Sentences with phrase «vote referendum campaign»

Not exact matches

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.

Last year, the governing coalition broke its campaign promise to hold a referendum on Iceland joining the European Union, prompting thousands of Icelanders to protest and sign petitions demanding a parliamentary vote.

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.

Leaders of the campaign stress that this wouldn't be «a second referendum,» or, in other words, a mere repeat of the June 2016 vote.

The Church has published a «Prayer for the EU referendum campaign» on its website that can be used by churches and individuals ahead of the vote on June 23, the church said.

Many have criticised Corbyn for running a half - hearted campaign for Britain to stay in the EU leading up to Thursday's referendum, in which the UK shocked the world by voting to leave.

But if the vote happens, the best case would be the referendum campaign leads to some soul searching on both sides.

Tsipras is campaigning for a no vote in the referendum on Sunday, which is officially on whether to accept a tough earlier bailout offer, to impress on EU negotiators that spiralling poverty and a collapse in everyday business activity across Greece has meant further austerity should be ruled out of any new rescue package.

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).

Live Greek referendum: Alexis Tsipras hails victory for No campaign - live updatesWith most votes counted, Greece has given a resounding No to the proposals from its creditorsRead more

A second whistleblower from the firm also emerged at a parliamentary hearing in April claiming Britons» personal data may have been misused by a pro-Brexit campaign ahead of the 2016 referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union.

While both parties have denied explicit wrongdoing, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are facing whistleblower claims this data was used to support Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign, with the latter firm also being said to have yielded influence over other democratic votes including the EU referendum.

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.

The BTTC is inviting the media and supporters of the «Yes» vote in Metro Vancouver's upcoming transit and transportation referendum to a campaign event:

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.

Given this variation in party fortunes, a particularly bad argument in the recent referendum campaign was that if you wanted to avoid Conservative government you should vote for independence.

As both sides of the Scottish independence campaign use the day before the referendum to push for votes,... More

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.

Of course, all of this can only strengthen the hand of those of us who will be campaigning for a yes vote in the referendum on further powers in Wales.

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

He called on Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum but campaigned passionately for a Remain vote, to quit «immediately».

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.

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

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.

Such woolliness is characteristic of the current campaign for a «People's Vote» (we're no longer allowed to call it a second referendum).

Former Conservative chairman Grant Shapps has announced he will vote for the UK to remain in the European Union — while taking a swipe at the tone of both referendum campaigns.

The ace political number cruncher Robert (now Lord) Hayward tells me: «Unless something substantial changes in the remaining days of the Euro referendum campaign, the balance of probability is that the nation will vote to leave.»

In March 2017, the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared that the Turkish minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was not welcome to campaign among eligible Turkish voters in The Netherlands for a yes vote in the Turkish constitutional referendum, 2017.

The referendum result wasn't a defeat for the yes campaign or a victory for the no campaign, it was the rejection of alternative vote.

Matthew Elliott is Chief Executive of Vote Leave, which is campaigning for a «leave» vote in the forthcoming EU referenVote Leave, which is campaigning for a «leave» vote in the forthcoming EU referenvote in the forthcoming EU referendum.

Benedict Cumberbatch is to play Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings in a new television drama about the Brexit referendum.

Though Labour remained officially neutral, he in a personal capacity supported the ultimately unsuccessful «Yes to AV» campaign in the Alternative Vote referendum on 5 May 2011, saying that it would benefit Britain's «progressive majority».

The Yes to Fairer Votes campaign has announced the first appointments to the team that will lead the call for a «Yes» vote on the Alternative Vote (AV) in next year's referenvote on the Alternative Vote (AV) in next year's referenVote (AV) in next year's referendum.

The promise of an In / Out referendum under a Conservative Government late in the next Parliament will draw much of the poison that has plagued the party over the EU issue since Margaret Thatcher's Bruges speech - by making it clear to those MPs and party members opposed to EU membership that in such circumstances they will have an opportunity to campaign for a No vote.

The PLP voted «no confidence» in its leader by 172 votes to 40 in June, following Corbyn's performance in the EU referendum campaign.

In 1997, the last time New Yorkers voted on a constitutional convention referendum, opponents poured more than $ 750,000 into an advertising and direct mail campaign in the two weeks before voters went to the polls.

[111][112] In May 2016, Miliband appeared on the BBC's Question Time, arguing in favour of remain in the UK's EU referendum [113] and subsequently campaigned for a Remain vote.

The Channel 4... Benedict Cumberbatch is to play Vote Leave campaign director Dominic Cummings in a new television drama about the Brexit referendum.

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.

Glass has been taking a prominent role in Labour's campaign for a Remain vote in the EU referendum.

Cameron's referendum promise may well not prevent the Conservatives from breaking up, but, if Labour wins the next election, the Tories will probably campaign for a «no» vote anyway.

The referendum may even pass, although with the government setting the question and campaigning for a «no» vote, that is also questionable.

From the «betrayal» of the Lib Dems over the Jeremy Hunt vote, when Clegg's party abstained and won the enmity of vast swathes of the Tory party, or the vicious tactics of the «no» campaign in the electoral reform referendum which disgusted Lib Dems and led to open rowing at Cabinet, the «calm and businesslike» relationship between the two parties has become a myth anywhere below the most senior levels.

But we campaigned hard and successfully to achieve an historic yes vote in the Welsh powers referendum in March.

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.

Of course, Sturgeon would like to hold a second referendum and to be the politician who led the Yes campaign to victory but she is not reckless; the First Minister wants to see support for independence polling at at least 60 per cent - for a substantial period of time - before gambling on another vote.

The Electoral Commission is investigating allegations regarding spending by the Vote Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum.

It can be argued that Cameron has double - crossed Clegg on democratic reform before — taking a more active role in the no campaign in the alternative vote referendum last year than he had promised in private.

The party campaigned for a Remain vote in the referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union in June 2016.