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        <title><![CDATA[Matt Qvortrup - Bloomberg View Contributor]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Matt Qvortrup is a professor of political science and international relations at Coventry University. His most recent book is "Referendums and Ethnic Conflict."]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cameron Needs to Keep Calm and Carry On]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Britain's EU advocates should resist scare tactics. Voters in referendums tend to reject the side that appeals to fear.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 16:07:29 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 30:  Prime Minister David Cameron makes a joint appearance with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan as they launch the Britain Stronger in Europe guarantee card at Roehampton University on May 20, 2016 in London, United Kingdom. The &quot;guarantee card&quot; lists five pledges should Britain remain in the EU, including the protection of workers&apos; rights, full access to the single market and stability for Britain. U.K voters go to the polls on June 23 to vote in a referendum on the continued membership of the UK in the European Union. (Photo by Yui Mok - WPA Pool/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[With Britain's EU Referendum, Timing is Everything]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Lower turnout will help avert a British exit.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:53:38 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Conservative MP, Philip Hollobone, addresses the audience during the launch of the &quot;Grassroots Out&quot;, a new cross-party group that will campaign for the UK to leave the European Union, in the Kettering Conference Centre in Kettering, north of London, on January 23, 2016. An in-or-out referendum on Britain&apos;s membership of the bloc will be held by the end of 2017, with British Prime Minister David Cameron hoping to strike a deal on renegotiating Britain&apos;s ties, before campaigning to stay in the union.  AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL / AFP / LEON NEAL        (Photo credit should read LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cameron's Bold Move Will Help Avert Brexit]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Cameron, like Harold Wilson in the 1970s, is a pragmatist.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:03:56 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - DECEMBER 18:  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron speaks to the media after The European Council Meeting In Brussels held at the Justus Lipsius Building on December 18, 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.  European leaders are meeting to discuss David Camerons proposed EU reforms, as well as focussing on the migrant crisis, the fight against terrorism and climate change.  (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Greeks Will Vote 'Yes' to Europe]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Europeans tend to stick together when tested.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:47:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>ATHENS, GREECE - JUNE 30: A man walks past anti-EU graffiti on June 30, 2015 in Athens, Greece. Greek voters will decide in a referendum next Sunday on whether their government should accept an economic reform package put forth by Greece&apos;s creditors. Greece has imposed capital controls with the banks being closed until the referendum and a daily limit of 60 euros has been placed on cash withdrawals from ATMs. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Happy Political Precedent for Cameron]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Harold Wilson's narrow 1974 victory made way for EU membership.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 17:17:38 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>British Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)  at a meeting during the UK general election campaign, 26th February 1974. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[UKIP Victory Makes Britain a Lot Like Europe]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The anti-EU UK Independence Party's victory Thursday in winning a first seat in Britain's parliament paradoxically makes the UK more like the rest of Europe.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:05:35 GMT</pubDate>
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