Sentences with phrase «at eurosceptic»

Appearing on stage to a rapturous reception at the eurosceptic party's conference in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Mr Reckless told activists voters felt «ripped off and lied to».

It comes after Morgan recently took a swipe at her eurosceptic cabinet colleague Iain Duncan Smith, telling the Independent on Sunday:

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

I suppose that's a dig at Eurosceptics.

Not exact matches

But despite criticism at home and abroad, the eurosceptic PiS enjoys steady support among many Poles eager to hear its message of higher welfare, more Catholic values in public life and less dependence on foreign capital.

As Cameron at 10 describes it «The move pleased Eurosceptics while causing dismay in European capitals, notably Berlin, and led to an angry Angela Merkel withdrawing the head of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung political foundation in London, Thomas Bernd Stehling».

From the viewpoint of eurosceptics, a negative focus was needed because of specific challenges thrown at them by those in power.

At domestic level the democratic crisis evolved instead into a political crisis which translated into the appointment of technical governments in countries such as Italy and Greece, and in the rise or strengthening of nationalistic and eurosceptic movements in several EU Member States.

It might not do the eurosceptic cause any good, but Carswell's defection can at least throw a grenade under the Westminster system

However the EU is not always at the forefront of voters» minds: although eurosceptics are frequently vocal in their opposition to the EU, the empirical evidence suggests that, overall, European voters don't consider the EU as an important issue unless events bring it to their attention (such as the signing of a new treaty).

But it is worth noting that, as an ideologue distrustful of government and committed to British sovereignty, he has at least been a consistent Eurosceptic.

Boris Johnson will spend Christmas at Chevening this year after shaking off competition from his fellow eurosceptic Cabinet ministers.

Whatever, Boris is, on the face of it at least, nicely placed to take over — all the more so perhaps because Tory Eurosceptics won't have failed to notice that he's moved more and more firmly towards (without ever actually fully joining) the «Better Off Out» camp.

He would still hope to benefit from the support of eurosceptics within the parliamentary party and the membership at large, and as a leaver, might be more trusted to ensure there was no backsliding by the EU on delivering Cameron's negotiated agreement.

He argues that the money given by the UK to the EU is given to other parts of the country at the expense of England, which makes his party Eurosceptic.

At the election, UKIP's Jake Baynes was requested by his party to stand down owing to UKIP's policy of not standing a candidate in a constituency where there is already a committed eurosceptic, but he refused to do so.

That's why eurosceptics find it very difficult to move from denunciation to the formulation of any kind of policy or legal language that could be put in law (whether at the national or EU levels).

The one thing that has really angered Pursglove — along with his eurosceptic colleagues - is the government's decision to distribute 27 million pro-EU leaflets to households across Britain, at the cost of # 9.3 m to the taxpayer.

In addition, if the Prime Minister can obtain concessions on constitutional issues such as more powers for national parliaments, the removal of the much hated reference to «ever closer union» in the EU treaties or even the promise to renegotiate a new EU treaty at a later stage, he can perhaps persuade another handful of Tory eurosceptics to campaign to remain in the EU.

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Sadly, if predictably, this has failed to secure them and their leader the undying affection of their Conservative partners, as anyone who witnessed Tory Eurosceptics baiting Nick Clegg when he stood in for David Cameron at PMQs yesterday can attest.

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.

Any other MP as eurosceptic as Rees - Mogg would be furious at being dragged away from the rabid Commons brawl over the Government's controversial # 9m EU leaflet.

Eurosceptics had been floating the idea of a referendum on membership of the Single Currency or even of membership of the European Community, since at least 1994.

It would be very sad if the two right - of - centre Eurosceptic parties at the general election were not able to find some way, at least in marginal seats, of reaching an accommodation so that anti-referendum candidates don't get in with a minority of votes.

UKIP may have cost the Conservatives up to 20 seats at the 2010 general election with a split in the eurosceptic vote, leading to talk of a ceasefire, pact or merger between the two parties.

I was there on the ground and was amazed at how much of their vote seemed to be coming from working and lower middle class voters, eurosceptic and socially conservative people, many of whom will have voted Labour at some point in the near past.

David Harding, pictured here on the left with architect Zaha Hadid and Eurosceptic business secretary Sajid Javid at the Science Museum, has broken ranks with his fellow lords of the financial universe to join the «In» campaign with both money and mouth.

Theresa May is fortunate in that the Labour official opposition is in permanent turmoil and the rebellious Eurosceptic right of UKIP and the Conservative Party are, at present, both sated and quiet.

A Conservative MP has been recorded referring to the «real nigger in the woodpile» at a meeting of eurosceptics in central London.

On the Today programme, presenter Sarah Montague noted that Howard — along with Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo — was part of the trio of Eurosceptic ministers that Major had hit out at in such memorable fashion.

Conservative EU champion Ken Clarke has hit out at the «extreme right - wing nationalism» of eurosceptics - in both Ukip and his only party.

The justice secretary, who has been arguing against eurosceptics for the duration of his 42 - year parliamentary career, hit out at those calling for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU in the wake of the eurocrisis.

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.

Writing on his blog, eurosceptic Tory MP John Redwood made clear his unhappiness at the whole guessing game:

Thus far — perhaps in a misguided belief that traditionalists and Eurosceptics have nowhere else to go — all effort has gone into pursuing the so - called centre ground at the expense of shoring up «the core vote».

MPs have also been angered by a media briefing note sent to them at 6 am claiming that as a lifelong eurosceptic, Mr Corbyn was «far closer to the centre of gravity of the British public».

Adam Fleming reports on what the party, public and pollsters reckon about the Eurosceptics» chances at these polls and next year's general election.

«Strategic defectors» are voters who support Ukip at European elections but return to the Conservatives at general elections: they are older, financially comfortable, middle - class men with Conservative sympathies, socially conservative Eurosceptics who are motivated principally by their desire to send a message to the Conservatives.

It is perfectly reasonable that he wishes to postpone any action on the EU question at present, as he describes the European leaders as preoccupied with «fighting the fire» in the eurozone, but it would be in Cameron's interest to slide off the fence in this instance, or to stop leaping back and forth over it, in order to allow a focused, informed debate to develop, without eurosceptics and europhiles alike having to second - guess his every future decision on the subject.

At the 1997 general election, Blunt was elected to Parliament as Member for Reigate in Surrey, replacing the long - serving strongly Eurosceptic MP Sir George Gardiner, who had been deselected by the local Conservative Party.

Conservative EU champion Ken Clarke has hit out at the «extreme right - wing nationalism» of eurosceptics - in both Ukip and his own party.

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.

It may be that support of the Better Off Out campaign is necessary to qualify to be «Eurosceptic» - a campaign that enjoys the support of at least a third of Tory members.

They are vehemently Eurosceptic, calling for withdrawal from both the EU and the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), oppose foreign aid, want to limit the number of EU immigrants coming to the UK and agree that immigrants should have to wait at least five years before receiving state benefits.

Labour Eurosceptics of the 1970s feared that the Common Market was a big «capitalist club» that would undo the steps towards British socialism — not everyone thought that was an oxymoron at the time — that Labour had made since the great post-war administration of 1945 - 51.

So what we have got in microcosm is something we have had at every general election in my lifetime, which is that an essentially Eurosceptic electorate keeps returning essentially Europhile majorities to parliament.

But there was an ominous sign at prime minister's questions of agitation on the right when the sacked Eurosceptic environment secretary Owen Paterson made a point of standing in a hostile manner next to the former defence secretary Liam Fox by the bar of the House of Commons.

Internal Tory polls failed to capture what columnists had long warned — that his relationship with many traditional Eurosceptic voters was at breaking point.

Crucially, this is the view of a significant number of his Eurosceptic MPs, including his former Press Secretary, George Eustice, who has proved an important unifying intermediary at times for Cameron over Europe.