Sentences with phrase «referendum campaigns as»

James Carville's oft - cited advice to Bill Clinton remained as salient to the referendum campaign as in previous political contests.

They emerge from the referendum campaign as the true anti-establishment party, with the chance to sweep the 2019 European elections and to break through the FPTP system in the 2020 General Election by winning multiple seats in the House of Commons.

Labour grandee Alan Johnson has laid bare his criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's «risible» performance in the EU referendum campaign as he tore into the party leader.

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

But Watson is fighting on other fronts, too — to stitch together a fretful party, many of whose MPs see Labour's sometimes shaky performance during the referendum campaign as fresh evidence that Jeremy Corbyn is not up to the task of winning the next general election.

Not exact matches

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.

Re: 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite Results «First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

Collins asked what would happen if an organization or an individual had used a Facebook ad account to target dark ads during the referendum and then taken down the page as soon as the campaign was over.

«First and foremost, I'd like to thank The Vancouver Board of Trade's thousands of members and partners, who have shown a tremendous amount of support for our organization over the past six months, as we poured time, energy and resources into this unprecedented referendum campaign,» said Iain Black, President and CEO of The Vancouver Board of Trade and one of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition's four co-chairs.

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).

Campaign finance refers to the rules that govern the use of money in electoral processes such as general elections, by - elections, and referenda.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

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.»

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As both sides of the Scottish independence campaign use the day before the referendum to push for votes, churches across the country will open their doors for prayers.

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

In Glen Ellyn Elementary School District 41, the board was asking for a tax increase because it kept a promise to increase spending only as much as needed during the campaign for a March 1988 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 gerrymanderinAs 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 gerrymanderinas gerrymandering.

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.

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.

Not anymore as the EU referendum campaign continues to tear the Conservatives apart.

Johnson was widely criticised in the EU referendum campaign after he claimed the EU has the same goal as Hitler.

I do not envisage the conversation as an anodyne exercise in collective self - congratulation, but as a UK - wide equivalent and successor to the astonishingly profound and vigorous national conversation that took place during the Scottish referendum campaign in September 2014 — and, for that matter, to the searching, decades - long nineteenth - century conversation about the «Condition of England Question'that I describe in chapter two.

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.

She is keen to paint the EU referendum as the key issue of the campaign.

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 righAs 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 righas many voters as possible that their side is righas possible that their side is right.

David Cameron last night attacked Leave campaigners as «quitters» as he took part in the first major live televised programme of the referendum campaign.

Shortly before 23:00 BST Mr Davidson received vocal criticism after pointing out that the SNP's proposals were not always accepted — as was the case with his support for the «yes» campaign in the defeated alternative vote referendum.

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.

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).

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.

Over the past couple of weeks, as the referendum campaign reached its climax in Scotland, a concept has suddenly started springing up all over the place in English political debate: the idea of a constitutional convention.

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

To make matters worse, the specific referendum Çavuşoğlus wants to campaign for is seen as further increasing the authoritarian power of Erdoğan's government.

The referendum campaign greatly increased support for independence, which is highly correlated with SNP voting in the General Election, as well as further dividing the Scottish party system, which was already split by attitudes towards independence.

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

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.

Perceptions of «Scottishness» and «Britishness» will prove critical as nationalists and unionists plan their looming Scottish independence referendum campaign.

The reason my informant was optimistic about the referendum result - I wouldn't go as far as to say confident - was that the Remain campaign's private polling, he claimed, tells a different story to the polls we read about in the newspapers or see on TV.

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

Where the pro-union Better Together campaign could previously claim that political attitudes in England and Scotland were not greatly different, now there is a majority Tory UK government and the EU referendum has elevated right - wing figures such as Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.

Leave.EU - the nativist wing of the referendum campaign, which has now become a Breitbart - style propaganda vehicle - was putting out the same sort of material on the Salisbury attack as parts of the Corbynite left.

It was only a matter of days between Nigel Farage winning the referendum to him resigning; a matter of hours between the results being announced and David Cameron resigning; and a matter of minutes between Boris Johnson being about to launch his campaign for the Conservative leadership as the presumptive frontrunner to falling victim to rapidly shifting allegiances in his party.

They cite the difficulties of a September referendum — as seen in Scotland last year — with voters away on holiday in the campaign period.

As a nominal «Remainer» in the Referendum campaign, she seemed an unlikely new leader of the newly Brexit - supporting Tory Party that had for forty years supported membership of the EU.

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).

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.