Sentences with phrase «referendum campaign on»

Before SCL had dealings in St. Kitts and Nevis, in 2009 the company worked on a major referendum campaign on the Caribbean islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to defeat an attempt to establish a new constitution to replace the one that had been enacted when the country became independent from British rule in 1979.

This campaign unit could also start to think about the referendum campaign on electoral reform; how it should be fought and who should lead it.

Alan Johnson would launch Labour's Euro - referendum campaign on 1 December, and members who complain about receiving messages from the «official Labour leave campaign» should be reassured that there is no such thing.

«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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

Last year, the governing coalition broke its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Iceland joining the European Union, prompting thousands of Icelanders to protest and sign petitions demanding a parliamentary vote.

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.

The Church has published a «Prayer for the EU referendum campaign» on its website that can be used by churches and individuals ahead of the vote on June 23, the church said.

Suddenly a campaign, which Goldsmith believed would be a referendum on Heathrow, had become a referendum on Brexit.

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

But if the vote happens, the best case would be the referendum campaign leads to some soul searching on both sides.

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.

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.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP)-- A month ahead of Hungary's referendum on European Union migrant quotas, the government's relentless anti-migrant campaign has become inescapable and shows no sign of letting up.

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...

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

... 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.

But the problem here is that Cambridge Analytica did not just employ sophisticated mass marketing, it went the whole hog and ran very specific targeted marketing campaigns for Trump while an allegedly linked Canadian company used the same technology on behalf of the Vote Leave campaign during the EU Referendum.

As the final day of campaigning continues in Scotland ahead of Thursday's referendum on independence, a Catholic MSP says a yes vote comes with too many risks.

Thus the «right to die» campaign was able to represent the issue as a general referendum «on getting government out of this important personal decision,» and «on returning control of end of life decisions to where it belongs - with the dying person.»

There is a fairly constant onslaught on the fundamental right to life — from Ireland with its proposed referendum on permitting abortion, to campaigns for increased access to abortion and euthanasia in many parts of the world.

The board can not spend district funds on the referendum campaign, but its members, acting as private citizens, can.

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.

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.

In particular, the legislation would set out the date of the referendum, the franchise, the wording of the question, rules on campaign financing, and other rules for the conduct of the referendum.

But, aware that the prospect of a second referendum plays badly with even moderate «Yes» voters, the SNP will spend the next six weeks playing down the independence dimension while the Tories place it at the centre of their campaign, an attempt to turn the general election into a referendum on a referendum.

As things stand Labour, which campaigned at the election on holding a referendum on AV, is not going to support the bill because of what it sees as gerrymandering.

Also on the NYC Indy Party reform to - do list: Initiative and referendum, term limits for legislators, letting voters change their enrollment after a one - month waiting period, nonpartisan administration of the Board of Elections, nonpartisan redistricting and campaign finance reform.

After a bruising EU referendum campaign, and a summer out of the spotlight, former prime minister Sir John Major reflects on his long political career — and insists he has no appetite for making a comeback

Of course, all of this can only strengthen the hand of those of us who will be campaigning for a yes vote in the referendum on further powers in Wales.

Price's conclusion is telling: «Lengthy and vigorous popular press campaigns demanded economic protectionism in the 1920s and a referendum on Europe in the 1990s and 2000s.

Grayling's awkward interview comes after former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine vented his fury ay Johnson on Tuesday, stating that the former London mayor may have ruined his chances of becoming prime minister by behaving «irresponsibly [and] recklessly» and making «preposterous, obscene political remarks» during the referendum campaign.

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

So far his strategy has been to avoid taking a firm and coherent position on whether Britain should be In or Out by abdicating responsibility to the public in a future referendum, in what has become the central plank of the Conservative's European election campaign.

Olney ousted former Tory Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond Park by - election, having campaigned for a referendum on the terms of Britain's exit from the European Union.

To secure his grip on power in RS by perpetuating an environment of fear of violence, Mr Dodik is using the referendum as part of his campaign for the 2016 local elections.

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.

Bob Turner's campaign became a referendum on President Obama — and we won!

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

A referendum in June is undoubtedly his preference given the mood music the media's being fed, allowing Cameron to capitalise on infighting between the Leave campaigns as well as minimising as far as possible splits within the Conservatives (at least, compared with what they'd be like were the referendum not until the autumn or 2017).

All the polls so far have shown that the «no» campaign are on course to win the independence referendum, but if that changes, Alex Salmond will have Osborne in large part to thank.

A poll released yesterday by ComRes for the Independent on Sunday newspaper showed the «no» campaign ahead but with a little over last two weeks before the referendum these events will be key for both campaigns to get their message across to the public.

eu campaign who have today tried to put a spin on quotes made 20 years ago about keeping or losing the pound, I have to say strongly my comments were not about this referendum and should not be misused in this way!

Both the «no» and «yes» to campaigns hosted cross-party events as the referendum on the alternative vote looms ever closer.

On the flip - side, hundreds of independent media outlets were closed in the run - up to the introduction of the bill and the subsequent campaign for the referendum.