Edward MacMillan Scott was leader of the Tory MEPs. Before that, he had a long and distinguished career as a Conservative MEP. He vigorously opposed the decision to leave the centre-right European Parliament grouping, of the European People's Party, and certainly considered that the new leader under whom the Tories now grouped, Michal Kaminski, was too extreme for a moderate British party. Now, fi...

Nick Clegg on Friday promised to give 'comfort to the markets' as he opened the Liberal Democrat spring conference celebrating the 'defection' of a disgruntled former Conservative MEP

Exciting news live from the LDV Broom Cupboard in Birmingham’s ICC. News reaches us that Conservative MEP Edward McMillan-Scott has defected to the Liberal Democrats and will be joining us here at party conference. The MEP said today: “I have been around the higher circles of the Conservative party for long enough to fear that on Europe

A long-serving Conservative MEP, expelled in a row over the party's new allies in Europe, has joined the Liberal Democrats.

Nick Griffin, the British National Party leader and MEP, has not published details of his own expenses despite campaigning on an anti-sleaze platform during European elections.

EU president Herman Van Rompuy says he pities Nigel Farage, the British Eurosceptic MEP who called him a "damp rag".

The BNP has announced its Buckingham candidate for the 2010 General Election, adding another candidate to a slate which already includes UKIP, John Stevens (former Lib Dem member and before that, Conservative MEP,) Patrick Phillips (“conservatively minded” Independent candidate) and Geoff Howard (former Conservative and UKIP member). With the three main parties refraining from standing...

By Roger Helmer MEP. Labour's attempts to promote debt relief for poor countries appear superficially admirable. In reality, the Private Member's Bill sponsored by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne, which has reached committee stage in the House of Commons (March 9)...

This week The Times reported of Nikki Sinclaire: The UK Independence Party has expelled one of its MEPs after she refused to sit with its right-wing Italian allies in the European Parliament and fell out with former leader Nigel Farage… Ms Sinclaire, 41, an MEP for the West Midlands, insisted that she wanted to stay with the

A EURO MP has called for the £40 million worth of dead fish that Scots fishermen are forced to dump at sea to be turned into animal "super food".