When Davey was kicked out of Commons over EU referendum
Michael Crick casts his mind back to 2008 when one Lib Dem MP was “kicked out” of the commons for demanding an EU referendum – how times change.
Michael Crick casts his mind back to 2008 when one Lib Dem MP was “kicked out” of the commons for demanding an EU referendum – how times change.
David Cameron’s Europe speech is now confirmed for Wednesday but will it be Angela Merkel dealing with its fall-out after the German election in autumn?
Gary Gibbon is in the Netherlands – where the PM’s party tells him that Mr Cameron won’t find any allies if he thinks Britain can opt out of Europe just to help its own taxpayers.
David Cameron will explain on Friday how he wants to renegotiate powers back from Europe. But is he playing poker while the other EU members just want a game of dominos?
Vince Cable expresses his concerns over David Cameron’s upcoming Europe speech: calling the debate over Britain’s membership of the EU a “massive disruption and deeply unhelpful”.
Convincing Europe that the UK is willing to quit the EU is one strategy to renegotiate powers – but is it a threat that should be coming from the PM?
As Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joins European leaders in Oslo to receive the Nobel peace prize, the message ringing out from speeches is that the the EU may be mind-numbing and regularly mistaken – but jaw-jaw is better than war-war.
I hereby predict that in the European elections in 2014, Christine Hamilton will be elected an MEP for Ukip. And her husband Neil could well become a Ukip MEP as well.
Britain feels there’s a painless – in national interest terms – way to settle this whole budget business.
Despite growing irritation with the UK, the Germans will not be throwing Britain out of Europe, even if Mr Cameron seems to be inviting such treatment.
Gary Gibbon arrives in Berlin where Angela Merkel’s plan to stop “the UK parking it’s car in front of the fire station” could have dramatic repercussions for Britain in Europe.
With hours to go until the crucial EU budget vote, Tory rebels are losing hope that they will get enough support – and Ed Miliband joining the cause did not help, as Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports from Westminster.
David Cameron promises to get tough on a veto of this year’s EU budget.
Love for the European Union is thin on the ground as David Cameron prepares to meet fellow EU leaders.
Today’s headlines may say that David Cameron has ruled out a referendum on Europe, but Political Editor Gary Gibbon is not convinced.