In yet another sign of Cameron's flight from the centre ground, Yorkshire and the Humber MEP Edward McMillan-Scott left the Conservative party for the Liberal Democrats after a long running battle over Britain's future in Europe.
Many of us will have been acutely embarrassed by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage's televised tirade against EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy.
David Cameron's insistence on leaving the Conservative EPP group in the European Parliament for a ragtag mix of far right extremists has had unforeseen consequences, undermining Tory councillors at the Committee of the Regions (CoR).
Liberal Democrat Spring Conference has backed plans to increase the threshold at which people start paying income tax from current levels to £10,000.
The President of the European Parliament has used new powers to dock the allowances of UKIP MEP Nigel Farage, who refused to apologise for gratuitously insulting the new President of the European Council, thanks to an initiative taken in the last parliament by Lib Dem MEP Graham Watson to ensure that such powers existed.
The President of the European Parliament has used new powers to dock the allowances of UKIP MEP Nigel Farage, who refused to apologise for gratuitously insulting the new President of the European Council, thanks to an initiative taken in the last parliament by Lib Dem MEP Graham Watson to ensure that such powers existed.