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Former European Commission president says then-PM asked him not to intervene in referendum debate.
Steve Baker, a “Brexit spartan” who voted against Theresa May’s deal with the EU on all three occasions, has said the vote to leave the EU should have required a supermajority of 60 per cent.
A report by Bloomberg raises questions about what the arch-Brexiteer knew and when, although he denies any wrongdoing.
People and Power investigates the curious questions about the referendum. Was the original vote to leave the EU tainted?
So, here’s THE key question: Who made the decision for the UK to leave the EU? It wasn’t the referendum. The referendum, as agreed by Parliament, was advisory only and not legally capable of making any decision. This was confirmed by the Supreme Court, who also ruled that the decision to leave the EU had to be taken by Parliament.
Nations can recover from bad elections far more easily than from bad referendums.
Letter signed by more than 300 prominent historians says voters can ‘stiffen cohesion of our continent in a dangerous world’.
Having, by his own admission, completely failed to understand the horrors that the EU referendum would unleash on the politics of the United Kingdom, it is partly grimly ironic, but mainly just grim, that self-described Brexit hardman Steve Baker is now bringing to bear his unique brand of absolutely no wisdom whatsoever to the political sensitivities of Northern Ireland.
Use of Twitter ‘bots’ and ‘trolls’ evidence of Kremlin attempts to influence vote, parliamentary report finds.
A long-awaited report on Russia's activities in the UK has concluded that the British government "took its eye off the ball" and failed to respond to Moscow's threat.
British voters were not fully informed on the implications of Brexit during the referendum in 2016, a European Parliament report has concluded.
Twitter bots may have altered the outcome of two of the world’s most consequential elections in recent years, according to an economic study.
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood says both his party and Labour are being dishonest over the disaster of Brexit.
Report warns ‘democracy is at risk’ and turns fire on the prime minister for failure to probe effect on referendum result.
Inviting a largely uninformed public to make a judgement on something as unfathomably complex as EU membership was akin to asking a six-year-old to perform brain surgery – with a crayon.
Private polls—and a timely ‘concession’ from the face of Leave—allowed the funds to make millions off the pound’s collapse.
These leaflets were collected jointly by the British Library and LSE Library. They form part of a wider set of archives available at LSE Library that document the long and complex relationship between Britain and the European Union.
Millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks eagerly pursued a multibillion-pound gold deal brought to him by a Russian oligarch with links to the Kremlin just months before the EU referendum, Channel 4 News can reveal.
With 400 national binding referendums over the last 50 years the Swiss have learned, sometimes the hard way, what works and what does not.
The result of a nationwide referendum has been overturned for the first time in modern Switzerland's history.