Bill Cash

Bill Cash is the Member of Parliament for Stone and has been a member of the House of Commons European Select Committee since 1985. He was Chairman of the Conservative Backbench Committee of European Affairs 1988-91.

In January 1991 he was requested by the Foreign Secretary to write the Paper on European Policy for the Conservative Manifesto Committee (published in Visions of Europe, Duckworth 1993) in advance of what became the Maastricht Intergovernmental Conference. Bill declined a Government position in 1991, choosing instead to orchestrate opposition to the Maastricht Treaty and founding the Maastricht Referendum Campaign.

Bill has lectured on European affairs all over the world and, in 1998, addressed the College Republicans' AGM in Florida on the subject of Europe and America. Sponsored by the US Government, Bill toured the length and breadth of the country speaking to businessmen and administrators about political and constitutional change in Europe. Bill was voted Parliamentary Campaigner of the Year 1991 by an independent panel of journalists.

Publications

Bill Cash has authored several pamphlets and books on the European issue, any of which can be purchased by written request at the European Foundation. Listed below are some of the most popular.

Associated, Not Absorbed - The Associated European Area: A constructive alternative to a single European State by Bill Cash MP (European Foundation, September 2000).

Britain and Europe: Challenging questions for Tony Blair, Kenneth Clarke and Michael Heseltine (European Foundation, 1999).

Are we Winning on Europe? (European Foundation, 1998).

The Blue Paper: A response to the Government White Paper (European Foundation, 1995).

Against a Federal Europe: The Battle for Britain (Duckworth, 1991).

A Democratic Way to European Unity: Arguments Against Federalism (Bow Group, 1990).

The European Foundation website also has many of Bill Cash's articles from back issues of the European Journal. He has written many articles in The Times, Telegraph, and other newspapers and periodicals on the subject of Europe - and continues to write on the subject. Please contact the Foundation for more information.