Sentences with phrase «conservative euroscepticism»

The first problem with the reshuffle in the European context is the removal of checks and balances that, until now, have kept Conservative Euroscepticism on a relatively tight rein.

Although the party originallyfocused around Conservative euroscepticism rather than immigration, relative to supporters of other parties UKIP sympathisers are much more likely to see immigration as the single most important issue facing the country (see figure 1).

For a start, a nationalist ideology appears to be central to much Conservative Euroscepticism.

Given the subsequent development of Conservative euroscepticism, it's not hard to see why that decision now weighs so heavily on Major's mind.

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Forster, A. (2002) Euroscepticism in contemporary British politics: opposition to Europe in the British Conservative and Labour parties since 1945 (London: Routledge)

Firstly, nationalism is the most likely cause of the relationship between social conservatism and Euroscepticism, and research in political science and political psychology have established a link between social conservative and nationalist attitudes.

The decision of David Cameron to give in to such demands was thus another attempt to defuse the mobilisation of hard Euroscepticism within the Conservative party and to paper over intra-party divisions on Europe at least until after the 2015 general elections.

Moreover, this return to national rhetoric, reinforced by the strength of conservative forces, has to be put into historical perspective: far from being a new phenomenon, euroscepticism has been mounting among European citizens for almost three decades.

Britain is «sleepwalking» towards an exit from the European Union because of growing euroscepticism in the Conservative party, Ed Miliband has warned.

The value of his diaries after 1992 is that they give an insight into one strand of parliamentary euroscepticism, but their downside is that, all too often, we get bogged down with the personality and policy clashes of what now appear to be obscure Conservative parliamentarians, and other major political issues, such as the economy, merely become noises off.

Offering an in - out referendum on EU membership is the final capitulation to the growing euroscepticism which caused me to leave the Conservative party and join the Liberal Democrats.