Vote Leave: After Milibrand, Ed should really know better than trying to win young voters May 28, 2016 A Conservative MP has told Ed Miliband he should stay out of the EU referendum campaign and mocked his attempts to win young support by pairing up with comedian-cum-activist Russell Brand before last year's General Election. James Cleverly said the former Labour leader was making a "cynical attempt" to woo young voters ahead of the In/Out [...]
EU referendum: Coalition of left-wing politicians including Yanis Varoufakis and John McDonnell make the case against Brexit May 28, 2016 A coalition of left-leaning politicians and commentators will unveil a new plan to stay in the European Union today in London with a day of "workshops and interactive sessions" they hope will inspire young people to vote. The group, organised under the banner, "Another Europe is Possible", includes Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell, the Green [...]
EU referendum: Ed Miliband says Brexit camp will win as he calls on young people to vote May 28, 2016 Ed Miliband has said that the fate of the EU referendum is in the hands of young people and warned that without their votes, the Leave side will win on 23 June. Speaking at a campaign event for the Britain Stronger in Europe group this morning, the former Labour leader said, “the EU referendum could be [...]
Tony Blair has said Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister would be a “very dangerous experiment” May 28, 2016 Tony Blair has warned the Labour Party and the British electorate against electing Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister in some of his most critical comments yet of the party leader. Speaking to the BBC in an interview to be broadcast this afternoon, Blair, Labour’s most electorally successful leader in its history, said a Corbyn premiership would [...]
A plague on both your houses: MPs attack EU referendum campaigns May 27, 2016 Both sides in the EU referendum campaign have faced the ire of one of Westminster's most feared MPs, head of the Treasury Select Committee (TSC) Andrew Tyrie, this afternoon. Tyrie, and the bipartisan TSC which includes campaigners on both sides of the debate, has attacked both sides for their shoddy use of statistics and blamed them [...]
Vote Leave launches £50m Euro 2016 competition May 27, 2016 A football guessing game with a £50m prize and free entry might sound like the sort of email that automatically lands in the spam folder. Even if not, most discerning folk would raise at least one eyebrow of scepticism at the prospect of guessing correctly the result of every one of the Euro 2016 matches. Whether you decided to [...]
Statistics watchdog slams Vote Leave for £350m a week claim May 27, 2016 The UK's top statistician has blasted Brexit campaigners for sticking by misleading claims that the UK sends £350m a week to the EU saying it undermines trust in official statistics. Vote Leave have plastered the £350m figure across campaign literature and their battle bus. Email signatures of officials at the organisation even declare: "We send £350m [...]
EU referendum: Here’s the “positive case” for staying in the EU, according to David Cameron May 27, 2016 When David Cameron set the date for the EU referendum back in February, he told the world you’d never catch him talking down Britain. A few months, some close opinion polls and a two slightly dodgy dossiers of Treasury analysis later, and that “positive case” for staying in the EU seems a distant memory. “Project Fear” [...]
Donald Trump could pick a fight with Opec and the Paris climate deal May 27, 2016 From oil to greener energy sources, Donald Trump is unimpressed with the depth and breadth of the energy world, taking issue with both Opec and COP 21, the climate change agreement struck in Paris last year. Trump's advisors have suggested that he examine the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' (Opec) role in the oil price slump [...]
World leaders declare Brexit a “serious risk to growth” May 27, 2016 World leaders have said the possibility of the UK voting to leave the European Union poses one of the most serious risks to growth in the global economy. At the end of the second day of the G7 meeting in Japan, the leaders of the seven big industrial nations, plus the European Union, said: “A [...]