Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
Following David Cameron's announcement of an EU referendum, in July 2013 the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) announced the "Brexit Prize", a competition to find the best plan for a UK exit from the European Union, and declared that a departure was a "real possibility" following the 2015 general election. [237]
General elections in the United Kingdom are organised using first-past-the-post voting. The Conservative Party, which won a majority at the 2019 general election, included pledges in its manifesto to remove the 15-year limit on voting for British citizens living abroad, and to introduce a voter identification requirement in Great Britain. [86]
On both sides of the pond, this year’s elections represented some degree of a win for the right. In the US, Republicans swept the Executive, Congress and Senate. In the UK, the Conservatives ...
Britain's five-week election campaign officially began Wednesday, when Parliament was dissolved ahead of the Dec. 12 vote. Brexit day was supposed to be Oct. 31, but with Britain's politicians ...
At the last general election in 2019, Farage's party decided not to contest seats held by the Conservatives, then led by Boris Johnson, to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.
Part of a series of articles on Brexit Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union Glossary of terms Background European Communities Act 1975 EC membership referendum UK rebate Bruges speech No. No. No. Maastricht Rebels Black Wednesday European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 European Union Act 2011 UK opt-outs from EU legislation Euroscepticism in the UK UK opinion polling on EU ...
Bold denotes that either the majority of votes went in favour of Brexit or the percentage of votes was enough to retain the election deposit (5%). *denotes that the candidate was originally selected as a Brexit Party prospective parliamentary candidate in a Conservative seat but after those candidates were pulled, they eventually stood as independent candidates.