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- No end to the controversy - 23/01/2013Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union:...
- Prospects for a referendum on Europe - 15/01/2013Report on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a...
- Federal Union review of 2012 - 05/01/2013The most important outcome of the past 12 months is that the eurozone survived. The world was poised on the edge of a financial precipice at the beginning of last...
Latest Blog Entries
- Trade war over gambling - 30/01/2013International trade disputes often shine a light on odd behaviour, and the dispute between the United States and the tiny Caribbean island country Antigua and Barbuda is no exception. Originally...
- The wrong conclusion on welfare reform - 24/01/2013In his speech on Europe yesterday, David Cameron observed that Europe, with seven per cent of the world’s population and 25 per cent of world GDP, accounts for 50 per...
- The Speech - 23/01/2013So we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.)...
Conservatives Archive
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No end to the controversy
Posted on 23/01/2013 | No CommentsBrendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust and a former Member of the European Parliament, has commented as follows on Mr Cameron’s speech on Britain’s position in the European Union: “Despite the publicity that has surrounded it, it is very difficult to believe that Mr... -
The Speech
Posted on 23/01/2013 | No CommentsSo we have finally heard The Speech. David Cameron spoke this morning to outline what Conservative party policy on Europe would be after the next election. (Read the speech here.) David Cameron wants to renegotiate the terms of British membership of the EU and put... -
A lack of leadership
Posted on 18/01/2013 | No CommentsIt has been a consistent theme of this website that Britain’s role in Europe is declining because of a lack of leadership. Yes, public opinion is drifting against the EU, but that’s hardly surprising when nobody is willing to put the opposite case. And yesterday... -
Prospects for a referendum on Europe
Posted on 15/01/2013 | No CommentsReport on discussion at the Federal Union committee The prime minister will give his long-awaited speech on his new Europe policy this coming Friday. In it, he will announce a plan for a referendum on Europe. All that remains unclear are the question, the timing,... -
Party views of a referendum on Europe
Posted on 16/10/2012 | 2 CommentsThe prospect of a referendum on British membership of the EU continues to hang over British politics. (Federal Union has warned of the reasons why such a referendum might not be as neat and democratic as it sounds here, but there remain plenty of people... -
Punished for telling the truth
Posted on 05/04/2012 | No CommentsAn interview with Lib Dem cabinet minister Ed Davey in the New Statesman this week has provoked an astonishing reaction. He comments on the experience in government of dealing with the EU and with the other member state governments within it: “In due course this... -
Good politics, now all Labour needs is a policy
Posted on 26/10/2011 | No CommentsBy Sir Julian Priestley Labour’s decision to put a three-line whip on the vote on an in/out referendum was a good decision. It moved the focus to the resurgence of Tory divisions on Europe. It seemed like statesmanship to be offering to dig the prime... -
Don’t bind my hands
Posted on 24/10/2011 | No CommentsIn the 1997 general election, Conservative party leader John Major was reduced to pleading with his candidates who wanted to rule out, for ever, British membership of the euro. In a theatrical gesture at a press conference, he declared: “Whether you agree with me, disagree... -
Increasingly presidential
Posted on 30/04/2010 | No CommentsThe Conservatives have proposed that anyone who takes over as prime minister during a parliament should be required to call a general election within six months. (Read a report on this proposal here.) Obviously, this is a gibe at Gordon Brown, who after succeeding Tony... -
Britain, Europe and the general election
Posted on 14/04/2010 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Today’s conference has been looking at the Europe policies of the different political parties. I will speak about the Liberal Democrats’ policies in a moment but I want to preface my remarks with a comment about why we are interested in the...
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