David Vaiani (08/11/09) David Cameron performs an uncomfortable U-turn. David Davis writes an article that goes against party policy. Daniel Hannan and Roger Helmer resign from their frontbench posts. Suddenly, all hell breaks loose, as the media claim that the Tories are, once again, split straight down the middle over the issue of Europe. It’s [...]
The biggest problem for the Conservatives in Europe:
Jenny Riddell (7/11/09) I don’t often like Iain Dale, but his interview in this month’s Total Politics with Michal Kaminski (on the left), the Polish MEP and head of the Conservative and Reformist group in the EU, was quite frankly -fantastic. He clearly has little time for this man, and neither do I. To [...]
Milliband 0 – 2 Hague
Siobhan Gabriella Gibney (05/11/09) Foreign Secretary Miliband has been dealt two harsh and public blows by Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague this week. The first involves Blair’s candidacy for European Council President. Although he has yet to publicly confirm that he wants the job (likely just to save himself from potential humiliation), Miliband and even [...]
Finally its Over
Patrick Hogan (05/11/09) With the Czech constitutional court casting aside Vaclav Klaus’s last-ditch challenge to the Lisbon Treaty Europe can now move beyond the tiresome navel-gazing that characterized these two years since the first Irish ‘No’ vote and finally set about implementing the treaty’s much-needed reforms…..[continue reading]
