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Zahradil, an acolyte of eurosceptic Czech leader Vaclav Klaus (Photo: zahradil.eu)

UK Tories lose leadership of parliament group

by Leigh Phillips, Brussels,

A Czech climate sceptic, Jan Zahradil, has won the leadership of the UK Tories' political grouping in the European Parliament, defeating a moderate British Conservative.

The British centre-right has again lost out the chief position in their ideological vehicle, the European Conservatives and Reformists, that broke away from the main centre-right and Chrisitian-Democrat-dominated political family, the European People's Party, in 2009, out of frustration at its support for European feder...

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Zahradil, an acolyte of eurosceptic Czech leader Vaclav Klaus (Photo: zahradil.eu)

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