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 ...

German MEP warns Tories of losing influence if they quit centre-right ranks David Cameron came under attack over his European policy last night when the president of the European parliament said that if it were put into effect it would be a "tragedy" for Britain and Europe which would leave a Conservative government with no influence in the EU. The intervention by Hans-Gert Pöttering came...

David Cameron faces a fresh uprising from grassroots Conservatives furious at his attempts to promote women.

President of the EPP Party Wilfried Martens has just upped the pressure on David Cameron by asking for a clear decision by April from the Tory leader as to whether the UK Conservatives will sit in the EPP-ED group in the European Parliament after the elections in June. This is at odds with the Cameron

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

It may have taken over 3 years, but David Cameron has finally delivered on his pledge to take the Conservative Party out of the federast EPP bloc. For such bold leadership - and for sticking to his guns when attacked by some of his own MEPs for doing so - David Cameron deserves the praise of all Eurosceptic Tories. The excellent Prague Declaration, formally launching the European Conservatives &am...

Tory leader's cycle taken from outside his west London home this morning David Cameron has had his bicycle stolen for the second time in less than a year, the Tories said today. The Tory leader had chained it to railings outside the front of his house, but when he went to look for it an hour later it was gone. Cameron, who always cycles into parliament on Wednesdays because he believes that t...

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...

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.