Sentences with phrase «eurosceptic group»

Christopher Howarth is a former staff member at the Eurosceptic group «Open Europe» and for the Conservative MP and ERG member Mark Francois.

The official Brexit campaign group accused ITV of a «stitch up» for selecting the Ukip leader, who has always supported rival eurosceptic group Leave.EU.

But the official Brexit campaign group accused ITV of a «stitch up» for selecting Farage who supports rival eurosceptic group, Leave.EU.

He saw himself as representing moderate euroscepticism, and believed his role was to act as a negotiator between the various eurosceptic groups and Richard Ryder, the chief whip.

European parliament tightens controls on party funding after several Eurosceptic groups allied to Ukip were found to have misused grants

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They should think of the most active Tory eurosceptics as being divided into essentially three groups: (a) Revolutionary Modernisers; (b) Maastricht Veterans and associates; and (c) Party Power Players.

On the Labour side, rebellious MPs have tended to be from Eurosceptic wings of the party, either from the Socialist Campaign Group wing (e.g. Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell) or from its conservative communitarian wing (e.g. Kate Hoey, Frank Field).

One third of members of the EP belong to Eurosceptic party groups, with similar trends unfolding in national election contests.

The accusation is embarrassing for Tory leader David Cameron, who insisted the Tory MEPs form a group with other Eurosceptics.

Jacob Rees - Mogg, a Conservative backbencher and leader of the Eurosceptic European Research Group, said customs union membership was unacceptable to leading Brexit supporters and accused Philip Hammond, the chancellor, of undermining Britain's departure from the EU.

There are not one, not two but three political groups in the European Parliament who consist of members of eurosceptic national parties:

Eurosceptic MPs are on manoeuvres with the formation of a cross-party group calling for an EU referendum.

Meanwhile, the eurosceptic lobby group Open Europe highlighted a complex provision in the Lisbon treaty which allows the government to decide before June 2014 whether to continue to apply a raft of EU justice and policing laws past December 2014.

His eurosceptic inclinations are so strong that Pursglove helped found Brexit group Grassroots Out with older fellow Conservative backbencher Peter Bone earlier this year.

At the European level, the party allied itself with moderate Eurosceptics such as the British Conservative Party, the Czech Civic Democrats and the Polish Law and Justice, and sits on the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament.

The group pressing for an early concession on Cameron's referendum believe that such a move would ease the pressure on them from Eurosceptics in their constituencies and would help them on the doorsteps to deal with anger about EU immigration.

Some 110 MPs are now said to be signed up to the eurosceptic Conservatives for Britain group, set up last weekend to back an exit if Cameron does not win far - reaching change.

There was also a minor disturbance at the speech as Cameron was heckled by Eurosceptic campaigners, understood to be linked to the Vote Leave campaign group.

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries says Europe is «dying on its feet» as she joins a group of Eurosceptic MPs trying to engineer a Commons vote on an EU referendum.

There are numerous other groups, including communists, greens, regionalists, conservatives, liberals and eurosceptics.

In this way the Group provides valuable and informative ammunition for Eurosceptics.

The Bruges Group will be kicking off 2013 with a February meeting on «How to deliver a UK free of the EU», featuring long - serving Eurosceptic backbencher and Maastricht rebel Sir Richard Shepherd MP (Aldridge - Brownhills), as well as Peter Bone MP (Wellingborough) and Dominic Raab MP (Esher and Walton).

As president of a pan-European group of dubious right - wing eurosceptics, claims credit for every amendment tables by his groups.

In Europe, the British prime minister is friendless and isolated after he sacrificed a place at the dominant centre - right grouping to form an alliance of fringe elements — all in a knee - jerk bid to satisfy his own eurosceptics.

He was Scottish spokesperson for Conservative Friends of Israel and for the Campaign Against Political Correctness, a campaign allied to the Freedom Association, a right - wing Eurosceptic pressure group that supported apartheid in South Africa.

Rotherham told openDemocracy that during his time working for Vote Leave, he «was in touch with a range of Eurosceptic campaigners, of which VfB [Veterans for Britain] was one group» — which in itself breaks no rules.

Just as the Europhile Kenneth Clarke and Eurosceptic John Redwood formed an axis in 1997 in a (doomed) attempt to deny William Hague the Tory leadership, so in 2008 there is bizarre talk of an insurgent alliance of neo-Blairites and the left - wing Compass group.

The Telegraph also reports that the forty - strong group of socially - conservative and Eurosceptic Tory MPs - Cornerstone - are planning to publish their own «mini-manifesto».

In the Vote Leave submission to the Electoral Commission for designated status as the lead campaigner, they described Rotherham's job with them as «coordinating with specialist researchers working in parallel for allied think tanks and groups... and maintaining formal and informal outreach across the wider Eurosceptic movement.»

While Vote Leave is the official Brexit campaign group backed by Boris Johnson and other senior Eurosceptic Tories such as Michael Gove and Liam Fox, Leave.EU is endorsed by Ukip and was founded by Banks, a businessman and Ukip donor.

Conservatives for Britain is a Eurosceptic political pressure group within the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.

Cameron declared during the 2005 leadership contest that the Tories would withdraw from the centre - right grouping in the European parliament, partly to attract the support of eurosceptic MPs, when he almost certainly would have won without making such a commitment.

During the referendum he was a Eurosceptic but chose to ally himself with the Grassroots Out group linked to Ukip donor Arron Banks.

The main group fighting to pull Britain out of the European Union was in disarray as Tory Eurosceptic MPs clashed with the organisation's chief executive and one director announced he was quitting in disgust.

Sanni, who was treasurer and secretary of BeLeave at 22, is still a committed Eurosceptic and works at the TaxPayers» Alliance campaign group.