Britain.

Even if it had been done, all Ukranians would have the right to vote in the eventual referendum, whereas it seems as if only Crimean citizens would have a say in the planned referendum on March 16.

Corbyn claimed that the exchanges showed that Surrey had been offered a special deal to call off its planned referendum on a 15 % increase in council tax.

Tony Blair branded «absurd» the SNP leader Alex Salmond's claim that Scots could vote for independence in the SNP's planned referendum and then return to the UK if they then wished.

The Queen has been opening the Welsh Assembly and the SNP is planning a referendum on independence, but why are there so few calls for an English Parliament?

To cap it all, the high - profile Tory MP Enoch Powell intervened in the campaign in the final few days asking people to vote Labour, and so have a choice to withdraw from the Common Market in a planned referendum.

Many Tory MPs now believe that ministers, including those in the cabinet, should also be given the right to campaign as they wish in the planned referendum.

The Cabinet will this morning discuss the UK's new special status in the EU - afterwards I'll announce the planned referendum date.

But the prime minister said that Labour and the Liberal Democrats were wrong to reject his plans to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership ahead of a planned referendum in 2017.