Sentences with phrase «eurosceptic views»

While Mr Farage suggested up to a quarter of MEPs in the next European Parliament could hold eurosceptic views, he suggested their numbers would not be sufficient to block legislation.

Paper stands by its frontpage story claiming monarch voiced strong Eurosceptic views during a lunch with former deputy PM Nick Clegg

[9] The Eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party did not field a candidate against Hollobone in the 2010 general election and subsequently campaigned for his re-election as a result of his Eurosceptic views.

Asked whether she was surprised that the largest majority of viewers seemed to think Nigel Farage had won the debate, Jane cited BES data showing that a similar sized majority are closer to Farage's eurosceptic views.

It was not a book propounding Thatcherite, Eurosceptic views.

Not exact matches

Even on Europe, there is an English dimension that is simply not reflected in current political rhetoric — even among those Eurosceptics who pride themselves in reflecting the view from the street or saloon bar.

It is interesting that Mr Hammond - one of the Cabinet's most Eurosceptic members - has written a letter to the PM, with the Europhile Vince Cable, setting out his views on reforming EU contracts.

«Of course [eurosceptics] think it's a triumph but in my view they're spectacularly misguided.

It stems from a history of eurosceptic thinking which has always viewed the lending or giving up of sovereignty as intrinsically unpatriotic.

The ruling will be viewed as a victory for eurosceptics, who had spoken out against the creeping influence of the Strasbourg court.

No, it is William Hague, the famously Eurosceptic shadow foreign secretary, sitting in his modern corner office with its bow - window view of Parliament Square and delivering a carefully calibrated message of reassurance to the Guardian and the world.

Eurosceptic MEP David Campbell Bannerman slammed a warning in the letter that ministers who campaign must have «long - standing and sincerely held views».

The PM made his EU referendum pledge to quell his angry backbenchers, who believe themselves to represent the views of a Eurosceptic British public.

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.

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.

As Iain Duncan Smith, Dominic Raab, Michael Gove and other Eurosceptic ministers toured the weekend broadcast studios in a well coordinated attack, their collective view seemed to be that Cameron had done his best in Brussels, but his deal would not stem the flow of migration, safeguard the City of London or even be legally enforceable.

Anne Marie Waters was banned from being a candidate for the Eurosceptic party during their disastrous general election campaign after former leader Paul Nuttall said her views go «above and beyond party policy»

Fleet Street complains that Hague had lost his Eurosceptic zeal and that the new foreign secretary, Phil Hammond — Quentin Letts's condescending profile in the Mail is fun to read — who once voiced a» reform or quit» view on EU membership, should be much tougher.

A handful of Eurosceptics in the party «always had their own quaint view», Johnson said, but Corbyn's mind was genuinely changed on the issue.

Eurosceptic Labour MP Kate Hoey told BBC News Jeremy Corbyn has not reneged on his anti-EU views despite making the case for remaining in the bloc during a speech in London today.

In the meantime, I'll continue to sharpen my political views in discussion with my daughter (Scottish Federation of Anarchists) and my son (Gaullist, Eurosceptic party «Debout La République»).

On the one hand, public opinion in the UK has long been considered insular and Eurosceptic, but the referendum seemed to trigger the more open and confident expression of xenophobic views and suggests a polarisation of opinion on Britain's international and European roles.