Article: Major Facing Threat from Referendum Party Chief

Article: British Conservative MP Defects to Referendum Party
Xinhua English Newswire;  March 8, 1997 ;     380 words ... ... television report. The Referendum Party, which wants to ... would represent the Referendum Party in parliament until ... conference in Glasgow, Referendum Party leader Sir James ... defection would put Prime Minister John Major's government ...

Article: Bogeyman in Brighton: Tory MPs are scared witless by Sir James ...
The Economist (US);  October 19, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... first conference of the anti-EU Referendum Party. Such a party might be expected to ... panic? Populist parties such as the Referendum Party are by their nature unpredictable ... candidates so far selected by the Referendum Party, 87 are fighting Tory seats. Faced ...

Article: Referendum Party sues over canvassing claim
The Independent - London;  March 25, 1997 ;     693 words ...Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Party yesterday issued a libel writ ... by Charlotte Blacker, the Referendum Party agent in Putney, south-west ... newspaper, a spokesman for the Referendum Party said a claim that they had ...

Article: Only one broadcast for Referendum Party
The Independent - London;  April 30, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Television Commission, ex parte the Referendum Party; Queen's Bench Divisional Court ... and the ITC, in each allocating the Referendum Party only one five-minute televised party ... Bench Divisional Court dismissed the Referendum Party's application for judicial review ...

Article: Major's maverick Gardiner defects to Referendum ...
The Independent - London;  March 9, 1997 ;     433 words ... ... defecting to Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Party. The decision, which technically ... and will fight his Reigate seat as a Referendum Party candidate. News of the defection ... even though he will be sitting as a Referendum Party MP. He added: "I am not interested ...

Article: Euro-rebel MP defects to Referendum Party
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 9, 1997 ;     700+ words ...THE Referendum Party gained its first MP with the defection ... would contest the election for the Referendum Party in Reigate, where a Tory candidate ... Goldsmith in Glasgow, where his Referendum Party was holding its Scottish conference ...

Article: Letter: Referendum Party's Dicey quotation
The Independent - London;  June 13, 1996 ;     355 words ...Sir: The Referendum Party's attempt to give its case academic respectability is spurious ... in the introduction to the 8th edition when Dicey - like the Referendum Party - thought a referendum might get support for his views on an ...