Sentences with phrase «of eurosceptic parties»

I read with great interest Michael Brooks's article on the potential impact of eurosceptic parties on UK research (31 May,...

Much attention will be on the rise of Eurosceptic parties in the European elections, especially in France, as Hugh Schofield reports.

David Cameron is urging fellow European Union leaders to embrace reform, as mainstream parties fight to salvage their positions after the spectacular success across the continent of eurosceptic parties.

Five candidates including frontrunner Diane James are in the running to become the next leader of the eurosceptic party.

Not exact matches

A eurosceptic landslide by Marine Le Pen's Front National, Holland's Freedom Party, Italy's Cinque Stelle and Britain's UKIP, among others, will puncture the sense of historic inevitability that drives the EU Project.

The People's Pledge campaign accused Cameron of being «torn» between his own party's eurosceptic right - wingers and the europhile Liberal Democrats.

The YouGov survey of 800 Tory members showed nearly one in five were seriously considering voting for the eurosceptic party, while 53 % said they did not feel respected by the Conservative leadership.

Europe minister David Lidington has hit out against Conservative eurosceptics ahead of Wednesday's likely vote by telling them to focus on issues other than the in / out referendum tearing his party apart.

Brexit would not just mean that Europe loses one its most important members, but it would surely embolden eurosceptic parties in other countries to demand the repatriation of previously shared powers.

They should think of the most active Tory eurosceptics as being divided into essentially three groups: (a) Revolutionary Modernisers; (b) Maastricht Veterans and associates; and (c) Party Power Players.

This position sits in stark contrast with the history of the party, which for many decades was characterised by a significant Eurosceptic wing which sat alongside a pro-integrationist flank.

The Conservative Party is, of course, itself a coalition of interests, spanning One Nation and Thatcherite, eurosceptic and europhile, libertarian and authoritarian.

Initial responses seem to suggest that Cameron's ploy has worked to unite the Conservative Party: the Conservative Home blog has been publishing the reactions of delighted Eurosceptics all morning.

Apart from one major speech, he has kept a low profile on the issue and is regarded as the most Eurosceptic leader of the party in a generation.

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.

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.

He argues that the money given by the UK to the EU is given to other parts of the country at the expense of England, which makes his party Eurosceptic.

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.

As it stands, the Eurosceptic centre - right camp — made up of the Independence Party and the Progressive Party — is just shy, holding 29 seats.

On the Labour side, rebellious MPs have tended to be from Eurosceptic wings of the party, either from the Socialist Campaign Group wing (e.g. Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell) or from its conservative communitarian wing (e.g. Kate Hoey, Frank Field).

We should be careful, however, not to assume that Tory members are stranded so far to the ageing, white, authoritarian, eurosceptic right that they are completely unrepresentative of the party's voters.

«There is an extreme eurosceptic fringe of the Tory party who are prepared to do almost anything, including risk Britain's economic future, in pursuit of their agenda,» Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesperson Martin Horwood told politics.co.uk.

One third of members of the EP belong to Eurosceptic party groups, with similar trends unfolding in national election contests.

Those Eurosceptics are the handful of people who now run the country, the rebels on Europe who harassed successive Tory party leaders and who now bully those who question «the will of the people».

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

Mr Reckless claimed the collapse of the euro could help advance the agenda of the Conservative party's eurosceptics.

Eurosceptic feeling within the Conservative party has heightened in recent months as a result of the eurozone crisis, which is pulling the 18 member states with the euro closer together.

The eurosceptic party, which has 11 MEPs but no MPs in the Commons, is looking to capitalise after nearly half of David Cameron's backbenchers rebelled against his party on Europe.

At the election, UKIP's Jake Baynes was requested by his party to stand down owing to UKIP's policy of not standing a candidate in a constituency where there is already a committed eurosceptic, but he refused to do so.

Boris would be guaranteed a place in the top two and would win the final ballot of a eurosceptic and grateful party membership.

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.

There are not one, not two but three political groups in the European Parliament who consist of members of eurosceptic national parties:

«Do I happen to think that it would probably be a eurosceptic who would be the next leader of the party?

Eurosceptics on the government benches could not have beaten a frantic whipping operation without the support of the Labour party.

The «dangers of isolation» he associates with the main eurosceptic parties will be mocked.

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.

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Labour may be being opportunistic today but I saw a vision of a Eurosceptic and fiscally responsible Labour Party that should frighten every Tory.

The only major parliamentary party that is vocally eurosceptic is the Human Shield, whose candidates came fourth in the 2016 parliamentary election, winning 8 of 151 available seats.

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.

John Major was consistently opposed by Eurosceptics in his party (known as the Maastricht Rebels — a small minority of MPs before 1997, but enjoying much wider support among party activists).

Since his election as Conservative leader in 2005 he has been held hostage by the eurosceptic wing of his party.

Launching their manifesto this morning, UKIP leader Lord Pearson of Rannoch has announced that not only is his party making a conscious decision not to stand in a handful of seats held by what he defined as «committed eurosceptics» in the last Parliament, but that UKIP will «actively campaign» for them.

Mistrusted in Britain — nice but dim IDS has sounded off again — Juncker is the candidate of the European People's Party (EPP), the main conservative bloc which won the most seats in May's European elections, despite the widespread Eurosceptic surge.

It would be very sad if the two right - of - centre Eurosceptic parties at the general election were not able to find some way, at least in marginal seats, of reaching an accommodation so that anti-referendum candidates don't get in with a minority of votes.

[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.

One of the alliances that Number 10 has most feared is between Eurosceptic Tory backbenchers and the Labour Party.

UKIP may have cost the Conservatives up to 20 seats at the 2010 general election with a split in the eurosceptic vote, leading to talk of a ceasefire, pact or merger between the two parties.

But any attempt to backslide would rightly enrage Tory Eurosceptics, swiftly plunge the party into a brutal civil war, and leave Jeremy Corbyn within touching distance of 10 Downing Street.

Ukip is simply the fresh face of a long - standing Eurosceptic establishment, supported by many in the Tory party and significant parts of the press.