Sentences with phrase «more eurosceptic»

Meanwhile, outside the prosperous South East, rural counties such as North Yorkshire and Dorset, and more urban ones, like West Yorkshire and Lancashire, are more integrated with the EU, and also tend to be more eurosceptic.

Cammy seems like one of the more Eurosceptic leaders we've had of late.

Because of changes made by the Party Board last year ordinary members can no longer place new and potentially more Eurosceptic candidates above sitting MEPs if those sitting MEPs have already been «toplisted» by the kind of Regional Selection Committee that convened yesterday.

All the mainstream parties will now have to decide whether to respond to Ukip's growing popularity by becoming more Eurosceptic and anti-immigrant, or instead challenging the party as an empty vehicle of protest.

Mr Cameron will need a number of other allies if he is to be successful in forcing the EU to change and he's in a race against time as the opinion - formers of the new, more Eurosceptic member nations develop a taste for the Brussels gravy train.

If David Cameron does not adopt a more Eurosceptic outlook - and certainly if he fails to deliver on his revised EPP pledge - he will only risk more leakage of supporters to Nigel Farage's party.

If UKIP are now going to focus resources on those Tory MPs and candidates who accept the European status quo there will be an increased incentive for Conservative Associations to select more Eurosceptic candidates.

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.

But everywhere else Labour is struggling, and this often coincides with places where people are more eurosceptic.

After becoming Prime Minister in 2010, Cameron came under fresh pressure from the new intake of Conservative MPs who were generally more eurosceptic.

Mark Pritchard (Con, incompetant army captain) makes more eurosceptic noise.

Fifteen million general election voters do not bother to go to the polling station for the European polls and those who do are typically older, whiter and more eurosceptic than general election voters.

The Conservative candidate also picked up more than double the number of Ukip voters as Khan, suggesting that Goldsmith could benefit among more Eurosceptic parts of outer London.

Tory MPs who were Remainers will know that their party will become more Eurosceptic as members who defected to Ukip return to the fold.

The Tories need to thik about how they are going to address the demand for a more eurosceptic policy agenda.

Installing a more Eurosceptic Europe Minister like Mark Francois, Greg Hands, Chris Heaton - Harris or Theresa Villiers - while appealing to Tory backbenchers - risks upsetting Nick Clegg (as well as Mr Clarke).

I think the Conservative party membership is much more eurosceptic than the leadership.»

Ireland has twice rejected EU treaties before changing its mind — and that was before austerity measures were levied on it, making it considerably more eurosceptic.

Are you really suggesting that Ed Miliband is more eurosceptic than Cameron?

He also claims the Lib Dems have distributed leaflets to women in the constituency alleging he is parliament's «second more eurosceptic MP».

Goldsmith's support for Brexit, which many had assumed would be a major hindrance to his campaign, could even end up helping the Tories in more Eurosceptic outer London.

The European elections in May are widely expected to see more Eurosceptics elected to the parliament, amid continuing economic hardship for millions of Europeans and a much - criticised «disconnect» between EU institutions and voters.

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.

Eurosceptics are excited about evidence that suggests their supporters are more firmly committed to their beliefs and more committed to turning out on June 23rd.

For instance, men are much more likely to support Eurosceptic parties such as UKIP and national independence movements such as those in Scotland or Catalonia.

However, with cultural angst high on the agenda, dissatisfaction with the incumbent government on the rise and a Eurosceptic campaign that is more sophisticated than some realise, it does appear likely that whatever the result, the Leave vote will be fairly strong.

There is a long - standing trend within the Parliamentary Conservative Party that privately schooled and Oxbridge educated MPs are more likely to be socially liberal and less Eurosceptic than their state - schooled and non-Oxbridge educated colleagues.

If this does happen — and chaos reigns — many eurosceptics will be looking for more radical ideas for a «hard» Brexit.

[12] This could either be linked directly to education, meaning that attending Oxbridge gives future MPs a less Eurosceptic worldview; or it could be linked to class, as Oxbridge - educated MPs are more likely to come from privileged backgrounds.

Holding his backbenchers in check on Europe has been ever more difficult to achieve, however, given the disproportionate number of hard - line Eurosceptics among the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs and the increasing discontent on the Conservative backbenches with the constraints of being in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Contingency plans for the collapse of the euro should be talked about more openly to «soften the blow» to the British public, a leading eurosceptic has said.

A surge in Ukip's support, combined with an expected bloodbath for the Liberal Democrats, could leave the eurosceptic party with more seats than the coalition partner.

Indeed, as EU observers have been noting, the more extreme eurosceptic Conservative noises off from Westminster have been anticipating — in the event of a «Yes» win - the end of Cameron, a caretaker leader until the May 2015 general election and a Labour victory.

With a slim majority of 12 seats, the new Prime Minister's autonomy will be highly constrained by his party, including assumingly more than a hundred convinced Eurosceptic MPs, and by the statutory Fixed - term Parliaments Act of 2011.

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.

We don't know what Boris really thinks about Brexit but we can assume that he is more of a eurosceptic than an outright europhobe like former environment minister Owen Paterson.

The more fervent of our colleagues may think it is peanuts and we should have gone further but that's simplistic nonsense»... Mr Clarke also renewed his attack on the Eurosceptic element of his party who advocate leaving the EU.

So while Cameron looks to secure approval from his party's eurosceptics by pursuing a strategy based on foot - dragging and referring to the rulebook, the politicians watching Britain's unhelpful tantrum become more and more disgusted.

Much is made by Eurosceptics that Brussels is more powerful than our Westminster Parliament, something borne out by your statement in your interview with Sharon Bowles: «She has far more impact on our legislation than your average Westminster politician.»

Yesterday the names of the remaining members emerged and it is notable that the eurosceptic Tory Right is more than amply represented in the form of Peter Bone, Philip Davies and Philip Hollobone.

The usefulness of the lock had already been questioned by Eurosceptics and it looks much more vulnerable today.

Nowhere has this been more evident than in his Europe policy, where he essentially caved in to the more rabid Eurosceptic elements in his own party, in the hope of stemming the flow of voters and defecting MPs to UKIP.

On the Labour side, for example, prominent non-Corbynites and former Shadow Cabinet members such as Yvette Cooper, Hilary Benn, Mary Creagh and Rachel Reeves will chair committees, while the list of Conservative party chairs and candidates is significantly more liberal and less Eurosceptic than the party leadership, with Tom Tugendhat, Robert Halfon and Nicky Morgan joining fellow Remainers Damian Collins, Sarah Wollaston, Bob Neill and Neil Parish.

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.

Michael Crick does not agree, pointing out that many of Heseltine's supporters from 1990 had retired from the Commons and the 1992 intake was more right - wing and eurosceptic.

Some of the other Conservative «rebels» on Lords reform are more generally opposed to Cameron's leadership and the coalition, blaming their leader for failing to win a clear majority in 2010 and failing to pursue the more populist eurosceptic and anti-immigrant positions of his predecessors (who were actually much less successful in general election terms).

Moving with a clarity that poses a campaign challenge to Labour, David Cameron on Tuesday pointed the Conservative party in a more markedly Eurosceptic direction than ever before in his pre-election reshuffle.

And in a hint that he expects eurosceptics to make more gains, he taunted: «Enjoy the European elections next year, they're going to be great fun.»

He said: «The backbench Eurosceptic opinion is altogether more newsworthy particularly in the rightwing popular press... The party depends for its support on the Conservative mainstream and the more orthodox backbenchers.