South East MEP Daniel Hannan has made another speech, on the sovereignty of national parliaments. Mr Hannan ends almost every speech with the words: “Pactio Olisipiensis Censenda Est” – “The Lisbon Treaty must be Put to the Vote”. He tells me this is in homage to Cato the Elder who would end his speeches with […]
The European Parliament has just voted to ban (with a few exemptions) seal products from Canada. South East MEP Daniel Hannan (who thinks that such decisions should be made by national parliaments) has commented on his blog: “What is it about baby seals? Why do they excite our sympathy in a way that seagulls or […]
South East England MEP Daniel Hannan had made another speech, this time on the financial crisis, and invoked the Bard. It seems most readers will be pleased to note that Mr Hannan was dressed in a suit and tie! (Although his colleague Roger Helmer went tieless.) And I promise that this is the last sartorial […]
We recently featured a tieless Dan Hannan in action in the European Parliament but his open neck casual look would be against the rules in the House of Commons. The Telegraph reports that Labour MP Graham Allen "was criticised by Sir Alan Haselhurst, the Deputy Speaker, because although he was wearing a suit, his shirt […]
Yesterday South East England MEP Daniel Hannan addressed the Strasbourg Parliament on the subject of justice. Here is his typically eloquent speech. I was delighted to see the absence of neckties in the chamber. Perhaps the UK Parliament could follow suit and dispense with the preposterous notion that a man is ill-attired if he doesn’t […]
Update: Daniel Hannan is also outraged at the democratic deficit. Alan Duncan, Shadow Leader of the House at Business Questions, and Anne Main, Julie Kirkbride and Christopher Chope later, all pressed yesterday for full parliamentary scrutiny of the Bank of England’s momentous decision to start printing £75bn of extra banknotes: Alan Duncan: "Why are we […]
Daniel Hannan – MEP for South East England – has spoken out on EU hypocrisy over climate change. Mr Hannan is to be highly commended for managing to combine doggedness with elegance – it is easy for people who are sound on Europe to be frightful bores (and boors). It is well worth watching his […]
Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP for the South East, made a splendid speech yesterday about how the growth of "EU human rights" is crowding out democracy. The European Parliament has passed a resolution on human rights, which Mr Hannan describes as: "a litany of nagging demands about abortion law, same-sex unions, the status of asylum […]
Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan has just posted on his Telegraph blog: "I don’t know whether this is a first, but I’m blogging from the chamber of the European Parliament. Addressing the session is – I promise I’m not making this up – the "UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations", a former Portuguese president." […]
Dan Hannan is an MEP for the South East and blogs for The Telegraph. Is there anyone out there who just happens to support deeper European integration? Without being paid to say so, I mean? I ask the question perfectly seriously. When he introduced the Bill to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, the Foreign Secretary, David […]
Daniel Hannan is an MEP for the South East and blogs at Telegraph.co.uk. Some of you may find this hard to believe, but I’m going to miss Christopher Beazley. The pro-euro MEP has decided not to seek re-nomination – mainly, he says, because he disagrees with the Conservative Party’s commitment to leave the European People’s […]
Daniel Hannan, MEP for the South East and a blogger, criticises the EU restrictions on livestock exports as being for commercial rather than scientific reasons. At long last, the EU is to lift the restrictions imposed on British livestock exports: a campaign I have been worrying away at for weeks. So far, so good. But, […]
Daniel Hannan is an MEP and one of the founders of Direct Democracy. I have found it: the philosopher’s stone of politics, the elixir of life. There really is an answer to the West Lothian Question. Twenty nine years have passed since Tam Dalyell, the stony Old Etonian who then sat for West Lothian, set […]
Daniel Hannan is a Conservative MEP and regular ConservativeHome contributor. Tim Kevan has been a barrister for just under 10 years and was national chairman of the Conservative Students from 1993 to 1994. As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the passing of the original legislation for the NHS and the institution stumbles from one […]
Daniel Hannan MEP blogs here. British Conservatives can be proud today: ours is the first Group in the European Parliament to elect an MEP from an accession state as its leader. None of the Groups which drone on about their commitment to the European ideal can claim as much. Michal Kaminski, of Poland’s Law and […]