Sentences with phrase «first eurosceptic party»

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With the count still ongoing on Friday morning, there were seven new UKIP assembly members — the first Welsh seats ever claimed by the eurosceptic party.

The first afternoon session was led by Professor Catherine de Vries, who explained the results of her extensive work into Eurosceptic parties and voters.

The French president, François Hollande, has warned that Europe risks «regression and paralysis» if Eurosceptics and nationalists gain the upper hand in next year's European parliament elections, as an opinion poll for the first time put the anti-immigrant National Front (NF) well ahead of his country's mainstream parties.

Their researchers say the issue will be forced back on to the agenda after party conferences when Douglas Carswell, who defected from the Tories to Ukip, is expected to win a Clacton - on - sea byelection and become the Eurosceptic party's first MP.

In their second ever national poll, pollsters Survation raised eyebrows by placing Ukip on 11 %, just one point behind the Liberal Democrats and up seven points from the eurosceptic party's showing in their first survey.

The decision to hold a referendum in the first place was party political — former Prime Minister David Cameron's attempt, monumentally failed, to silence Conservative eurosceptics and to quash UKIP.

Once in Parliament, she appeared to sign up to the Eurosceptic - wing of the party, first supporting Michael Howard then William Hague for the Conservative leadership.