As we enter a crucial month, a grim choice faces Conservative Eurosceptics.
For Scotland as much as for England, the UK is the Single Market that matters most.
This is a simple question of where and how our national interest is best pursued.
I campaigned and voted for being a member of the Common Market. But it has since become clear that the EU project is about politics more than economics.
Anything short of this is of secondary importance.
In “Hard Bargains or Weak Compromises”, Dr Lee Rotherham and I probe whether association rather than membership would be best for Britain.
But he remains our best chance of getting an In/Out referendum.
He contends that we have become “a classless society” – and will set out in his election address his demands for our EU renegotiation.
Yes, it is essential to make some reforms. But others can be made without it – and here are nine examples.
Ed Miliband’s big speech on the EU saw him travel far – but in a circle. He’s back where he started.
Were it not for our differences over the EU, the country whose team won the World Cup yesterday could be our closest allies in Europe.
“Common rules don’t mean that every market stall needs to look the same.”
If he wants Britain to stay in, he needs a programme which can both address concerns here and win support abroad.
Or: Why I regard myself as a “mercantilist free trader”.
It has the capacity to ensure that the UK gets the best of both worlds.