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In July 2017 David Jones, Minister of State for Exiting the European Union, told the Commons he expected the parliamentary vote on the Brexit deal with the EU to happen "before the European Parliament debates and votes on the final agreement." Asked to clarify what would happen if MPs and members of the House of Lords decide they don't like the ...
Constituencies which the Brexit Party contested at the election. In April 2019, party leader Nigel Farage said the Brexit Party intended to stand candidates at the next general election. [3] The same month, he promised not to stand candidates against the 28 Eurosceptic Conservative MPs who opposed the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Parliament. [4]
Anderson only served as MEP from 28 January until the Brexit date on 31 January, a total of 4 days. Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Forman, Lucy Harris and John Longworth left the Brexit Party and joined the Conservatives. Louis Stedman-Bryce and Andrew England Kerr changed their affiliation from the Brexit Party to be independent.
Redfield and Wilton Strategies published polls of the forty-two constituencies in southern England which voted Conservative in the last three general elections, where more than a quarter of adults have degrees, where more than 42.5% of voters are estimated to have voted to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum, and where the ...
Most of the polling companies listed are members of the British Polling Council (BPC) and abide by its disclosure rules. The dates of these opinion polls range from the previous general election on 4 July 2024 to the present. The next general election must be held no later than 15 August 2029 under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act ...
Euroscepticism in the UK. UK opinion polling on EU membership; Campaigns for a referendum People's Pledge; Labour for a Referendum; Bloomberg speech; In or Out; 2013–14 EU (Referendum) Bill (unsuccessful) 2014 European Parliament election; 2014 UK Parliament by-elections. Clacton; Heywood and Middleton; Rochester and Strood; 2015 UK general ...
For the 2019 general election, the Brexit Party (the former name of Reform UK) did not stand candidates in seats where the Conservative party won in 2017. [114] Leader Richard Tice ruled out a similar arrangement for this election, [115] and stated his party's intention to stand in 630 seats. [116]
The inaugural holder was David Davis MP, [4] a longtime Eurosceptic who campaigned for the UK to leave the EU. [9] Davis is a former chairman of the Conservative Party who served in the government of John Major as Minister of State for Europe (1994–97) and in the Shadow Cabinet of David Cameron as shadow home secretary .