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The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 to ask the electorate whether the country should continue to ...
It achieved third place in the UK during the 2004 European elections, second place in the 2009 European elections and first place in the 2014 European elections, with 27.5% of the total vote. This was the first time since the 1910 general election that any party other than the Labour or Conservative parties had taken the largest share of the ...
2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum (East of England) Choice Votes % Leave the European Union: 1,880,367: 56.48: Remain a member of the European Union: 1,448,616 43.52 Valid votes 3,328,983 99.93 Invalid or blank votes 2,329 0.07 Total votes: 3,331,312: 100.00: Registered voters/turnout 4,398,796 75.73 Source: Electoral ...
Javier Solana, former Secretary-General of NATO (1995–99) and former Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union (1999–2009) [109] Donald Tusk, President of the European Council. [98] Yanis Varoufakis former Minister of Finance of Greece [118] Guy Verhofstadt MEP, chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group [98]
Consistent with that notion, research suggests that areas that saw significant influx of migration from Eastern Europe following the accession of 12 mainly Eastern European countries to the European Union in 2004 saw significant growth in support for the UK Independence Party and more likely to vote to leave the European Union. [17]
European Union (Amendment) Act 2008; European Union Act 2011; UK opt-outs from EU legislation; 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 ...
Issues that had been identified as important by voters who were likely to vote remain included the impact on Britain's economy (40%), the number of immigrants coming into Britain (15%), Britain's ability to trade with countries in the European Union (12%), the impact on British jobs (11%), the impact on the rights of British workers (10% ...
The 2015–2016 United Kingdom renegotiation of European Union membership was an unimplemented non-binding package of changes to the United Kingdom's terms of its European Union (EU) membership as a member state and changes to EU rules which were first proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron in January 2013, with negotiations beginning in the ...