Sentences with phrase «europhile party»

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The People's Pledge campaign accused Cameron of being «torn» between his own party's eurosceptic right - wingers and the europhile Liberal Democrats.

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

Corbyn is resisting pressure from europhiles in the party, who want him to commit Labour to keeping the UK permanently in the European single market and customs union after Brexit.

Not everyone is as enamoured with Europe as the Europhiles in the Labour Party.

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 AshcParty as «Europhile» and also the party's closeness to Lord Ashcparty's closeness to Lord Ashcroft.

Despite being on the Europhile wing of the party he gets on very well with the Eurosceptic wing of the party and led the delegation of MEPs well.

Mr Cameron also comes under fire from the party's Europhile wing.

He could make a welcome return to the cabinet and frontline politics after making such a spirited contribution to the party over the years of opposition by sitting next to Blair on a Europhile platform, calling anyone who disagreed with such a stance headbangers and underming successive leaders.

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.

I think John Redwood is right that voting UKIP will keep Eurosceptic MPs and the Tories, who are the more Eurosceptic main party, out, while letting more Europhile Lab and Lib Dems in.

John Major had to deal with a very significant Europhile tendency in the parliamentary party and in those days I used to come across Europhile activists frequently, they were probably a majority in the constituency I lived in.Now however I doubt more than 20 % of our parliamentary could be classified in any sense as Europhile and amongst the activists that I meet they are rarer than Hens teeth, even on this blog there are only a handful.

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.

The europhile claimed his former party has forgotten the legacy of Churchill, Macmillan and Thatcher, with the PM in «terror» of the right of his party.

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.