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Cameron reveals new EU policy

Source: observer.guardian.co.uk

Nov 04, 2009

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Rolling coverage as the Tory leader outlines his revised Europe policy after dropping his pledge to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty

3.45pm: This is big stuff. For the last few years David Cameron has been able to assert his Eurosceptic credentials by promising a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. His party has been united behind him. But that policy has now collapsed and Cameron is about to announce an alternative.

This speech could decide the nature of Britain's relationship with the EU for the next five or 10 years. As David Davis has already made clear today, the Tory right want Cameron to play hardball.

He's probably not going to give them what they want. But he's about to make some commitments which, if he wins the election, will determine how he deals with Britain's most important trading partners. We're about to find out what they are.

Andrew Sparrow

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