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

An MEP who channelled more than £500,000 of allowances into a business run by his wife and daughter has been expelled from the Conservative Party. Den Dover, who used to be the party's chief whip in Europe, was dismissed after David Cameron learnt that a European Parliament investigation had found major discrepancies in his use of allowances.

Labour's MEP leader warns on cost of Tory isolation and their plans to scrap RDAs Glenis Willmott MEP, Labour's leader in the European Parliament, in an article for Progress online today warned of the threat that David Cameron's EU policies pose to jobs and investment in Britain. Glenis Willmott said: "David Cameron's policy of isolation in Europe and the Tories' pledge to...

David Cameron is expected to move swiftly this week to break with the centre-right winners of the European election and seal a new alliance of Eurosceptics with at least six other parties, mainly in eastern Europe. Timothy Kirkhope, the newly elected MEP for Yorkshire and Tory leader in the European parliament, is to hold talks in Brussels this week with prospective partners, Conservative sources ...

David Cameron comes a step closer to fulfilling his pledge that the Tories will leave the centre right grouping in the European Parliament.

David Cameron today expelled the Conservative party's former chief whip in the European parliament who has been found guilty of breaching Strasbourg rules. The parliament decided that Den Dover, who resigned as chief whip in June, had breached its rules and demanded that he pay back just over £500,000. Dover will face a fraud investigation by the EU's anti-fraud body, OLAF, into cl...

Conservative leader David Cameron today said he plans to give the Scottish Parliament more powers during the first term of a Tory government.

David Cameron said his Conservative party's move to create a new anti-federalist grouping in the European parliament would not fracture relations with other mainstream centre-right parties in Europe

One of David Cameron’s chief successes has been to marginalise Europe as an issue. But the expulsion of Edward McMillan-Scott MEP from the Conservative party, for refusing to withdraw allegations he made against Michal Kaminski, the leader of the controversial Eurosceptic grouping of which the Tories are members, has disinterred the fractious European problem. The Europhile McMillan-Scott la...

The European Parliament's centreright grouping has declared war on David Cameron and said a new Conservative government must not be allowed to derail the Lisbon Treaty.