Sentences with phrase «europhiles in»

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

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.

As Corbyn can not convincingly pretend to be a paid - up Europhile in the mould of Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, the argument about Brexit undermining worker's rights appears to be his best bet for firing up his own side.

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

Not exact matches

As a europhile British ex-pat who once firmly believed in the European dream but now sees it for the dystopian nightmare it has become, I urge them not to waste it.

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.

Moderate revolutionaries, or eurosceptics, as we once called them, suddenly found themselves pushed into the ranks of europhiles; traditional pillars of the British society, whether judges or MPs, found themselves castigated as traitors to the true revolution, which - ironically - was carried out in the name of returning to British traditions.

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.

Andrew Adonis, a Europhile Labour peer who previously served as transport minister, was appointed chair of a cross-party National Infrastructure Commission in 2015.

«The prevailing view of Beeb newsrooms is, with honourable exceptions, statist, corporatist, defeatist, anti-business, Europhile and, above all, overwhelmingly biased to the Left,» he wrote in the Daily Telegraph last May.

Why is what ought to be a much lesser transgression in the eyes of Europhiles being held against him now?

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.

The europhile deputy prime minister made the comment as he stood in for Cameron, who is on a visit to Washington, for PMQs.

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.

Blair was the most Europhile prime minister since Edward Heath, but his disastrous messianism over Iraq split the European Union in two; Brown's ungracious behaviour over signing the Lisbon Treaty signalled (and was meant to signal) an arm's - length approach to the rest of the continent to which we belong when we desperately need to engage properly with it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A debate between leading Euro - realists and Europhiles is to be held in the Grand Committee Room in Westminster Hall on Monday, 5th September.

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.

Tory sources, ruing Cameron's personal decision to grant Clegg equal status in the three debates, started to point to his past as a full - time European commission bureaucrat, as well as his firm Europhile views.

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.

But the inexperienced Europhile Alexander, unlike Laws, has little credibility in the eyes of restless, right - wing Tory backbenchers.

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?»

Nick Bourne is a sad little nobody, and a dripping wet Europhile, in search of a headline.

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.

He is a Europhile and was in favour of the Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice treaties.

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.

It would appear to be felt much less in London and Scotland, and here in notoriously Europhile north Ceredigion (in Aberystwyth over 70 per cent voted to remain).

Some local examples can be reported from this Europhile quarter of mid-Wales and elsewhere in Wales.