Far-right Tories (UK) battle for soul of Conservative Party

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jan/09/conservatives-tories-coalition-cameron-clegg

Tory rightwingers are growing uneasy and increasingly vocal about what they see as concessions by David Cameron to his Lib Dem coalition partners

The issues to be debated on Europe are hugely important in themselves, they say. Conservative MPs of all ages are angry that the bill fails to deliver proper safeguards against future transfers of sovereignty to Brussels, as were promised in the Conservative election manifesto. "It is a disgrace. This bill does not do what it says on the tin," says one enraged sceptic.

Harry Phibbs, a Tory on Hammersmith and Fulham council who backs the coalition, says the worry is greatest on Europe. But even on matters such as spending cuts, most Conservatives would want the government to go even further than the coalition will allow. "Probably most Conservatives would favour an even tougher approach on public spending, rather than putting up taxes such as VAT," he says.

In the Commons, the Tory whips have so far kept a lid on rightwing unrest. That is partly because the parliament is young and the right these days is a fairly disparate group. It is united by Euroscepticism – but the new intake is more socially liberal than the older generation and wary of teaming up with old-style traditionalists from the pre-Cameron era.

Sounds like the far right of the Conservative Party want even deeper budget cuts than the government has proposed and is passionate about preventing further integration of the UK into the EU.