Sentences with phrase «referendum on brexit»

The new European Union (EU) Regulation will apply to the UK, despite the outcome of the referendum on Brexit, and will replace the current Data Protection Directive of 1995.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has urged the SNP to back his campaign for a new referendum on Brexit.

From Owen Smith, who was sacked from the shadow cabinet for calling for a referendum on the Brexit outcome

But today Ms Abbott and Shadow Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner both said their party does not support a second referendum on Brexit.

Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary broke ranks with the party by calling for a second referendum on Brexit

If Cameron will call a referendum on a Brexit, a British exit from the European Union, it will make both Europe and the UK nervous.

Now the former Ukip leader has gone to even more drastic lengths to make the news, with a suggestion that it may be time to hold a second referendum on Brexit.

Owen Smith was sacked over calls for a further referendum on Brexit despite the Party's conference policy still holding this out as a possibility if the May's eventual deal proves to be unacceptable.

Senior party sources suggested that, although Cable backed the policy first proposed under Farron of a second referendum on Brexit, he wanted to lean heavily on his credibility as a former cabinet minister to give the party more gravitas.

Furthermore, it's equally questionable whether the power in the amendment would extend to requiring a referendum on the Brexit terms.

Anyway, the timing of a referendum on the Brexit terms would be very tight indeed, unless Brexit day were delayed.

Her former special adviser, now retired, who generated (slightly) tricky questions for his erstwhile boss by endorsing a second referendum on Brexit.

The advisory referendum on Brexit took place before Trump's election.

The Liberal Democrats, who gave the Tories the jitters in David Cameron's Witney constituency last week by slashing the former PM's majority from 25,000 to 5,700, will turn the poll into a referendum on Brexit, not Heathrow.

He almost achieved this with his eyecatching proposal for a second referendum on Brexit.

For all this controversy, Cable believes a second referendum on the Brexit deal, including an option to remain a member of the EU, is vital.

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

Not exact matches

Both are Tory bastions which were flagship councils under Margaret Thatcher, but factors including the EU referendum have pushed up support for Labour, which advocates a softer position on Brexit than the Conservatives.

The most immediate and tangible signal might be the June 23 referendum on the United Kingdom's potential departure from the European Union, or Brexit.

«If Brexit wins, we can count on a lot more referendums,» he says.

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.

«Brexit could embolden the increasingly popular DF to push for its own referendum project... the DF may at the very least further limit the pragmatic Venstre party's room for maneuver on EU issues,» Barroso said.

May formally notified the EU on March 29 of Britain's intention to end its 44 - year - old membership, following the shock referendum vote for Brexit last June.

One year on from the EU referendum, it is difficult to tell whether this number is shaping up to be correct: too many firms have not made public announcements, numbers have been vague and, with the terms of Brexit unclear, there are too many hypotheticals.

Trump's victory could temporarily derail stronger growth, higher rates narrative by raising expectations of a) protectionism, b) the Italian referendum following Brexit and US election as repudiation of elites and c) the Fed keeping rates on hold in December.

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).

Facebook has said it will conduct a wider investigation into whether there was Russian meddling on its platform relating to the 2016 Brexit referendum vote in the UK.

April 2018 — Zuckerberg agrees to give testimony in front of US politicians — but continues to ignore calls to appear before UK politicians to answer questions about the role of fake news on its platform and the potential use of Facebook data in the UK's Brexit referendum

[53] Recent examples illustrate how advertising tools on social media have been exploited to spread disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and the Brexit referendum: «Russian Twitter Trolls Meddled in the Brexit Vote.

Similarly, though we could see a 2017 referendum on a «Brexit» after the recent U.K. election, we also expect the U.K. to stay in the eurozone for the foreseeable future.

We did not work on the Brexit referendum in the UK.

The outcome of the referendum on British membership of the EU — which has come to be known as the Brexit debate — looks very evenly balanced.

JUNE 24, 2016 — Prices for certain futures contracts on the CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®) rose more than 60 % during the early part of the June 24 trading day, as more updates about the anticipated results of the Brexit referendum were divulged.

The CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®) rose 49.3 % on June 24, after the results of the Brexit referendum were announced.

How European markets might react to the possibility of «Brexit,» which is shorthand for «British exit from the European Union,» both in the run - up to the UK election and its aftermath, remains unclear, although given that UK assets suffered as the result of the referendum on Scottish independence became less predictable such volatility could conceivably reoccur.

Since Friday, Facebook has been on the defensive over reports that Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained data on 50 million users, information that it tried to use to influence the 2016 U.S. elections and Brexit referendum.

Britain's referendum in favor of leaving, or exiting, the European Union, the Brexit referendum, as the results are known, won with 52 percent of the vote on Thursday, June 23, stunning Europe's political establishment.

On 23 June 2016 a referendum was held in which a narrow majority of voters in the United Kingdom (nearly 52 %) voted in favour of leaving the European Union, the so - called «Brexit».

Unlike the situation in the 1930s, does Cameron really believe that his own policy might meaningfully increase the chances of war on the continent, even inadvertently (as there would certainly be no Brexit without the referendum)?

In the same way that Brexit happened, and the Scots had a referendum on staying in the UK, what would it take for California to leave the US?

Intriguingly, he thinks this hypothetical referendum would have little impact on Brexit negotiations.

The presenter has previously made it clear that she is strongly opposed to a referendum on the terms of Brexit.

Each episode focussed on a specific issue relevant to the referendum debate — sovereignty, the economy, immigration, and so on — and featured a cast of experts from across the political spectrum discussing the pros and cons of Brexit.

I have used these numbers as part of a logistic regression analysis of the positions of Conservative MPs on Brexit in order to try to explain why they have chosen their stance on the referendum.

«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.

Immediately after the referendum I argued that «While, given its royal prerogative, it is not altogether clear whether the government would have to take note of a parliamentary vote [on Brexit], it stands to reason that since the unconventional route of a popular referendum did not produce sufficient grounds to act on, the government has at least a moral duty to listen to the opinion of the body to which it is after all accountable.»

She knows there will be no better chance to hold a second referendum on independence than in the context of Brexit and the collapse of the Scottish Labour party.

Very often, as in the attack on Jo Cox during the Brexit referendum, the attackers are British citizens.

Speaker after speaker in the House of Commons debates on Article 50 declared that, although he or she voted Remain and believed Brexit was not in the national interest, the referendum vote represents the ultimate expression of democracy and therefore the «will of the people» must be obeyed.