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Saturday, May 10, 2008 --- 76 days ago http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3239
| In the aftermath of Labour's humiliation at the polls last week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been putting himself about on the broadcast media. And a disconcerting experience it is too. He did a soft interview with Fern Britton on ITV's Good Morning'. It is worth watching, if only to reinforce the sense that Gordon Brown is, in fact, a rather weird individual. Meanwhile attention begins to focus on David Cameron, the leader of the British Conservative Party. The most interesting snippet of the week is a brief but undoubtedly intriguing aside concerning Conservative policy on the EU contained in a Spectator blog session of reader's questions to Cameron:
That Pesky Lisbon Treaty
* Will you put the EU constitution, er sorry EU reform treaty to a public referendum? If that referendum rejects the treaty will you withdraw from it? (Mike, 9.27am) * What is the Tory policy on Europe? (batman, 11.58am) * What will he do with the Lisbon Treaty if the tories win the general election after it has already entered into force? (Francisco Mendes da Silva, 12.00pm)
Cameron is studiously tight-lipped on this. Any discussion could draw the party into a maelstrom at a time when unity is needed. But one theory, which I have now heard from two Shadow Cabinet members, is that the Conservatives would insert in their manifesto a pledge to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union and then hold a refe ... |
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