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Liberal Democrat MEPs react to Cameron’s EU speech

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 23rd January 2013 - 10:36 am

Liberal Democrat MEPs have been responding to David Cameron’s speech promising an in/out referendum on Europe once he has renegotiated the terms of the UK’s membership. This is, of course, incumbent on the Conservatives winning a majority at the next election. That sounds like a pretty powerful motivator to Liberal Democrat activists to ensure the Tory leader does not have control of the Commons.

I will update this post during the day with further comments. First off the marks were Sir Graham Watson and Sarah Ludford.

I was quite surprised to see the words “looks good, sounds good” in Sir Graham Watson’s …

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Posted in Europe / International and News | Also tagged in/out referendum and sarah ludford | 7 Comments

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