He has set out stringent red lines as the bare minimum to even consider staying in the EU. It’s hard to see the renegotiation securing them.
He also says UKIP has “tainted” the Out campaign, and predicts that the European Commission will “play dirty” with the referendum.
Ministers who want Brexit should be free to campaign for No during the referendum. And the Prime Minister should be free to get on with the renegotiation he wants.
In which I go campaigning with Grant Shapps’s brainchild, which has mobilised thousands of activists who would probably not have joined their local associations.
Tory MEPs could well decide later today to defy Angela Merkel – and form an alliance with Germany’s anti-euro party
Arise Lord Callanan of Gateshead?
Why I’ll have Nick Griffin on my show. Why I won’t have Mo Ansar on my show. And: the duplicity of Conservative MPs
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David Campbell Bannerman has been an MEP for the East of England since 2009. Last month he defected from the UK Independence Party to the Conservatives. It is perhaps appropriate my first article as a returned Conservative is for ConservativeHome, for I have received a genuinely warm welcome home. Before my seven years with UKIP […]
David Campbell Bannerman is a Conservative MEP for the Eastern Region. Follow David on Twitter. Recently I was informed that a UKIP Dorset branch had burnt me in effigy for returning to the Conservative Party. I was also physically threatened by a senior UKIP member. Neither was it easy or comfortable to let down good […]