Sentences with phrase «said eurosceptic parties»

The Ukip leader said eurosceptic parties on the right and left would fail to win enough support to put a real block on the European parliament.

In an open letter to party leader Nigel Farage, Tory donor Michael Ashcroft said the eurosceptic party was acting against its own interest by challenging the Conservatives.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

The eurosceptic party says the stories are the result of a smear campaign originating in Conservative head office.

But other voices say the Tories need to build bridges with the eurosceptic party or risk splitting the right - wing vote and letting Labour in.

The data suggests that many older voters will switch away from the eurosceptic party in 2015 with less than three quarters of Ukip voters in the 2014 European elections saying they could see themselves doing the same in a General Election.

«He probably would find it amazing to believe that his party had become eurosceptic, and rather mildly anti-immigrant in a really strange way in 2016,» said Clarke.

Balls said he respected Osborne, his old Commons sparring partner, for facing down the Eurosceptics in his own party, comparing it to his own decision to refuse to back joining the euro when Labour was in government.

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»

A third of voters in 40 marginal seats would consider voting for Ukip at the next general election but over half said they would next cast their ballot for the eurosceptic party, a new ComRes poll for ITV News suggests.

But, in reality, it appears that when Labour said our Eurosceptic promises were all hot air, they were right; that when Heseltine said that in government every Conservative Prime Minister is Europhile, he was right; that when UKIP said Conservatives were not to be trusted on Europe, they were right; that when I and others said that the Conservative Party had changed, and that Cameron and Hague were genuinely convicted Eurosceptics who understood what must be done and would not let us down, we were wrong.

But general secretary Paul Oakley said it was «not all over at all» for the Eurosceptic party, which has suffered since the Brexit vote in 2016.

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.

But Labour MP Graham Stringer, who is also in favour of Brexit, said while he was not surprised by Mr Corbyn's intervention, his party leader was still a eurosceptic at heart.

That is now threatened by the surge in support for Eurosceptic parties in last week's elections (see «What the data says about Europe's lurch to the right «-RRB-.