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Davis challenges Cameron with call for EU referendum

Source: guardian.co.uk Politics

Nov 04, 2009

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Tory leader's former rival calls for wider plebiscite as Cameron prepares to set out new policy on Europe after dropping pledge on Lisbon treaty

David Cameron today faced a challenge to his authority when the former shadow home secretary David Davis urged him commit himself to holding a referendum on Britain's relationship with the EU within three months of taking office.

Davis set out his proposals in an article in the Daily Mail ahead of a speech by Cameron this afternoon which the Tory leader will use to outline plans to repatriate some powers from Brussels as part of a toughening of Britain's relations with the EU.

Amid anger on the right of the Conservative party at his decision to abandon a "cast-iron guarantee" to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty hours after the Czech Republic ratified it, Cameron will say he is prepared for a battle with the EU.

But he is unlikely to go as far as Davis, who said that a referendum should be "the first piece of legislation in the new parliament".

Davis, Cameron's main rival for the Tory leadership in 2005, said the par

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