Gina Miller – leader of the True & Fair Party, successful businesswoman and well renowned democracy campaigner – has called for the UK to rejoin the European Union. The leader of the True & Fair Party made these remarks at an event attended by hundreds of people in central London earlier this week. Speaking at […]
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Gina Miller, in her party political broadcast, said that it is time to admit that “Brexit has been a major economic and political disaster for the United Kingdom”. Her remarks have come on the seventh anniversary of the Brexit referendum, which Brexiteers are celebrating as an independence day from the European Union. Gina Miller, a […]
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*Support NewsLeaf.com by becoming a Patron today by clicking here.* The New European, a newspaper that was founded in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, is celebrating its fourth birthday. The weekly pro-European publication, which was launched by Matt Kelly on 4 July 2016, is publishing its 202nd issue this week. The newspaper’s continuing success […]
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Image by Elionas2 from Pixabay ____________________________________________________________________________ *Support NewsLeaf.com from as little as £1 via PayPal by clicking here. In direct contrast with government ministers, a great majority of the British public wants the Brexit transition period to be extended. The Brexit transition period is currently due to end on 31 December of this year. However, the effort and […]
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Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Londoners have welcomed mayor Sadiq Khan’s and Guy Verhofstadt MEP’s proposal of an ‘associate EU citizenship’ for British citizens who would like to continue using their right to freedom of movement after the transition period comes to end. The proposal is gaining praise from people outside of London as well, who say […]
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With a majority of just nine votes, Ursula von der Leyen has been elected as the European Union’s Commission President. The winner was required to attain at least 374 votes, but Mrs Ursula von der Leyen managed to attain a total of 383 votes. Her successful election now means that she will replace Jean-Claude Juncker. […]
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The Labour Party fully supports a People’s Vote and would support Remaining in the EU in a public vote. After three years of relative ambivalence, Mr Corbyn expressed unequivocal support for a People’s Vote on the Prime Minister’s deal and also on the option of a possible ‘No Deal’. If a referendum were to happen […]
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Figures released by the Kantar polling organisation and the European Parliament website suggest that turnout in this year’s European elections is up. According to the latest figures, turnout across the European Union was 50.82%. This represents an increase of 8.21% when compared to the turnout at the 2014 European Parliament elections which was 42.61%. The […]
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Multiple reports and testimonies on social media suggest that EU citizens living in the UK were ‘denied the right to vote’ despite having the correct documentation. Many EU citizens stated that they were prevented from voting even though they had polling cards outlining their eligibility to vote. Most of the individual accounts of being denied […]
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The issue of a second referendum is ground well-trodden, however, the recent collapse of cross-party Brexit talks and the bad faith which continues to dominate the debate over a confirmatory vote makes it impossible not to correct the record. Firstly, I must challenge the language commonly used by Brexiteers. The ‘People’s Vote’ or ‘Confirmatory Vote’ […]
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