Sentences with phrase «conservative europhile»

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The Conservative Party is, of course, itself a coalition of interests, spanning One Nation and Thatcherite, eurosceptic and europhile, libertarian and authoritarian.

John Major won the next contest, but Heseltine, an ardent Europhile, returned to the cabinet, rising to deputy prime minister in the last two years of Major's premiership, a period beset with Conservative disputes over the UK's relationship with the EU.

For Conservative Party members new rules have prevented them from deselecting Europhile MEPs.

Within the last week he has used his blog to attack the Conservative Party as «Europhile» and also the party's closeness to Lord Ashcroft.

The Conservatives have united behind their EU referendum strategy, but are hampered by backbenchers» barely concealed suspicion that their party leader is a closet Europhile.

Clarke's retirement from departmental office was viewed as a positive for both right - wingers and Eurosceptics in the Conservative Party, as Clarke was viewed as the Tories» most outspoken Europhile, and had been known as a liberal wet for decades.

It will also encourage Eurosceptics in the Conservative party to advertise their loyalties and put pressure on the Europhiles.

Damian Green MP, the former Conservative Home Office minister and leading Europhile, said that Mr Grayling had walked the «tightrope of overtly breaking» the rules Prime Minister David Cameron had set down last week about what ministers could and could not say ahead of the referendum.

On Monday, Europhile Labour MP, Denis MacShane asked Gordon Brown in the House of Commons: «Does he share my dismay that when the issue [tough stance on Russia] was fought out at the Council of Europe the other week, the Russians» closest collaborators and fellow travellers in the debate were UK delegates from the Conservative party?»

Eric Pickles is probably te only europhile in the conservative party that isn't universally loathed by the grassroots.

But, in reality, it appears that when Labour said our Eurosceptic promises were all hot air, they were right; that when Heseltine said that in government every Conservative Prime Minister is Europhile, he was right; that when UKIP said Conservatives were not to be trusted on Europe, they were right; that when I and others said that the Conservative Party had changed, and that Cameron and Hague were genuinely convicted Eurosceptics who understood what must be done and would not let us down, we were wrong.