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A constituent accused former Edinburgh council leader Cammy Day of sending unsolicited nude pictures in March 2023. Progress in LGBT rights 'fragile' - Kezia Dugdale 22 Dec 2024 at 12:30pm The ex-Scottish Labour leader was speaking 10 years on from the Holyrood parliament's decision to allow ...
Ipsos's recent poll for the Liberal Democrats shows that over half of British adults think there should be a referendum on Britain's membership with Europe (54%), while a quarter disagree (27%). 3 March 2008 Europe European UnionIpsos...
aBut the problem has not seemed so great since the referendum on March 1, 1979 on local parliaments in Scotland. The other is the problem of Northern Ireland, which can be divided into two. The first is its ownership. The Republic of Ireland and some people in Northern Ireland consider th...
Alan Renwick, an academic at UCL, said that citizens’ assemblies could be held before future referendums, “to consider the issues and work out what the options should be — as was done successfully before Ireland’s recent referendum on abortion”. ...
20 March 2013 – No favours for Scotland on energy, warns UK energy minister? UK energy secretary Ed Davey says an independent Scotland would face "serious competition" with Ireland and Norway to supply the UK with the cheapest form of renewable energy. 12 June 2013 – Scotland increases incen...
(2017, March 15). Hard Border Between Northern Ireland and Republic Ruled Out. The Scotsman, [online]. Available at http://www.scotsman.com/news/hard-border-between-northern-ireland-and-republic-ruled-out-1-4392773. Accessed 19 Mar 2017. McLean, I. (2005, January). Financing the Union:...
Ireland backstop plan, which sought to preserve the spirit of theGood Friday Agreementby maintaining an open border between Northern Ireland and EU member Ireland after Brexit. The backstop plan called for a legally binding customs arrangement between the EU and Northern Ireland to go into effect ...
Also known as: Britain, Great Britain, U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandWritten by Ralph Charles Atkins, Ulric M. Spencer•All Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Dec 31, 2024 • Article History ...