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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 ...
The Vote Leave campaign used a large red battle bus in the lead up to the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.A decal on the side of the bus made the false claim and following pledge that "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead", [1] accompanied with the slogan "Let's take back control". [2]
The Act legislated for a referendum to be held in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar on whether to remain a member of the EU, to be conducted by the Electoral Commission and overseen by an appointed "Chief Counting Officer" (CCO) and a "deputy chief counting officer" (DCCO) who declared the final result for the United Kingdom. By regulation the ...
[222] [223] However, Jolyon Maugham QC, a barrister specialising in tax law, argued that a second referendum on EU membership could be triggered by one of two scenarios: following a snap general election won by one or more parties standing on a remain platform, or as a result of parliament deciding that circumstances had changed significantly ...
Following the referendum of 23 June 2016, in which the electorate of the United Kingdom voted by 17,410,742 to 16,141,241 to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 occurred on 29 March 2017. This set a deadline for leaving the EU of 29 March 2019 which was later extended to 31 October 2019. [1]
Referendum posters for both the Leave and Remain votes in Pimlico, London. Campaigning in the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum began unofficially on 20 February 2016 when Prime Minister David Cameron formally announced under the terms of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 that a referendum would be held on the issue of ...
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 Parliament by-elections. Clacton; Heywood and Middleton; Rochester and Strood; 2015 UK general election; 2015–16 EU ...
Michael Dougan is Professor of European Law and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law, at the University of Liverpool. [1] He came to the attention of social media users in the United Kingdom when a video of one of his lectures was uploaded to YouTube and other social media platforms, in which he dissected the academic validity and honesty of the legal arguments presented by those advocating the United ...