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...
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PoliticsEtc on 13th Mar 2010 (via sgspolitics.blogspot.com)
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
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LabourMatters on 25th Sep 2008 (via labourmatters.com)
THE Maltese are ten times more influential at the heart of the Europe Union than the British, a Scottish MEP has claimed.
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Scotsman on 16th Jun 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
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.
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TheIndependent on 13th Nov 2008 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
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.
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EurActiv on 2nd Jun 2009 (via euractiv.com)
A senior Tory MEP recently expelled from the Conservative Party for opposing the embrace of questionable right-wing groups in Europe, spills the beans in an exclusive interview in The Sunday Telegraph: “Mr McMillan-Scott, referring to the Downing Street spin doctor who was dismissed for spreading rumours about the private lives of senior Tories, said: “There
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LabourMatters on 19th Sep 2009 (via labourmatters.com)
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...
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LabourParty on 11th May 2009 (via labour.org.uk)
The Conservative party last night took a major step towards reversing almost two decades of allegiance in Europe when William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, went to the European parliament in Strasbourg to sever links with the mainstream centre-right parties of the EU. Ahead of European parliament elections in June, Hague and the Tories' Europe spokesman, Mark Francois, met Joseph Daul,...
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Guardian on 12th Mar 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
A new Conservative MEP representing the West Midlands will start work at the European Parliament next week.
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BBCPolitics on 1st Dec 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
A SENIOR MEP has been expelled from the Conservative Party after a row over its controversial new alliance in the European Parliament.
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Scotsman on 15th Sep 2009 (via news.scotsman.com)
Tory MEPs have this morning published their expenses for the last quarter of 2008. Timothy Kirkhope MEP comments:“Conservative MEPs are the first British delegation in the European Parliament to voluntarily publish details of our allowances and expenses. I hope that...
