Sentences with phrase «strong leave vote»

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Sterling saw some strong buying on international currency markets Tuesday, reaching its highest level since the country voted to leave the European Union in June 2016.

Still, a management shakeup in June left Lansing the sole head of the studio with promises of a bigger budget and more creative freedom, a strong vote of confidence from Viacom chief Sumner Redstone.

The pointlessness of positioning a portfolio for a particular news event couldn't be clearer than it is in the strong stock market performance following the June 23 referendum vote in Britain to leave the European Union.

However, with cultural angst high on the agenda, dissatisfaction with the incumbent government on the rise and a Eurosceptic campaign that is more sophisticated than some realise, it does appear likely that whatever the result, the Leave vote will be fairly strong.

To overcome this problem we have, on behalf of the BBC, been beavering away at establishing which local authorities appear to be more likely to record a relatively strong vote for Remain, which are the ones where Leave can be expected to do relatively well, and which are the council areas where the two sides could be expected to be equally matched.

«Last summer, after the country voted to leave the European Union, Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership, and since I became prime minister the government has delivered precisely that.

While the North and Midlands were stronger for Leave than the South of England, there were cities in the South, such as Plymouth, Southampton and Swindon, that voted Leave.

While it is true that the Leave vote was strongest in the English countryside, many of the big cities voted Leave, including Birmingham, Sheffield, Bradford, Sunderland, Bolton, Newcastle, and Stoke.

Elsewhere in England & Wales where the Leave vote was strong, the Conservatives are either extending their lead over Labour or closing the gap on Labour.

The area of the capital with the strongest Conservative vote, Edinburgh Pentlands was held by the late David McLetchie until 2011 when Gordon MacDonald won the seat for the SNP leaping from third place in 2007, leaving the Conservatives over 1000 votes behind.

The executive director of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign and son of Labour grandee Jack Straw had suggested that European Union citizens living in the UK could be sent back to the country they were born in should Britain vote to leave on June 23.

Most people in our country, regardless of whether they voted leave of remain want better jobs, more investment, stronger rights and greater equality.

Libous (R - Binghamton) insists the coalition remains «very strong» despite criticism from the left that the Independent Democratic Conference can't get bills pertaining to public campaign financing or strengthening of abortion rights to the floor for a vote.

Having spent the first part of the campaign seeing the pro-Remain message they badly need voters to hear — that Brexit represents a risk the NHS can't afford to take, that a Leave vote would trigger further austerity — drowned out by Conservative in - fighting, Britain Stronger In Europe might decide, as David Lloyd George once quipped, that «a change of nuisance is as good as holiday».

Gove's piece in The Times is also the strongest Vote Leave has been so far on the big question of immigration - one of Nigel Farage's two «fundamental problems» with the Leave campaign yesterday).

There have been heated debates among New York progressives about whether to vote for the WFP which has been heavily criticized in some circles for endorsing Cuomo for a second time, or to opt for Hawkins who has run a stronger - than - expected campaign on an unabashedly left - wing platform.

But in the latest unlikely cross-party collaboration coordinated by the Stronger In campaign, the chancellor and his predecessor accused Vote Leave of «making it up as you go along».

In February 2017, the Electoral Commission launched an investigation into referendum spending by Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe.

The two «designated» referendum campaigns (Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe) had an official spending limit of # 7m each.

As part of our profiles on key constituencies, Craig Johnson looks at the left - of - centre parties battling it out in the strong Remain - voting seat of Bristol West.

«Those who will be hit hardest by the economic shock associated with the vote to leave the EU need a strong opposition, as do those communities who fear rising levels of intolerance, hatred and division.

Investigations have begun into the official lead campaigns on both sides, Britain Stronger in Europe and Vote Leave, which each registered total expenditures of more than # 6.7 m, the commission said.

Labour should take a majority of LD votes as there is no other strong Left wing party standing.

Polling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said the Tories were performing relatively well in areas with a substantial Leave vote in the 2016 referendum, where they are picking up votes from UKIP, which did not stand candidates in many areas, while Labour were performing better in places where the Remain vote was stronger and with a higher proportion of younger voters.

I always thought Steve Webb would be one of the few Lib Dem MPs left whatever happened to the party nationally TBH as he seemed to have quite a strong personal vote here (similar to Norman Baker in Lewes), but alas despite his decrease being below the national average he couldn't hold on.

The 670 - page No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was passed with strong bipartisan backing by the House of Representatives on December 13, 2001 by a vote of 381 - 41, and by the Senate on December 18, 2001 by a vote of 87 - 10.

The argument goes that centre - left parties typically vote for stronger climate action.

That last phrase is so strong that some countries wanted it left out, but according to Steffan Zinger of WWF, they were voted down.

By this vote, the law society «has sent a strong message that the train of full and total commitment to improving access to justice has left the station and that it will not stop until all Canadian law societies have embarked upon the journey,» said one official.

As such, the answers are provided verbatim from Britain Stronger in Europe and Vote Leave and are combined for the first time in this report.

Speaking on Monday, Ms Allen said no communication had been obtained proving that Vote Leave ordered BeLeave to pass money to AIQ, but there was a «strong inference» that this had happened.

Tamsin Allen, from Bindmans, told a press conference «that there is a strong suspicion that the campaigns were very closely linked and co-ordinated, in which case it may be that Vote Leave spent huge sums unlawfully and its declaration of expenses is incorrect».