Sentence examples for mep colleagues from inspiring English sources

"My MEP colleagues and I went through a rigorous interview process, better than the Tories' which I also went through, and now that is showing in our spokesmen," she says.

The statement said: "It has become clear I do not have sufficient authority, nor the full support of MEP colleagues and party officers, to implement the changes I believe are necessary and upon which I based my campaign".

In a sign of the turmoil that has engulfed Ukip since her predecessor Nigel Farage resigned, she said: "It has become clear I do not have sufficient authority, nor the full support of MEP colleagues and party officers to implement the changes I believe are necessary and upon which I based my campaign".

She wrote: "It has become clear that I do not have sufficient authority nor the full support of all my MEP colleagues and party officers to implement changes I believe necessary and upon which I based my campaign," also citing "personal and professional reasons".

Ms James said in her resignation statement sent to The Times newspaper: "It has become clear that I do not have sufficient authority, nor the full support of all my MEP colleagues and party officers to implement changes I believe necessary and upon which I based my campaign.

Almunia soon came under pressure from commission colleagues, MEPs and senior German and French ministers, who criticised plans to settle with Google and urged him to reconsider.

His party colleague and new fellow MEP Janice Atkinson said her own mantra in Brussels would be "No and no and no".

"I wish the party well for the future under new leadership". Ms James becomes the second high-profile party figure to quit UKIP in recent weeks, after her fellow MEP Steven Woolfe resigned after a confrontation with a colleague in Strasbourg.

They don't take it seriously". Across the political spectrum, ethnic minority MEPs struggle to get colleagues interested in campaigning for a parliament that is roughly reflective of the ethnic mix of Europe's people.

Speaking outside the hospital on Friday, another UKIP MEP, Nathan Gill insisted his colleague was in "good form" and there was no danger to his health even though "it was at one stage touch and go".

The UKIP leader made a few jokes - but it was an earnest, and at times, impassioned battle of wits between two politicians who, despite being former colleagues as MEPs in Brussels, are diametrically opposed on the European Union.