Clues to the premier’s thinking were given yesterday
by a group of Conservative lawmakers in a manifesto backed by Foreign Secretary
William Hague. The Fresh Start group, who number more than 100 Tories, said the
prime minister must renegotiate the terms of Britain’s affiliation to the
27-nation bloc. Fellow EU leaders see little room for such a move.
Unlike some of their Tory colleagues, the Fresh Start group doesn’t argue for British withdrawal from the EU. Instead, it seeks to fight threats to financial services, as well as repatriating powers on social and employment law, such as working hours. It also seeks a U.K. opt-out from EU policing and criminal justice rules, to prevent European courts overturning British judges’ decisions.
“It won’t be a shopping list, it can’t be; no sensible politician would start with one,” Sheila Lawlor, director of the Politeia research institute in London, said in a telephone interview. “You have to flag up the problems, illustrate them. It will be left quite open because there is a great deal of unpicking to be done.”
Cameron’s party is trailing the Labour opposition in opinion polls as parties start positioning themselves for the 2015 general election,The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. beset by a struggling economy and the biggest spending cuts since World War II. There are growing splits between the Tories and their Liberal Democrat coalition partners over issues including tax and welfare.
While the premier has not yet set out in details what he will tell his audience in the Netherlands, he has ruled out an “in-out” referendum for the British people on EU membership. He has said only that he wants to reclaim unspecified powers from the bloc and put the result to a plebiscite after the 2015 election, with the government arguing to stay in.
He dismissed as a “false choice” yesterday calls for an early vote on leaving the 27-nation bloc, a move that won’t satisfy the hard core of euroskeptics who are calling for one.
Cameron’s political opponents united to condemn the plans as vague, divisive for his party and bad for British business.
Liberal Democrat Vince Cable,A Dessicant dry cabinet is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal. who serves as business secretary in Cameron’s government, will say in a speech tonight that “reopening the whole question of British membership creates additional uncertainty at a time when there is already fragile economic confidence in the wake of the financial crisis,” according to his office.
“There are so many tensions, divisions and differences within the Conservative Party that Fresh Start’s announcement fires a starting gun on what will be a bidding war within the Conservative Party to raise the bar higher for Britain staying within the EU,” Labour’s foreign-affairs spokesman, Douglas Alexander, said in an interview. “Many Conservatives talk about a referendum, not because they want consent, but because they want an exit.”
The Fresh Start group “does not go nearly far enough for many euroskeptics, both inside and outside the Conservative Party,” Tory lawmaker John Redwood wrote on his blog yesterday. “It was Conservative Party policy in opposition to repatriate our fishing grounds. It has long been U.K. policy to undertake substantial change to the Common Agricultural Policy to make it cheaper for food buyers. Many wish to see the U.K. regain control over its own energy policy and much else besides.”
EU Parliament President Martin Schulz, a German, said Cameron is seeking to appease British skeptics of the bloc and can’t expect to rewrite its treaties because no consensus exists among European governments for such a step, which would involve a “lengthy” ratification process.
“I don’t think that there is a realistic possibility here to renegotiate the EU treaties,” Schulz told reporters yesterday in Strasbourg, France. “A word of advice to Mr. Cameron would be that, whatever he has elicited, he needs to somehow deal with now, because he’s not going to find peace within the Tory family and he certainly shouldn’t find a solution that will be damaging to Europe.”
Cameron will therefore walk a delicate line tomorrow, pitting being a co-operative European against the concerns from his own party. Some Conservatives are worried that if the premier isn’t robust enough in his euroskepticism, they will lose votes to the U.K. Independence Party, which campaigns for an exit from the EU and is represented in the European Parliament, though not in the House of Commons.
A poll by Ipsos Mori yesterday showed the highest level of support -- 9 percent -- the pollsters have recorded for UKIP, ahead of the Liberal Democrats at 8 percent. Ipsos MORI interviewed 1,015 adults by telephone Jan. 12-14 and didn’t specify a margin of error.
Cameron “is constrained by domestic concerns and also by some of this being dependent on other countries coming to the EU table to negotiate,” Stephen Booth, research director at the Open Europe policy forum in London, said in a telephone interview. “Part of that is going to be the euro-zone timetable” as the 17 countries that share the single currency take further steps to resolve their debt crisis.
Cameron has indicated that any referendum is dependent on him winning a majority at the 2015 election. Still, Andrea Leadsom, the Tory lawmaker who heads Fresh Start, argued yesterday that the U.K. has an opportunity to negotiate new powers right now, with the implied threat of impeding talks between euro-area nations on resolving their debt difficulties if they don’t accede to British demands.
After helping them to load a hired Vauxhall Corsa car, he asked them to drive him somewhere before revealing a gun and two knives and saying: "There's a need for us all to die".
The court heard Mr Ege grabbed the car keys and fled the scene,We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. while Bandavad attacked his wife as she sat in the back of the car.
Bandavad, who worked for the Ministry of Defence at Abbey Wood,We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. denies murder.
Mr Ege told the jury he had driven from Wantage in Oxfordshire with his wife and his daughter, whom he had dropped off at shops in Horfield before going on to Bandavad's home with his wife.
A polite but "cool" Bandavad helped load the Corsa with Ms Hines' possessions, before he unexpectedly changed his mood.
Mr Ege told the jury that, after loading the car, he told Bandavad he and his wife were leaving.When I first started creating broken china mosaic.
Mr Ege told the court: "He said 'firstly, the three of us are going to go for a drive'.
"His manner was reasonably calm. My reply was that this was not what we agreed. I said we would come, collect the stuff and go.
"He said 'No, we are going for a drive to a place where I went to when I first came to this country'."
It was then, said Mr Ege, that Bandavad pulled up his jumper, revealed the handle of a gun tucked in the waistband of his trousers and said: "You don't understand. We are going for a drive."
Mr Ege said his wife was not happy with what was going on, saying a drive had not been agreed.
He said Bandavad then demanded his mobile phone and he showed off the gun again.
Mr Ege then noticed Bandavad had two knives in his left hand, and said Bandavad told him: "You're making me very nervous now. I'm not afraid to use this."
Unlike some of their Tory colleagues, the Fresh Start group doesn’t argue for British withdrawal from the EU. Instead, it seeks to fight threats to financial services, as well as repatriating powers on social and employment law, such as working hours. It also seeks a U.K. opt-out from EU policing and criminal justice rules, to prevent European courts overturning British judges’ decisions.
“It won’t be a shopping list, it can’t be; no sensible politician would start with one,” Sheila Lawlor, director of the Politeia research institute in London, said in a telephone interview. “You have to flag up the problems, illustrate them. It will be left quite open because there is a great deal of unpicking to be done.”
Cameron’s party is trailing the Labour opposition in opinion polls as parties start positioning themselves for the 2015 general election,The stone mosaic series is a grand collection of coordinating Travertine mosaics and listellos. beset by a struggling economy and the biggest spending cuts since World War II. There are growing splits between the Tories and their Liberal Democrat coalition partners over issues including tax and welfare.
While the premier has not yet set out in details what he will tell his audience in the Netherlands, he has ruled out an “in-out” referendum for the British people on EU membership. He has said only that he wants to reclaim unspecified powers from the bloc and put the result to a plebiscite after the 2015 election, with the government arguing to stay in.
He dismissed as a “false choice” yesterday calls for an early vote on leaving the 27-nation bloc, a move that won’t satisfy the hard core of euroskeptics who are calling for one.
Cameron’s political opponents united to condemn the plans as vague, divisive for his party and bad for British business.
Liberal Democrat Vince Cable,A Dessicant dry cabinet is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal. who serves as business secretary in Cameron’s government, will say in a speech tonight that “reopening the whole question of British membership creates additional uncertainty at a time when there is already fragile economic confidence in the wake of the financial crisis,” according to his office.
“There are so many tensions, divisions and differences within the Conservative Party that Fresh Start’s announcement fires a starting gun on what will be a bidding war within the Conservative Party to raise the bar higher for Britain staying within the EU,” Labour’s foreign-affairs spokesman, Douglas Alexander, said in an interview. “Many Conservatives talk about a referendum, not because they want consent, but because they want an exit.”
The Fresh Start group “does not go nearly far enough for many euroskeptics, both inside and outside the Conservative Party,” Tory lawmaker John Redwood wrote on his blog yesterday. “It was Conservative Party policy in opposition to repatriate our fishing grounds. It has long been U.K. policy to undertake substantial change to the Common Agricultural Policy to make it cheaper for food buyers. Many wish to see the U.K. regain control over its own energy policy and much else besides.”
EU Parliament President Martin Schulz, a German, said Cameron is seeking to appease British skeptics of the bloc and can’t expect to rewrite its treaties because no consensus exists among European governments for such a step, which would involve a “lengthy” ratification process.
“I don’t think that there is a realistic possibility here to renegotiate the EU treaties,” Schulz told reporters yesterday in Strasbourg, France. “A word of advice to Mr. Cameron would be that, whatever he has elicited, he needs to somehow deal with now, because he’s not going to find peace within the Tory family and he certainly shouldn’t find a solution that will be damaging to Europe.”
Cameron will therefore walk a delicate line tomorrow, pitting being a co-operative European against the concerns from his own party. Some Conservatives are worried that if the premier isn’t robust enough in his euroskepticism, they will lose votes to the U.K. Independence Party, which campaigns for an exit from the EU and is represented in the European Parliament, though not in the House of Commons.
A poll by Ipsos Mori yesterday showed the highest level of support -- 9 percent -- the pollsters have recorded for UKIP, ahead of the Liberal Democrats at 8 percent. Ipsos MORI interviewed 1,015 adults by telephone Jan. 12-14 and didn’t specify a margin of error.
Cameron “is constrained by domestic concerns and also by some of this being dependent on other countries coming to the EU table to negotiate,” Stephen Booth, research director at the Open Europe policy forum in London, said in a telephone interview. “Part of that is going to be the euro-zone timetable” as the 17 countries that share the single currency take further steps to resolve their debt crisis.
Cameron has indicated that any referendum is dependent on him winning a majority at the 2015 election. Still, Andrea Leadsom, the Tory lawmaker who heads Fresh Start, argued yesterday that the U.K. has an opportunity to negotiate new powers right now, with the implied threat of impeding talks between euro-area nations on resolving their debt difficulties if they don’t accede to British demands.
After helping them to load a hired Vauxhall Corsa car, he asked them to drive him somewhere before revealing a gun and two knives and saying: "There's a need for us all to die".
The court heard Mr Ege grabbed the car keys and fled the scene,We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. while Bandavad attacked his wife as she sat in the back of the car.
Bandavad, who worked for the Ministry of Defence at Abbey Wood,We open source indoor tracking system that was developed with the goal of providing at least room-level accuracy. denies murder.
Mr Ege told the jury he had driven from Wantage in Oxfordshire with his wife and his daughter, whom he had dropped off at shops in Horfield before going on to Bandavad's home with his wife.
A polite but "cool" Bandavad helped load the Corsa with Ms Hines' possessions, before he unexpectedly changed his mood.
Mr Ege told the jury that, after loading the car, he told Bandavad he and his wife were leaving.When I first started creating broken china mosaic.
Mr Ege told the court: "He said 'firstly, the three of us are going to go for a drive'.
"His manner was reasonably calm. My reply was that this was not what we agreed. I said we would come, collect the stuff and go.
"He said 'No, we are going for a drive to a place where I went to when I first came to this country'."
It was then, said Mr Ege, that Bandavad pulled up his jumper, revealed the handle of a gun tucked in the waistband of his trousers and said: "You don't understand. We are going for a drive."
Mr Ege said his wife was not happy with what was going on, saying a drive had not been agreed.
He said Bandavad then demanded his mobile phone and he showed off the gun again.
Mr Ege then noticed Bandavad had two knives in his left hand, and said Bandavad told him: "You're making me very nervous now. I'm not afraid to use this."
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