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Opinion polling for the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum was ongoing in the months between the announcement of a referendum and the referendum polling day. Polls on the general principle of the UK's membership of the European Union were carried out for a number of years prior to the referendum.
Referendum Bill blocked: Jan 2014: European Parliament election: May 2014: 2015 general election: May 2015: Renegotiation begins: Jun 2015: Referendum Act passed: Dec 2015: Renegotiation concluded: Feb 2016: Referendum held: Jun 2016: David Cameron resigns as PM: Jul 2016: Theresa May becomes PM: Jul 2016: Article 50 judgement: Jan 2017: Brexit ...
Following the referendum in the United Kingdom on its membership of the European Union on 23 June 2016, polling companies continued to use standard questions in order to gauge public opinion on the country's relationship with the EU. Opinion polling overall showed an initial fall in support for Brexit from the referendum to late 2016, when ...
On 22 June 2016, EU diplomatic sources said that on 30 June 2016 the EU will start Turkish membership talks to agree to open a new negotiating chapter on finance and budget affairs. [107] On 30 June 2016, the EU opened a new chapter on financial and budgetary contributions which was the 16th chapter to be opened with Turkey, out of a total of 35.
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 ...
The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum took place in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on 23 June 2016. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Membership of the European Union had been a topic of political debate in the United Kingdom since the country joined the European Communities (then commonly referred to as the "Common Market" by the British ...
EU inflows were mainly flat for the 1991–2003 period, averaging close to 61,000 per year.' [9] Immediately prior to the referendum, data from the University of Oxford's The Migration Observatory stated, "between June 2015 and June 2016, immigration was consistently named as the most salient issue facing the country, peaking at 56% in ...
On 19 July, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reduced its 2017 economic growth forecast for the UK from 2.2% to 1.3%, but still expected Britain to be the second fastest growing economy in the G7 during 2016; the IMF also reduced its forecasts for world economic growth by 0.1% to 3.1% in 2016 and 3.4% in 2017, as a result of the referendum ...