Sentences with word «europhile»

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.

The hard core of europhile 1980s cabinet ministers were there - Heseltine, Hailsham, Patten - but it is also worth noting the smattering of Cameron appointees who were there as well - Baroness Altmann, Baroness Wheatcroft, Baroness Verma, Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint, Lord Cooper of Windrush, Lord Prior of Brampton.

The Baldrickesque cunning plan will see arch-Brexiters Liam Fox and Michael Gove team up with Europhile David Lidington to examine the customs partnership, while the pro-EU Greg Clark and Karen Bradley will join Leave big beast David Davis to look at the maximum facilitation option.

There were several components of this sharper - edged approach: a succession of Eurosceptic appointments to key ministerial positions; the forced exit of the House of Commons» sole remaining Tory Europhile Ken Clarke; the sacking of the last of the John Major - era Europragmatists; and the nomination of a low - profile technocrat to be Britain's commissioner.

If it does not — and if it thus succeeds in depriving the Conservatives of a working majority and inflating the LibDem result by default - it will have been responsible for providing the most Europhile party in British politics with signficant power in a coalition government.»

Indeed, there was quite a bit of EU bashing at this SNP conference, surprising for a supposedly Europhile party but less so when you consider its need to decouple its core aim from Brexit.

Since joining the common market in 1975 the people of Britain have been repeatedly told by europhile politicians in Westminster and eurocrats in Brussels that the European project represents no threat whatsoever to British sovereignty or democracy.

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?»

Thus UKIP vote goes down - although their new policy of not standing against BOO supporting MPs will ensure that it is europhiles who lose out to UKIP votes next election.

Only the long - time europhile Ken Clarke defied his party whips on the final division.

Three of Britain's leading Europhile politicians were today spotted strolling into the European...

Clegg, who is a committed europhile, warned that pulling out of EU justice measures would hit anti-terrorism and crime efforts, despite expectations that Cameron will highlight problems with the European arrest warrant.

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

It's notable that two of Cameron's Cabinet colleagues who have broken cover in recent days — eurosceptic Michael Gove and europhile Kenneth Clarke — are far more widely thought than the Prime Minister to put strength of feeling ahead of tactics.

«There have been moments since June 23 when I feared that I might be strangled by a pop - eyed Europhile Remainer... I hope my comeback will be a bit longer than Kim the alsatian.»

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.

While Europhiles flounder after the first no vote by a founder member, the latest crop of European...

Here the Aarhus Convention still offers some protection, but ultimate Europhile Grayling, who must hate being thwarted by European law, is likely to look for ways to restrict this as well.

«Like the faithful Alsatian belonging to Michael Heseltine, there have been moments since June 23, when in those very grim days after June 23, I genuinely feared that I might be strangled by a crazed, pop - eyed Europhile Remainer and like Kim the Alsatian therefore I am absolutely thrilled to have had this reprieve.»

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.

A vote for the Tory Europhile MEPs is a vote for President Barroso who thinks that British voters don't matter.

With many of Labour's most eloquent Europhiles, not least his brother, David, on the sidelines, Miliband's shadow cabinet contains voices ranging from the nuanced Europhilia of Douglas Alexander to the more ambivalent stance of Ed Balls, who has lumped Cameron and European leaders together under the general heading of «catastrophic».

Again, particularly in these times of euroscepticism and the tabloids» war on the EU, this book fills an important gap and might provide europhiles with some excellent arguments for their next chat with the sceptics.

Scotland is, of course, more pro-EU than England - though certainly not Europhile.

The broadside from the veteran europhile minister comes as David Cameron tries to face down a significant challenge on his eurosceptic flank, with a letter from 95 Tory MPs demanding parliament be given a vote on all EU laws.

Asked what would happen after five years of a Corbyn government, Heseltine, a lifelong Europhile, said: «We have survived Labour governments before.

It is such a shame the Westminister, europhile establishment will simply not let the British people be heard and our sovereignty reinstated.

Europhiles make a different kind of mistake: they see the EU as a synonym of integration.

Eurosceptics hope that the fall of the EU will bring power back to national capitals, while Europhiles fear that the fall of the EU will cause misery and conflict.

If Lib Dem strategists and fellow europhiles are looking with dismay at the poll results, it is for a good reason: they have been unwilling or unable to make an argument for what they supposedly believe in.

Europhiles want to stick to the EU because the end of European integration is likely to hamper businesses and take Europe back to old style geopolitics with numerous destabilizing implications.

Either way, it looks like Iceland's Europhile minnows could emerge as the biggest winner of all.

Might the PM be interested in getting infamous Tory Europhile Michael Heseltine to conduct an inquiry into the consequences of Britain leaving the EU, he suggested?

The traditionally Europhile Lib Dems will struggle to accept the bill, although the party had previously campaigned for a more holistic «in - or - out» referendum on the EU, despite its pro-European credentials.

The pro-immigration pressure on the Labour leader from the likes of union boss Manuel Cortes and Momentum activist Michael Chessum - both allies of Corbyn, not his usual Europhile centrist detractors - carries much greater significance than the silly season twitterstorms of ex-Spadocrats in Greek holiday villas.

The leader of the opposition quoted the renowned europhile, Michael Heseltine, on the matter: «To commit to a referendum about a negotiation that hasn't begun, on a timescale you can not predict, on an outcome that's unknown, where Britain's appeal as an inward investment market would be the centre of the debate, seems to me like an unnecessary gamble.»

Europe is both a source of pain for the British economy and a dully deliberate foreign policy setback for the coalition - however Europhile the Lib Dems may be.

So on Europe, this lonely Europhile can describe his party's internal debates as «suicidal rows», dismissively noting that «the party can repeat that if it wants.»

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.

A staunch Europhile, Mr Clegg went on to study at the College d'Europe in Bruges from where he went on to find employment with ex-Tory Minister Leon Brittan, who was the European Commissioner for Trade at the time.

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.

It won't wash and on current indications UKIP will take a lot of votes from each of the 3 Europhile old parties in June next year.

I for one am not interested in having a Conservative government that just dances to the soft Left europhile tune when in office.

It is hard to forgive Michael Howard for trying to scrap our vote in leadership elections and David Cameron for stopping us from deselecting Europhile M.E.P.s

This same Lady I have heard on the radio many times tearing stupid Europhiles and lefties apart using her brains and knowledge of life and she was turned down for some of the chinless wonders that would be an embarrassment to our great party.

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.

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.

Mr Clarke, regarded as the sole Conservative europhile in the Cabinet, said: «David Cameron has already shown what can be achieved in Europe through strong, determined leadership.