Conservative / EPP-ED MEP Martin Callanan responded in that paper the following day:

In 2009, the Conservatives won 26 seats in the European Parliament, which increased to 27 in 2011 due to defection by a UK Independence Party MEP, reducing back down to 26 when a Conservative moved to UKIP.

Currently, Scotland returns two Labour MEPs, two Conservative MEPs, two SNP MEPs and one Liberal Democrat MEP, to the European Parliament.

The local MP is the Conservative Geoffrey Cox and the MEP local aristocrat Tory Giles Chichester.

Scotland returned two Labour MEPs, two SNP MEPs, one Conservative and Unionist MEP and one Liberal Democrat MEP, to the European Parliament.

The party received an endorsement in The Independent from writer A. N. Wilson, as well as support from Paul Howell, who was a speech writer for Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath and a Conservative MEP, and Anthony Meyer, the " stalking horse " candidate against Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

The CDA fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 2002 was addressed by Roger Knapman, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party ; Ashley Mote, prominent UKIP MEP and author of " Overcrowded Britain-Our Immigration Crisis Exposed " ( 2004 ); John Gouriet, a founder with Norris McWhirter of the Freedom Association alongside Derek Turner, editor of Right Now!

He was a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) from 1979 to 1984 and Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wantage from 1983 to 2005, having been elected as a Conservative ; however, he joined the Labour Party in 2005.

Currently, Scotland returns two Labour MEPs, two Conservative and Unionist MEPs, two SNP MEPs and one Liberal Democrat MEP, to the European Parliament.

He was the Conservative Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for Birmingham North, then Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Mid Worcestershire and finally Bromley and Chislehurst at his death.

An Oxford branch was set up ( under Roland Smith ) with links to Oxford University's growing Eurosceptic movement led by student activist and future Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan.

Bercow was re-elected, and in second place with 10, 331 votes was John Stevens, a former Conservative MEP who campaigned as an independent accompanied by " Flipper the Dolphin " ( a reference to MPs flipping second homes ).

William Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood MEP DL, usually called Richard Inglewood ( born 31 July 1951 ) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

The region is currently represented by Labour MEP, Stephen Hughes, Conservative MEP, Martin Callanan and Liberal Democrat MEP Fiona Hall.

Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope defended Kaminski saying his remarks were taken out of context.

She was criticised by Daniel Hannan, a British Conservative MEP, saying that she had " no background in trade issues at a time when the EU is engaged in critical negotiations with Canada, Korea and the WTO ".

James Glyn Ford MEP went even further by announcing at the 1993 Labour Party Conference: " The Tories have a far-Right tendency .... I have passed details of the Revolutionary Conservative Caucus to Special Branch ".

He was a Conservative MEP for Wight & Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984 and is former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission.

He was a Conservative Party MEP from 1979 to 1994 for Lincolnshire.

After a spell out of the Parliament, he was re-elected a Conservative MEP for the East Midlands in 1999.

He was elected to the European Parliament in 1999 as a Conservative Party MEP, and re-elected in 2004 and 2009.

Other friends included Daily Telegraph editor Colin Coote, MI5 head Roger Hollis, Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt, Conservative MP Geoffrey Nicholson, infamous slumlord Peter Rachman, and the actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

The Liberals, led by Roger Grimes, were soundly defeated by the Danny Williams-led Progressive Conservative Party, who took almost three-quarters of the seats in the House of Assembly and well over half of the popular vote.

As a nineties Conservative Ministerial remark, it was on a par with that of Roger Freeman, another ' approachable Tory '.

He won the Kettering seat in the 1997 election, defeating Conservative Cabinet minister, Roger Freeman.

He unsuccessfully contested Stroud at the 1992 general election, but was defeated by the incumbent Conservative, Roger Knapman by 13, 405 votes.

Although sometimes labeled fascist according to historian Roger Eatwell: " Most of its 2000-3000 active members were Colonel Blimpish rather than fascist: in fact many of its members saw it as a Conservative ginger group ... an attempt to keep the Conservatives true to the Imperial way.

He unsuccessfully contested Kettering at the 1992 General Election where he came second to the sitting Conservative Party transport minister Roger Freeman by 11, 154 votes.

In March 2012, Tapsell was reported as being one of the Conservative MPs to have spoken critically of Party Co-Chairman Sayeeda Warsi at a meeting of the 1922 Committee, following Warsi's handling of Roger Helmer MEP's defection to UKIP.

Jeremy Roger Evans ( born 1964 ) is a Conservative Party politician and member of the London Assembly for Havering and Redbridge.

Since 1983, the Member of Parliament for North Thanet, covering northern Thanet and Herne Bay, has been the Conservative, Roger Gale.

Other council members include Conservative MPs Christopher Chope, Philip Davies, Robert Halfon, Philip Hollobone, Gerald Howarth, John Whittingdale, and Andrew Rosindell, Conservative MEPs Daniel Hannan and Roger Helmer, former Conservative MSP Brian Monteith, and former leader of UKIP Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch.

In March 2012, Heaton-Harris was reported as being one of the Conservative MPs to have spoken critically of Party Co-Chairman Sayeeda Warsi at a meeting of the 1922 Committee, following Warsi's handling of Roger Helmer MEP's defection to UKIP.

* Thomas Andrews MP, Leader of the Conservative Party, Prime Minister before Harry Perkins-played by Roger Brierley

Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, PC ( born 25 February 1934 ) is a British Conservative Party politician and a former Secretary of State for Wales.

Sir Roger Keyes, Conservative Member of Parliament for a constituency in the naval town of Portsmouth, a naval hero of World War I and an Admiral of the Fleet no longer on the active list, spoke on the conduct of naval operations, particularly the abortive operations to retake Trondheim.

Fred Harris had three children with his first wife – Roger who became an engineer in Kenya, Gillian, who also moved to East Africa, and Jacqueline who worked as secretary to the Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party.

The book has ample source notes and was well received by some eurosceptic or conservative commentators, including philosopher Roger Scruton, Lord Rees-Mogg, economist Lord Ralph Harris, historian Hugo Vickers, and British Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan.

Sir Roger Keyes was elected Member of Parliament ( MP ) for North Portsmouth as a Conservative in January 1934.

North Thanet has been held consistently by the Conservative Party, with Sir Roger Gale representing the constituency since its creation in 1983.

Roger ran for a seat in the House of Commons in the federal election of 1962, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative Laurier Regnier by 2, 601 votes in the federal riding of St. Boniface.

Roger was re-elected over Progressive Conservative candidate Harry DeLeeuw in 1965 but, in 1968, he unexpectedly lost the Liberal nomination for St. Boniface to Joseph-Philippe Guay.