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Conservatives Archive
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Credit where it’s due
Posted on 25/06/2009 | No CommentsThe Conservatives have now formed their new group in the European Parliament, having left the EPP to found the European Conservatives and Reformists, ECR. David Cameron has kept his campaign promise from his leadership election in the autumn of 2005. A lot of words have... -
26 and a half members
Posted on 11/06/2009 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 11 June 2009 It is hard to analyse the European election results so soon after they have been announced. Judgements might be influenced by the campaign and the count which will, in truth, be soon forgotten while the electoral arithmetic... -
Conservative policy on Europe becomes clearer
Posted on 03/06/2009 | 1 CommentFor some time now, the Conservative policy on the Lisbon treaty is to hold a referendum on it if it is yet to come into force, but if it has come into force by the time they come into power, they have said merely that... -
Who pays for the rebate
Posted on 30/05/2009 | No CommentsConservative shadow foreign secretary William Hague chooses to attack Labour for agreeing to give up part of the British rebate. This is the feature of the EU budget whereby Britain gets compensated for the fact that, because of certain characteristics of its economy, it tends... -
The Conservatives are on the way out
Posted on 29/05/2009 | No CommentsCaroline Jackson, a Conservative MEP who is standing down this time, has gone into print in European Voice to criticise the decision to leave the EPP after the elections. (Read the article here.) This was a commitment made by David Cameron when he was running... -
An English Grand Committee won’t work
Posted on 02/11/2007 | 8 CommentsIn a further development of the Conservative idea of English votes for English laws idea, Tory MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind is now toying with the notion of an English Grand Committee in the House of Commons. This would bring together the MPs representing English constituencies... -
Homeless and helpless
Posted on 29/10/2007 | 1 CommentI remember there used to be a campaign in London on behalf of homeless people called “Homeless, not helpless”. Tory policy on Europe risks being both. It is well-known that the Tories are against the Reform Treaty and also in favour of a referendum on... -
Conservative and unionist
Posted on 04/03/2007 | No CommentsMy fax machine brings me an article by Bob Walter, the Tory MP for North Dorset. He is proposing a private members bill in the House of Commons that would remove the right to vote on English-only legislation from Scottish MPs. His intention, so he... -
With reform, Europe can be a force for good
Posted on 04/02/2007 | No CommentsLet’s ban the word “reform”. Who knows what it means? Who could ever be against it? It is like one of those irregular verbs that Craig Brown invents: - My reforms represent traditional values in a modern setting - You wish in retrospect you had... -
Months and not years
Posted on 30/07/2006 | No CommentsThis blog has reported before on the commitment by the Conservative party to leave the EPP in the European Parliament, and also on William Hague’s recent speech on his party’s view of Europe. Since then, the bid to leave the EPP has reached a conclusion....
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