Tag: EU referendum

• Thursday, February 28th 2019 - 07:15 UTC

  Jeremy Corbyn tells Parliament Labour will support another EU referendum

  

  Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will back another EU referendum after his alternative Brexit plan was again defeated in the Commons. But the Labour leader said he will also continue to push for “other available options” including a general election.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2018 - 15:21 UTC

  Data scientist Christopher Wylie: “The Brexit would not have happened without Cambridge Analytica”

  

  Christopher Wylie's specialty was to predict fashion trends before starting work at 17 for a Canadian politician, at 18 he participated in Obama's campaign to learn about his data management and later he helped to found Cambridge Analytica (CA), the consultant accused of misuse of data of about 50 million users of Facebook. However, Wylie said he feels regretful.

• Monday, January 11th 2016 - 11:42 UTC

  PM Cameron hopeful of reaching a deal on EU referendum with Brussels in February

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron says he is “hopeful” of reaching a deal with European leaders in February that will allow him to hold the UK's EU referendum. The prime minister said the in-out vote “would follow” if agreement was reached on his reforms at next month's summit. He also said he would stay on as PM even if he ended up on the losing side.

• Wednesday, May 15th 2013 - 22:21 UTC

  UK parliament rejects EU referendum amendment despite 114 Tories votes

  

  A total of 114 Conservative MPs have backed an amendment to the Queen's Speech “expressing regret” an EU referendum bill was not part of the government's agenda for the year ahead. Euro-sceptic Tories forced the vote as part of efforts to make Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge for a poll in 2017 binding.