Principles
  • We support the UK’s membership of the EU and oppose withdrawal to the margins; we support positive and constructive engagement with the EU as the only sensible approach and as vital to our national interests.
  • We support a vision of a prosperous free-market Europe able to compete in a globalised world.
  • We support economic liberalisation and oppose excessive EU regulation, centralisation and red tape.
  • We support institutional reform, further cooperation between EU member states where it is in Britain's interests and oppose old-fashioned federalism.
  • We support the enlargement of the EU including Turkey, and recognise the benefits that the recent wave of enlargement have brought.