Sentences with phrase «referendum campaign»

This year's Scottish referendum campaign then saw his resurrection as possibly the most effective defender of the union.

As the Scottish independence referendum campaign enters its final stages, both sides will still be hoping that they can persuade as many voters as possible that their side is right.

Given this variation in party fortunes, a particularly bad argument in the recent referendum campaign was that if you wanted to avoid Conservative government you should vote for independence.

Both sides in the Scottish referendum campaign have held rallies as they make their final efforts to win over undecided voters.

The provision came under intense scrutiny when it emerged earlier this year that the Democratic Unionist party had spent # 425,000 in the run - up to the 2016 EU referendum campaigning for Brexit.

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

Conservatives set to help DUP conceal details of past donations, including controversial sum given during referendum campaign

Boris Johnson has been wooed by both the in and out camps to be a key figure in their respective EU referendum campaigns as the two sides seek to exploit the «Heineken» London mayor who can reach out to voters across the political spectrum.

«In February I put together a very detailed PLP brief for the EU referendum campaign on the impact of Brexit on the environment, with some input from the shadow DECC team too, and submitted it for approval.

Carswell's defection will also provide Cameron with a preview of what he might face if he goes into an in / out EU referendum campaigning for the UK to stay in, as his party faces being torn apart by ongoing fractures over Europe.

The unionist party named the CRC as their donors on Thursday night, ahead of Friday's release of Brexit referendum campaign spending by the Electoral Commission.

An early Brexit referendum will give them an immediate focus to bounce back — and one that could well boost their party's organizational potential, as the Scottish referendum campaign so clearly did for the SNP.

I felt, however, that the «whispering campaign» from those bearing personal grudges against me meant that my role in the 2010 General Election was limited (at some cost to the party) and I did not help the AV referendum campaign in any significant way.

[57] Three major cinema chains stopped showing adverts by referendum campaign groups after receiving negative feedback from their customers.

As the constitutional fallout from the Scottish Independence Referendum campaign continues, Stephen Barber looks at how the two main party leaders down south are addressing «the English Question».

After a bitter referendum campaign which featured much blue - on - blue infighting, the Conservatives now face a leadership contest to choose the next Prime Minister.

One criticism of both the European Union referendum campaigns is that they are a bit male - dominated...

During the battle over the European referendum campaign, the designated lead campaign groups on either side were allowed to spend up to # 7m.

He is indeed reconnecting with the Labour heartlands, as his EU referendum campaign showed.

Also providing advice is the Washington DC - based public affairs firm Goddard Gunster, which has run dozens of referenda campaigns over the past 30 years and claims a success rate of more than 90 per cent.

Even as a relatively little - known journalist I have been taken aback at the amount of abuse I have attracted since the EU referendum campaign began.

Instead, it may be that the societally contentious referendum campaign gave pro-independence voters the same personal attachment to their Westminster party as their referendum preference.

The dramatic poll for STV said the SNP could win up to 54 Scottish seats and said Labour's popularity was its lowest level since 2007, only a month after Labour had spearheaded a victorious referendum campaign against independence.

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

This is what should have been clear all along, the process of consolidation, that the long referendum campaign encouraged, meant that pro-independence voters have rallied behind the SNP.

It is a case that hardly received any national publicity during the extraordinary referendum campaign, but it goes to the heart of the historic decision that the House is being asked to make now.»

Predictably and understandably, much of the recent commentary as focussed on the divisive referendum campaign and the fact that the UK voted to leave.

My favourite moment of the whole referendum campaign so far was feisty Faisal's brilliant quip: «What comes first: World War Three or the global Brexit recession?»

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has made an audacious attempt to emulate England soccer legend John Barnes as EU referendum campaigning comes to a close.

The Scottish independence referendum campaign grew in passion and determination towards 18 September.

Another staffer who worked on the EU referendum campaign told the paper that questions at speaking events were written up by Mr Corbyn's team in advance and handed out to supporters on the day.

The Scottish referendum campaign closed with the solemn vow of more powers to Scotland.

Another account of the Yes to AV referendum campaign calls for lessons to be learned.

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

He knows that large numbers of people are against gambling and will come out to vote, and that referenda campaigns cost the industry effort and financial resources.

In some cases, evidence of past incorrect opinion is sufficient: The CEO of the software firm Mozilla, Brendan Eich, was hounded from his post in 2014 for a $ 1,000 contribution to a 2008 California referendum campaign against gay marriage, evidence of a position he shared at the time with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

During the failed referendum campaign earlier this month to build an aquatic park, Zirk said he heard residents say the money would be better spent on fixing the village's water and street problems.

Mr. Schwartz was instrumental in the passage of the $ 100 million Suffolk Clean Drinking referendum campaign, as well as the Long Island Maritime Reserve, the fourth such reserve to be created in the State.

The Leave campaign argued during a bitter four - month referendum campaign that the only way Britain could «take back control» of its own affairs would be to leave the EU.

During the 2014 independence referendum campaign football was again mooted as a way to foster support for the union with the Better Together cup floated as a stunt that would see Scottish and English legends play a high profile game.

However a former foe from the EU referendum campaign then popped up on social media to suggest that Gove knew a thing or two about distortion by pointing to some of the more eye - catching but controversial claims made by the Leave campaign that Gove led.

The party's current success comes against a backdrop of winning only 6 MPs in 2010, having as little popularity as the widely - loathed Scottish Conservatives as recently as 2013 and, in September of last year, leading a losing referendum campaign that forced a change in party leadership.

The ace political number cruncher Robert (now Lord) Hayward tells me: «Unless something substantial changes in the remaining days of the Euro referendum campaign, the balance of probability is that the nation will vote to leave.»

This finding seems to indicate a high level of political engagement in Scotland during the current referendum campaign, in which the franchise has been extended to those aged 16 - 18.