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It is official

The Tories will NOT hold a referendum on Lisbon but seek a 'manifesto mandate' to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU - so says Conservative Home in a shock announcement. And I am shocked, shocked, I tell you.So where do we go from here? Or to be quite precise, where does the Conservat...

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EU Referendum — November 01

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Updates

The latest in Iceland, that presidency and what exactly did the EU agree to in order to get President Klaus's signature, over on Your Freedom and Ours. ...

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EU Referendum — October 31

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We don't do comedy

But, if we did, it would look a bit like this. Chris Bryant in the Independent on Sunday writing about Dave Cameron's problems on "Europe"."Such is the visceral anti-Europeanism in his party," Bryant writes, "ever since he became leader of the Tories he's had to keep on ...

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EU Referendum — October 31

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A politician's word

Paul Waugh in his blog, for the Evening Standard confirms that which we have been long expecting – that the Tory leader is to announce that he will abandon his own pledge for a referendum.Waugh thus reminds us of the pledge David Cameron gave us, in The Sun in September 2007:Today, I will g...

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EU Referendum — October 31

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"Over my dead body"

The Daily Mail is running a piece today which reveals that Lt-Col Thorneloe wrote a secret memo, a month before he was killed by an IED while riding in a Viking, complaining of the shortage of helicopters.On June 5, reports the Mail, he had chillingly predicted the circumstances of his own death...

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EU Referendum — October 30

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Playing games

After three weeks of media exclusion, the Pakistani Army lifted a corner of the veil on Thursday, flying in a group of journalists to a barren hilltop in deepest South Waziristan, to explain how swimmingly well the campaign was going.It was duly rewarded with favourable headlines, such as is in T...

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EU Referendum — October 30