Sentences with phrase «referendums on leaving»

The leader of the Front National has pledged to hold a referendum on leaving the European Union and the single currency within six months of becoming president.

Barclays analysts cut their forecast for U.K. growth this year to 1.9 % due to uncertainty over the upcoming referendum on leaving the European Union.

It is only the UK that is holding a referendum on leaving the EU.

Moreover, they suggest that there would be demands by Irish nationalists for a referendum on leaving the UK to join with pro-EU southern Ireland instead, potentially destabilising the situation in the North.

However, it is right that the Labour Party respects the outcome of the referendum on leaving the European Union.

«However, it is right that the Labour party respects the outcome of the referendum on leaving the European Union.

In one of the longest sessions in recent memory, Mr. Wylie made a number of jaw - dropping assertions, most significantly that the company's exploitation of personal data had swung the results of Britain's 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union.

From the article:... Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has blasted remain - supporters for blaming their woes on «hate figure» Vladimir Putin, who it has been recently suggested influenced the British referendum on leaving the European Union.

Russia denies interfering in foreign elections including Britain's June 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union and the 2016 U.S. presidential race.

Facebook has yet to acknowledge whether and to what degree Russian propaganda on its platform appeared during the United Kingdom's 2016 debate over Brexit, the UK's referendum on leaving the European Union, a foreign policy objective of Russia's.

Not exact matches

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 SerLeave 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 Serleave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Ahead of the referendum, analysts across Wall Street circulated research on what they thought would happen in the event of either a «Remain» or «Leave» vote.

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.

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.

Denmark, the Czech Republic and Poland could face their own referendums on EU membership if the U.K. votes to leave, experts believe.

Angel Gurria, the secretary - general of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), warned on Wednesday of the risk of other EU countries following the U.K.'s lead in holding a referendum and voting to leave.

More broadly, concerns about trade and its impact on workers figured large in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and in Britain's referendum vote to leave the European Union, a free - trade bloc.

In this steady but unglamorous growth environment, two politically - driven events dominated the quarter in the UK: the decision by the Conservative government to call a referendum on 23 June to determine whether the UK will remain in the European Union (EU) or leave, and the Budget on 16 March.

He also takes a look at the implications of the political situation in the United Kingdom where the government is facing calls to hold a second Scottish referendum as it prepares to fire the starting pistol on the process of leaving the European Union.

This data - gathering machinery can be used to shape who we vote for, or whether we vote at all, or how we make choices on big referendums, such as whether Britain leaves the European Union.

... 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.

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».

(Left to right) Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Health Simon Harris brief the media on the government's plans for a referendum on Ireland's restrictive abortion laws, following a specially convened cabinet meeting at Government Buildings in Dublin.

If the UK voters decide to leave the EU in the upcoming referendum in June of this year, it could have a significant impact on Irish agri - food exports.

Vote Leave was left fuming last night after it was announced David Cameron and Ukip leader Nigel Farage will take part in a live ITV event on ITV ahead of June's referendum.

But the truth is, if Scottish Tories vote to leave it will increase the chance of a second referendum on Scotland leaving the UK.

Wollaston famously backed Leave only to switch allegiances to Remain during the referendum, in no small part due to Brexiters» promise to spend an extra # 350m a week on the NHS.

Comments from Major on contemporary politics have, on the whole, been rare since he left office, but as pressure for a referendum on the EU grew in recent years, so did the frequency of his interventions, until he threw his full weight behind David Cameron's plan to seek a renegotiation of Britain's membership, then take that settlement to the country in an in / out vote.

Commentators have focused on the «# 350 million per week» message delivered by Vote Leave, as evidence that the referendum was held under false pretences.

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?

Some signed treaties are left in limbo and never ratified, very few become contentious issues and fail (e.g. in a referendum) but for the most part, all the head of states / governments and their representatives around the table have a parliamentary majority behind them and can get whatever they agree on through their own parliament.

of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, having been given sovereignty over whether the Kingdom leaves or remains in the European Union insist, in the interest of democracy and unity, on being given the opportunity to take an informed decision on the final outcome of the Art. 50 negotiations, as approved by parliament, through a referendum to either accept this outcome or to remain in the European Union.

And what of the forthcoming «in - out» referendum on European Union membership, which may result in the UK leaving the EU against Scotland's wishes?

A bit like when our Prime Minister took a gamble on having a referendum and then the country voted to leave the EU.

Soubry also issued a rallying call to young voters to register to vote in the referendum and to back Remain, with a dig at Leave campaigners — which she subsequently defended on Twitter.

There is now little more than a month to go until the referendum on September 18th — meaning businessman Sir Brian Souter has left it late to donate # 1 million to the SNP.

Mahmoud Abbas has been threatening to dismantle the Palestinian Authority over and over since April 2010, saying he would hand over «the keys» for the occupied West Bank to the Israeli government; while in 2011, Greek Prime Minister Papandreou threatened to leave the Eurozone and called a popular referendum on austerity measures, which implicitly questioned membership in the euro zone.

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).

The former mayor of London cited the ode from 1785 as he delivered his biggest speech yet on why Britons should vote to leave the European Union in next month's referendum.

The motives behind these donations and Labour Leave's deception were clear: to blur Labour's official line on the EU referendum.

So, there may after all well be another UK EU referendum on the horizon, but not one on leaving, but one on joining a reformed European Union.

If you stir in legislation such as the European Referendum Act 2015 which set the question to appear on the ballot paper but failed to address the legal consequences of a vote to leave, and the anomalies thrown up by the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, not least the ability to avoid a fixed - term, then the unsatisfactory basis upon which the country has gone to the polls three times in the last three years is underscored.

However a former foe from the EU referendum campaign then popped up on social media to suggest that Gove knew a thing or two about distortion by pointing to some of the more eye - catching but controversial claims made by the Leave campaign that Gove led.

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Meanwhile, Nigel Farage says Vote Leave is soft on Brexit because some in its camp support a second referendum.

The Scottish independence referendum will be on a single yes or no question to whether Scotland should become independent, leaving out a proposed second «Devolution Max» question, which would grant the Scottish government considerable further powers whilst remaining part of the United Kingdom.

He said those who voted to leave were «not stupid» but argued that Brexit was not defined before the referendum and people should be given «a new say» on the choice between May's deal and staying in the EU.