Times are tough for UK politicians in Brussels following David Cameron’s controversial use of the UK veto to opt-out of a key EU treaty and no one knows this better than Sharon Bowles, the Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament for South East England.

As chair of the European Parliament's economic and monetary affairs committee, Bowles is arguably the UK's foremost representative in Europe at a time when the UK's credibility on the continent is at an all-time low.