David Cameron and senior Conservatives are at odds about whether to set a clear timetable for withdrawing British troops from Afghanistan.

Margaret Thatcher was this week inaugurated as president of the political foundation of the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament. Critics say the former Prime Minister has allowed her name and reputation to be associated with an assortment of right-wing fundamentalists many of whom hold views completely at odds with what David Cameron

Gary Titley MEP fires a broadside at Cameron’s Conservatives in Europe: “…Tories are still Tories. David Cameron might claim they have changed, but we see the real face of the Conservatives in the European parliament. In the last year alone Tory MEPs voted against fighting the trafficking of women, energy efficiency, the Fundamental Rights Agency and

Nick Clegg has laid bare the Coalition's rift over Europe by refusing to even attend Parliament as David Cameron briefed MPs about his decision to reject the new European treaty.

On 22nd June 2009 David Cameron announced that the UK Conservatives would form a new political group in the European Parliament, working together with reactionary and unpleasant parties such as Lijst de Decker from Belgium, Law & Justice from Poland and the Civic Democrats from the Czech Republic. The new group took the name European Conservatives and

BOOKMAKERS backed David Cameron to be in Downing Street by next month.

Whenever a London bookmaker made odds on Scottish politics, my former colleagues at The Scotsman used to make easy money*. The world of Holyrood, where yours truly served a one year tour of duty, has its own political weather system that it’s hard to understand from a distance – so likelihoods are given very high odds. But today Ladbrokes gives odds that I think are pretty fair: 20-1 o...

I've done a few posts about the European Parliament lately but one other thing I've noticed that is not so well known about is the actual history of the UK Conservatives' groups in the European Parliament. So here's my best attempt to briefly detail it: When the UK, together with Ireland and Denmark, entered the European Economic Community (as was) in 1973, the European Parliam...

José Manuel Barroso says the Tory plan to leave the European People's party means they will be no longer be part of a group that helps to 'shape the European agenda' David Cameron's decision to withdraw the Conservative party from the main centre-right group in the European parliament was today criticised by the president of the European commission. In a rare interventio...

Tory leader and potential future UK prime minister David Cameron will soon realise he "cannot afford" to become completely isolated in the EU after having "thrown away" British influence in the European Parliament by withdrawing Conservative MEPs from the European People's Party, Caroline Wunnerlich of consultancy Fleishman-Hillard told EurActiv in an interview.