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In 2001, aged just 30, George Osborne was a newly elected member of the British parliament, the youngest on the Conservative benches, and was looking for people to staff his...

The UK's Secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs is a political survivor. Like the Conservative Party, Caroline Spelman has been on a journey. First...

Gordon Brown has improved his image in Europe. If any good comes out of the global financial crisis, it could be to bind the UK more closely to the European Union. Gordon...

The UK blocked at least ten crime-fighting measures as part of its continuing policy of non-co-operation following the EU's refusal to commit itself to lifting the worldwide...

Talk of Eurosceptic MEPs splitting from the European Parliament's centre-right EPP-ED group is resurfacing amid discontent over the EPP's pro-EU stance. Against the backdrop...

With the United Kingdom taking over the EU presidency from 1 July, Martin Banks profiles movers and shakers in Tony Blair's team

With his penchant for pinstripe suits, stockbroker background and public school education, Nigel Farage would appear to be very much an establishment figure. In truth, the...

A UK MEP at the centre of allegations about over-claimed travel expenses has hit back at his critics, claiming they want to discredit him ahead of next month's elections for...

IT IS open season against asylum-seekers, judging by some of the EU's leading politicians. Britain's Conservatives are making a tough anti-immigration policy one of the main...

The prize for the most bizarre Euro constituency being contested in next month's elections should perhaps go to Gibraltar, the UK's territory off the Spanish coast. The...

A TORY MEP who claimed too much on expenses to travel to a home which does not exist has handed back the money to the European Parliament, following an investigation by his...

IT WAS surely the oddest spectacle witnessed in the European Commission's Brussels headquarters for some time. Adopting an incongruously regal pose for a self-declared...

THE starting pistol will sound this weekend on the campaign trail for June's historic elections to the European Parliament, described by its President Pat Cox as “the...

THE UK's Conservative Party and others wary of EU integration were effectively offered a place in the European Parliament's biggest political group after the June elections,...

BERLIN-Prague relations could become severely strained if German centre-right MEPs carry out their threat to reject membership of the European Parliament's biggest group for...

JUST under three weeks ago, Michael Howard marked his 100th day as leader of the UK Conservative Party by outlining his vision on Europe. He impressed many of the British...

THE leader of the biggest party in the European Parliament, the European People's Party (EPP-ED) has struck a deal with the British Conservatives, allowing them to develop...

UK MEPS are celebrating a “great” result. No, not the fact that Iain Duncan Smith has been forced out of his job as Conservative Party leader or even that Michael Howard...

Mr 'Lite' with bite "MADAM, these are the teeth of a killer...this man must have meat or die." Such was the startling description of Iain Duncan Smith, new leader of the UK...

As the British Conservative Party prepares to unveil the results of its internal ballot on leader William Hague's policy towards the single currency, Tim Jones looks at how...