Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
British Influence, formally the Centre for British Influence Through Europe, was an independent, cross-party, pro-single market foreign affairs think tank founded in 2012 in the United Kingdom arguing that EU membership improves the UK's prosperity, security and society through, respectively, the European Single Market, co-operation on tackling organised crime and terrorism and through the ...
Campaign Against Arms Trade; Campaign Against Censorship; Campaign for Freedom of Information; Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom; Campaign to Bring Back British Rail; Celtic League; Charter 88 (merged with the New Politics Network to form Unlock Democracy in 2007) Electoral Reform Society; English ...
The Remain Campaign was led by Britain Stronger in Europe, a cross-party lobbying group that was declared as the official "Remain" campaign for the referendum by the Electoral Commission. However, there were a number of other groups that were involved in leading more specialist campaigns.
UK parliamentary election results, 1950–2024 UK general elections by popular vote (in millions, since 1945). United Kingdom general elections are held following a dissolution of Parliament. All the members of Parliament (MPs) forming the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are elected.
Pages in category "Political campaigns in the United Kingdom" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Michael Dougan, Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the University of Liverpool and a constitutional lawyer, described the Leave campaign as "one of the most dishonest political campaigns this country [the UK] has ever seen", for using arguments based on constitutional law that he said were readily demonstrable as false ...
However, in recent times membership has declined and campaign costs have grown. The Green Party is the only major political party in the UK which receives the majority of its funding through membership fees and these are what cover the running costs of the organisation. Membership subs have become a more significant source in income for both ...
The campaign was also supported by a number of prominent politicians; including outgoing Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who became a key figurehead for the Vote Leave campaign. A number of Vote Leave principals, including Douglas Carswell, Michael Gove, Bernard Jenkin and Anne-Marie Trevelyan , were also members of the influential IPSA ...