The East Midlands new local Conservative MEP, Emma McClarkin, is warning that taxpayers face an increase of 60 percent in their EU budget contributions – to around £260 per household – thanks to Labour’s bumbling negotiating stance in 2005 over the EU budget. When Labour Ministers – including Gordon Brown – negotiated the EU’s budget …Continue Reading
Archive for 2009
Rugby Mad MEP welcomes World Cup
29th July, 2009East Midlands Conservative MEP, Emma McClarkin, who is the Spokesperson for Culture and Education commented today about England’s World Cup bid; “I am absolutely thrilled to bits that England have won the bid to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup. It will provide an excellent platform for sport in the whole of the UK, as …Continue Reading
East Midlands MEP youngest to be sworn in
14th July, 2009East Midlands Conservative MEP, Emma McClarkin, is the youngest MEP (at the age of just 30) in the country to be sworn into office today. Miss McClarkin was elected in June to the European Parliament, and despite being the youngest member to represent the UK she is determined to sort Europe out from the inside. …Continue Reading
Cameron delivers in Brussels
24th June, 2009Fulfilling a promise made in his leadership campaign three years ago, David Cameron has pulled his Conservative MEPs out of the federalist European People’s Party Group in the European Parliament, and formed an entirely new grouping, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). The new Group’s constitutive meeting this morning was attended by East Midlands MEPs …Continue Reading