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 | | The whole of the EDD Group had done even better, employing over fifty group staff yet, when it came to the Conservatives within the 267-member EPP, with more than two times the number of MEPs than the entire EDD group, their dedicated group staff amounted to a meagre seven. |
 | | With the deposition of IDS and his replacement by Howard, however, the plan for a new grouping was kicked into touch, with a paper thin charade arranged to "legitimise" the continued Conservative membership of the EPP, by pretending that, somehow, the MEPs were "associated" though a sub-grouping known as EPP-ED. |
 | | Even Mark Mardell, the Beeb's Europe editor, thought that, tactically it was a "brilliant move" by Cameron and when David Davis refused to follow suit, many of the Eurosceptic MEPs – not least Daniel Hannan - lined up behind Cameron. |
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