Sentences with phrase «referendum campaign calls»

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When it came to that last question, there was plenty of anger to go around, with many complaining about David Cameron's decision to call the referendum, others infuriated at the weak Leave campaign, and still others offering less than polite commentary on segments of their fellow citizens.

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.

PARIS (AP)-- The leader of France's far - right National Front set the tone for her campaign for the French presidency Saturday, calling to fight an Islamist «offensive» and promising to hold a nationwide referendum on European Union membership if she is...

... came up with an idea that led to the foundation of a company called Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that went on to claim a major role in the Leave campaign for Britain's EU membership referendum, and later became a key figure in digital operations during Donald Trump's election campaign.

Although a call for a referendum to decide the path of Yunker farm development has become a campaign issue for the April 1 election, trustees said they would not make their approval contingent on a referendum.

David Cameron for THAT honours list, after blundering by calling an EU referendum, fighting an unconvincing campaign and quitting as PM and then as an MP, despite saying he'd stay in the Commons.

A cross-party group of MPs is launching a nationwide campaign to force Gordon Brown to call a referendum on the EU treaty.

He called on Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum but campaigned passionately for a Remain vote, to quit «immediately».

Mr Cameron's continued calls for a referendum came as the campaign group I Want A Referendum launched their own mass lobreferendum came as the campaign group I Want A Referendum launched their own mass lobReferendum launched their own mass lobby of MPs.

Such woolliness is characteristic of the current campaign for a «People's Vote» (we're no longer allowed to call it a second referendum).

You can see that after 1996 the turnout has been quite low on average, so the referendum of 2005 is not a significant outlier, but I still remember a vast and hard campaign from conservatives (and especially the church) that were calling for abstentionism.

The Yes to Fairer Votes campaign has announced the first appointments to the team that will lead the call for a «Yes» vote on the Alternative Vote (AV) in next year's referendum.

[18] In Lewisham, the Bring Back Democracy campaign called for a new referendum, citing poor turnout and a very close result in the 2001 referendum.

Even if Cameron wins the referendum following a negotiation that brings little immediate practical change there will be calls for more reforms from those that lost and perhaps from a Labour leadership that campaigned reluctantly to stay in.

A concern that a new settlement will be a stitch - up amongst the major political parties and the vibrancy of the referendum campaign in Scotland have energised campaigners to call for a convention that is either constituted fully by randomly - selected citizens (as with the British Columbia Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform) or one that is a mix of randomly - selected citizens and participants appointed by political parties (as with the Irish Constitutional Convention).

Corbyn has been widely criticised for not committing to the Remain campaign ahead of the referendum and, the day after the vote, called for Article 50 to be immediately invoked, so that negotiations on leaving the EU could begin.

But he repeated his call for an early referendum on devolving income tax power to the Welsh Government and said Conservatives would campaign for lower taxes.

He called the company a central point in the right's «propaganda machine», a line I quoted in reference to its work for the Trump election campaign and the referendum Leave campaign.

The groups, through a coalition called New Yorkers Against Corruption, funded an ad campaign opposing the referendum.

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.

The Telegraph reports that the six are calling on the prime minister to lift collective ministerial responsibility on the EU referendum campaign.

David Cameron's hopes of being able to avoid terminal damage to Conservative party unity after the EU referendum campaign were dented on Sunday when two rebel MPs openly called for a new leader and a general election before Christmas.

Carswell was one of those calling for Farage to take a break over the summer but he denied being one of the party figures who wanted the Ukip leader to step down completely over fears he was too divisive to lead its EU referendum «out» campaign.

Local Lib Dems distributed a leaflet showing Hoey's face merged with Farage and distributed images of the pair celebrating on board the so - called Brexit flotilla during the EU referendum campaign.

He also called both campaigns in the referendum «pathetic» and said he's merely enforcing what has been Tory policy for decades.

The prospect of an election is what has triggered the action against Corbyn and comes as a leaked poll commissioned by the party revealed that over one in four (27 %) of Labour voters was less likely to vote for the party following the referendum campaign in which 214 Labour MPs called on people to vote to remain in the EU.

Mr Johnson was criticised for calling the American President «part - Kenyan» during the EU referendum campaign who harboured an «ancestral dislike» for Britain.

In a statement, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Chris Van Hollen called Murphy's victory a referendum on President Obama's economic policies.

David Cameron is quizzed about the upcoming alternative vote (AV) referendum - and a call for the PM to back the No campaign - with a question from Conservative MP Stuart Andrew comparing it to an Olympic race.

«Today I call on Gov. [Andrew M.] Cuomo to tell the people of New York without any equivocation whether he supports a yes or a no vote on the Constitutional Convention referendum this Election Day,» said Bill Samuels, a major campaign contributor for decades who created an advocacy group to hold a constitutional convention next year.

Brexit campaigner Shahmir Sanni told Channel 4 that the British referendum's «Vote Leave» campaign spent over its legal limit by using the Canadian data firm called Aggregate IQ — adding that the company had links to Cambridge Analytica.

The prime minister will now go to parliament on Monday to begin the process of calling the referendum, leaving about four months for campaigning.

Nick Clegg called on fellow electoral reformers to «get up, dust ourselves down and move on» as he and David Cameron, a partner in the coalition but an opponent during the campaign, absorbed the result of the referendum that had become so central to the government in its first year in office.

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.

Publishing a 5 point plan on how Britain's status as a world leader on equality and human rights can be maintained and strengthened after we leave the European Union, Mr Isaac has called for the government to set out its vision for a fairer Britain once we leave the EU and demonstrate how it will take a once in a lifetime opportunity to create a shared society and heal the divisions exposed during and since the referendum campaign.

According to a report in The Guardian on 28 June 2016 («Ad watchdog powerless to act on controversial Brexit campaigns»), ASA has received almost 400 complaints about what petitioners have called misleading, inaccurate and discriminatory ads intended to influence voters ahead of the referendum.

Roughly a week before the EU referendum, Vote Leave inexplicably donated # 625,000 to a young fashion design student named Darren Grimes, the founder of a small, unofficial Brexit campaign called BeLeave.

Sanni's central claim concerns a donation of # 625,000 that Vote Leave ostensibly made to an independent referendum campaign organisation called BeLeave.

In the wake of the Scottish independence movement's recent failure to win the referendum, supporters have created a campaign group called «We are the 45 %.»