David Cameron, the Conservative leader, unveiled the membership of the new alliance his party is forming in the European Parliament, after breaking away from the mainstream centre-right European People's Party in protest at its federalist approach

Today I wish to praise Mark Francois. The Shadow Europe Minister has worked hard to create an anti federalist grouping in the European Parliament. He has helped David Cameron implement his vision of Conservative MEPs providing an opposition to “ever closer union” and the remorseless march of power

With what would appear to be extremely prescient timing, last night's Newsnight featured a film about progress on David Cameron's pledge to take Conservative MEPs out of the federalist EPP in the European Parliament. Their reporter, David Grossman, has written...

Establishing a new conservative, anti-Lisbon and anti-federalist group in the European Parliament will not weaken the European People's Party, Geoffrey Van Orden, a leading Conservative MEP told EurActiv in a telephone interview.

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...

When a Conservative candidate for the European Parliament called the NHS a mistake it was bound to cause offence. It also reminds us just what kind of people sit behind David Cameron in the Conservative Party. Now John Prescott has intervened in the debate. He’s calling on David Cameron to back of sack Daniel Hannan. My

The BBC reports this morning that  group of “Tory Grandees” is issuing a broadside against David Cameron’s plans to take Conservative MEPs out of the ultra-federalist EPP group in the European parliament.   I have urged this policy within the Party, and within the delegation, since I was elected in 1999.  It is simply intolerable for a

Conservative leader says he wants people with no background in Tory politics to consider standing as candidates for parliament David Cameron today hinted at a desire to clear out the Conservative old guard when he said he wanted people with no background in Tory politics to consider standing for parliament as Conservative MPs. In a move that suggests he feels the modernisation of the Conservative ...

Today the polls are open to vote for your Members of the European Parliament. You might not think that this is important but there are a few good reasons why it is worth turning up to your polling station and voting Conservative. Tim Montgomerie on Conservative Home covers it well:- Vote Conservative because it's the vote that Labour fears most.Vote Conservative because of David Cameron'...

David Cameron has suffered the biggest ever Conservative revolt over Europe as more than 80 Conservative MPs defied his orders and backed a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union.