Sentences with phrase «referendum campaigning comes»

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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.

... 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.

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.

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.

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.

And the Labour Party, which had opposed the referendum during the election campaign, has now come out in support of the vote.

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.

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.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.

The rows came as opinion polls showed support for Scottish independence continues to fall, ahead of a referendum campaign agreed by Salmond and David Cameron this week.

the Lords voted for now the majority of the electorate which have now come to see the lies which were told during the referendum campaign.

Every party faces different prospects in the EU referendum, based on their relative political weight coming in and their campaign standings.

The challenge to Matheson now comes from Mandy Telford, former President of the National Union of Students and former Cumbria Councillor, who moved back to Scotland after campaigning in the referendum campaign.

The comments came as Mr Osborne admitted the Government's Referendum campaign was «the wrong one».

[85] Later, after backing the Remain campaign during the referendum, Ferguson changed his mind and came out in support of Britain's exit from the EU.

It comes as the Conservative party has had decided to adopt a position of neutrality during the upcoming EU referendum campaign.

He was unashamedly for staying in the EU, and when it comes to a referendum will be campaigning for a «big majority for staying in and put to bed this dreary argument.»

Many on the Leave side have long calculated that, realistically, the best they could do in this campaign was to come close enough to keep open the prospect of another referendum.

This is the first time since David Cameron pledged the referendum in January 2013 that the Leave campaign has come out ahead of Remain in the monthly telephone poll by Ipsos MORI.

Much of the early debate about Britain's coming in - out referendum on the European Union has concerned the operation of these rules: the wording of the question on the ballot paper, campaign spending limits and the extent to which David Cameron and his ministers should go into policy - purdah in the final weeks.

«The whole country must come together in the wake of what became a divisive referendum campaign, discuss the consequences calmly, and rationally and I want Labour to lead that debate,» he said.

It is therefore difficult for the Liberal Democrats to avoid a referendum in the long term, and the manifesto pledges to campaign in favour of staying in the EU when the time comes.

We will also be releasing wave 8 — a rolling campaign wave stretching from the local elections to the referendum — and wave 9 — a post-referendum wave, in the coming months.

Grieve said: «The problem I have with what Michael says is that he has had a fairly consistent pattern since the start of this referendum campaign of coming out with statements which simply don't bear proper scrutiny.

Then we come to the referendum campaign.

We will also campaign against the AV referendum - this would make Clegg the kingmaker for evermore - getting full PR would allow a broader coalition to come to power, whilst AV would simply cement the centre - right into power for the forseeable future.

His intervention comes after the Prime Minister last week said that he would allow his ministers to campaign on either side of the argument ahead of the in - out referendum — but only once his renegotiation with Brussels is complete.

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.

In the coming weeks, the Electoral Commission will publish details of how much cash the various larger campaigns threw at the European referendum.

Easier, too, to throw around vague, anti-Semitic tropes about George Soros than to come clean about where the Brexit campaign cash came from, after openDemocracy's reporting triggered questions in parliament about the role of dark money in the EU referendum — and the concerns about foreign and particularly Russian interference in western democracies.

There, a nationalist party came to power, and decided to hold a referendum on independence, where the no campaign was ahead, but its lead started to dwindle as the campaign progressed.

I am told by someone who knows both men well that when Craig Oliver, the last Prime Minister's communications director, told his former boss he was writing a book about the EU referendum campaign, Cameron urged him to make sure that Osborne came out of it well.

«We will be campaigning to keep Britain in Europe in the coming referendum, regardless of David Cameron's tinkering, because it brings investment, jobs and protection for British workers and consumers.»

But even then they could only be hoping May gets such a bad deal from EU, in a year or so, that they can then campaign for her to put it to a 2nd referendum (as not being what we voted on in the original one), then hoping it would be rejected and we could somehow withdraw the Art 50 notice (unlikely) and stay in EU after all — so they would need Parl to wangle a right to reports on progress, as otherwise the bad deal would only come out too late to stay in.

Rod MacLeod, partner at Tods Murray, says: «Whether we like it or not, the legacy of the independence referendum will cast a long shadow on the constitutional and economic future of the UK for some time to come, as promises made in the final weeks of the campaign on enhanced devolved powers for Scotland covering finance, welfare and taxation, now have to be delivered.

The remainers» dire predictions for the economy in the EU referendum campaign have not come to pass, at least not yet.

Further evidence of contact between senior figures at Vote Leave and BeLeave during the referendum came in a witness statement from Matthew Elliott, the campaign chief, which was submitted to the High Court on March 13, 2018 as part of a judicial review.

Wylie's testimony came a day after Wylie and two other former insiders presented 50 pages of documents that they said proved Vote Leave violated election finance rules during the referendum campaign.