The Inspiration of Lady Thatcher

Sally McNamara / June 24, 2009

In a small, but hugely significant move, leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, David Cameron, has formally constituted a new parliamentary grouping in the European Parliament. The ‘European Conservatives and Reformists Group’ is the first European parliamentary party dedicated to a model of European governance that protects national sovereignty. Already comprised of 55 MEP’s from eight member states, the ECR includes former ministers of state and is set to become Parliament’s fourth largest grouping.

The British Conservative Party secured a crushing defeat of Gordon Brown’s governing Labour Party in European elections earlier this month. In fact, Labour suffered their worst (more…)