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Revision as of 19:57, 27 April 2018

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A Eurosceptic political pressure group within the Conservative Party.

  • Original url not working, but is on archive.org, as at Oct.03.2016: Supporters

Conservatives for Britain (CfB) was founded in Jun.2015, shortly after GE-2015. It was initially formed to "forge a new relationship between Britain and the EU based on free trade and friendly co-operation, rather than political union". The objective was to formally pressure[1] David Cameron in his efforts to re-negotiate EU membership terms. The CfB warned that it would support "Leave" in the forthcoming referendum.[2]

In Oct.2015, CfB unequivocally announced its support for the Vote Leave campaign, should the European Union not back the fundamental changes demanded – in denial of its earlier statements that it was not a "nascent out campaign".[3]

Aims

In Feb.2016, CfB's "About" page held the following statement:

Conservatives for Britain is the campaign representing the large number of Conservative Party supporters who want to see a new relationship between Britain and the EU based on free trade and friendly co-operation, rather than political union.

We are supported by thousands of Conservative Party councillors, members and supporters from all parts of the United Kingdom.

Conservatives for Britain originally launched in Jun.2015 to help underscore the Prime Minister’s renegotiation and maximise the chance of fundamental change being delivered. Now that this process has resulted in only minor reforms, we are fully supporting the Vote Leave campaign in advocating a 'leave' vote in the forthcoming EU referendum.

We take an optimistic, globalist view of Britain’s future. We believe that Britain will both increase its global influence and be economically successful by taking back control from the EU.

As we predicted at our launch in June, the EU has let us down so we will stand up for Britain. The EU is an institution rooted in the past and is proving incapable of reforming to meet the big technological, demographic and economic challenges of our time.

— Michael Gove, Feb.2016


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References

  1. ^ 'Conservatives for Britain' pressure PM over EU talks. BBC News, Jun.07.2015.
  2. ^ 50 Tories plot Britain's exit from EU. Tim Ross, The Telegraph, Jun.06.2015.
  3. ^ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named cfb-2015.10.08