Tag: EU referendum

A cross-party campaign that will lead the fight for Britain to remain in the European Union ahead of a referendum due by 2017 is to launch on Monday. The “Britain Stronger in Europe” campaign will be led by businessman Stuart

After months of waiting, the British government has finally revealed its main demands in its attempt to renegotiate the country’s European Union (EU) membership, and eurosceptics are unlikely to be happy. The Sunday Telegraph states that the government has four

Baron Rose of Monewden, the former Chief Executive Officer of Marks and Spencer, is due to lead the establishment campaign to remain inside the European Union, reports the Times.  Lord Stuart Rose, a former administrative assistant at the BBC who

The Independent newspaper – owned by Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev and edited by the former UK government employee Amol Rajan – has urged the pro European Union camp to smear Eurosceptics as “far right xenophobes” in a desperate bid to

For the first time in 25 years, the French President and German Chancellor, now Hollande and Merkel, came to address the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The feeling was very different to those days when Kohl and Mitterand, monsters that they

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain needs to quit the European Union to reclaim its sovereignty, a group of business leaders and lawmakers said on Thursday, launching a campaign to persuade Britons to vote to leave the bloc at an upcoming referendum.

Prime Minister David Cameron said his renegotiation of Britain’s ties with the European Union (EU) was “bloody hard work” but that he would not be rushed into naming a date for a referendum on membership, The Sunday Telegraph reported. On

UK Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the European Parliament Steven Woolfe has been banned from speaking at an event at the European Union-funded Skainos Centre in Northern Ireland. The venue told the MEP that it did not allow political meetings

A remarkable though virtually uncommented-upon piece of political propaganda was issued in late July this year. Universities for Europe and Universities UK, who represent 133 higher education institutions, came out with clear, unequivocal backing for the UK to vote to

On May 30th I wrote a response to former UK Independence Party (UKIP) treasurer Stuart Wheeler who claimed that the party’s leader, Nigel Farage, could not lead the EU referendum campaign. And obviously, me being totally right, I can’t believe we’re still

BRUSSELS, Belgium – Do you remember the guffaws from the media classes when, during the last election campaign, UKIP spokesmen took to the stage to claim that the European Union and its agents of “unity” were perverting children’s minds with

The lifeblood of any economy are the small to medium sized enterprises (SME’s) spurred on by entrepreneurship and the drive for profit. So why does the EU raise barriers to entry for our small businesses struggling to get a foothold? Just

The British taxpayer will be landed with an additional bill for our membership of the European Union (EU) next year, as MEPs voted to increase their budget by billions, defying national governments and their electorates who have voted for fiscal

BRUSSELS, Belgium – UKIP leader Nigel Farage spoke today at the Politico.eu Playbook Breakfast in Brussels, where he weighed in on the ongoing debate over who should run the ‘Leave’ group in the upcoming EU referendum campaign.  His comments come

The Tory establishment are slapping themselves on the back again this morning, following an article by Conservative Party Home editor Mark Wallace.  I should declare an interest: Mark got me a job once at the Tax Payers’ Alliance. I owe

BRIGHTON, United Kingdom – The president of the Party of European Socialists (PES) had plenty to say at a meeting dedicated to keeping Britain in the European Union (EU) this morning, telling delegates to scare voters into wanting to stay

For the first time this year, more people have said they want to leave the European Union (EU) than remain a member, a poll has revealed. However, when asked how they would vote should the Prime Minister say he has protected

A Dutch website said on Sunday it had garnered enough signatures to force the Netherlands to hold a non-binding referendum on the EU’s association agreement with Ukraine, in a move meant to signal popular dissatisfaction with Dutch European policy. GeenStijl,

DONCASTER, United Kingdom – It is perhaps an awkward thing for me to write given my role in supporting Nigel Farage at the last general election, but it is unavoidable given the major flash points that have occurred at UKIP’s

DONCASTER, United Kingdom – No other party leader could have made the entrance Nigel Farage did at UKIP conference today. The crowd truly went wild when the party leader made his way to stage while “The Final Countdown” blasted from the

DONCASTER, United Kingdom – Britain’s major anti-European Union forces are uniting behind the £1 million UKIP donor Arron Banks, following months of debates, discussions, and some heated rhetoric over who should run the “Out” campaign at the upcoming British referendum.

The strategists behind the Conservative Party’s social media campaign have been hired by Britain’s main pro—EU campaign ahead of the referendum on British membership of the EU. Tom Edmonds and Craig Elder were hailed as the Tories’ “secret weapon,” reaching

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage hosts his third “Say No to EU” meeting live from the Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex this evening, with the speech due to begin around 7:30pm. The entire event will be livestreamed below, and over

The EU-owned European Investment Bank (EIB) today announced that it is handing Oxford University a £200 million loan – its largest ever single loan to a European university. The money will be spent on new facilities and on refurbishing existing