David Cameron has been accused of leading the Conservatives out of mainstream European politics and joining forces with “a rag-bag of extremist parties” after succeeding in forming a new, anti-federalist group in the European parliament.

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

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

We are only two months from the European elections, to be followed by the forming of the (new) political groups in the European Parliament. In the United Kingdom, the House of Commons Library has published a standard note authored by Vaughne Miller on the political groups in the European Parliament. European Parliament Political Groups (SN/IA/5031; 26 March 2009; 10 pages) offers a brief view of t...

The European Parliament's newest group, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), was formally established yesterday (22 June), spearheaded by the British Conservatives. While leading Tories hailed the break-up of the EU's centre-right "federalist cartel", others warned about the group's "ideological isolationism" and limited chances of success.

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

The Conservatives’ new “anti-federalist” political group in the European Parliament will be a powerful force for change, it has been claimed.

Oh dear. How must David Cameron rue the day he caved into his party’s right-wing and promised to withdraw the Tories from the centre-right EPP in the European Parliament and establish a new anti-federalist right-wing grouping. At the time it was a last-gasp roll of the dice solely calaculated to pep up his then faltering

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

David Cameron is simply not credible as reform champion Dear Sir, So David Cameron thinks that suddenly we will believe he intends genuine political reform? I'm sorry, but the Conservatives have been on the wrong side of any political reform for their entire history as a political party. The clue is in their name. Mr Cameron may think that simply because he has proved more popular than his immedia...