Ed Balls, second in command at the British Treasury, said opposition leader David Cameron is the Conservative Party's most `anti-European' leader ever,
Eh?
Lets look at this with a historical perspective.
Micheal Howard - more scep
Iain Duncan Smith
William Hague
Margaret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
Balfour
Bonar Law
Salisbury
Disreali
Canning
Castlereagh (Edit: OK, so he was the leader of the House)
Wellington
Pitt (plural)
and that is just for starters
Where does the Labour party get these people?
Wellington
Thursday, November 02, 2006
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I don't think that Castlereagh ever led the Conservative Party.
He was leader of the House of Commons if that counts
Fair point, I guess that should be Liverpool, could include Addington and Perceval. Palmertone, though very sound and a Tory, was a Liberal so that doesn't count
Didn't Canning shoot Castlereagh in the arse? Same views about Europe, but just couldn't get along otherwise.
Isn't that just typically Eurosceptic.
:-)
Palmerston was elected as a Tory and served in Tory and Whig governments before becoming Prime Minister.
I think that it was Castlereagh who shot Canning. Canning didn't know which end of a pistol was which and missed.
I always thought that Canning was a bit wishy-washy on Europe. He didn't even want to send troops into Belgium. Typical Foreign Office!
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