Sentences with phrase «most europhile»

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.

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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.

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.

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».