Renegotiation

09.10.2015 Brexit

For the UK, getting what it wants in the EU is not enough. It needs to feel it has won.

I’m speaking in Cambridge next week about the UK’s EU referendum and I have been reading a lot of articles about the vote to prepare. Andrew Duff’s piece for Verfassungsblog is one of the best pieces I’ve found – an

22.05.2015 Brexit / UK Politics

Cameron’s “proper choice” in the EU referendum ought to mean there’s a third option on the ballot paper

So Cameron is in Riga, trying to charm fellow EU leaders that British exceptionalism a reformed EU is possible. News about it here. But one phrase particularly struck me from Cameron’s words – we’re going to give the people a

17.05.2015 Brexit / UK Politics

What happens if David Cameron switches to the No side in the EU referendum?

(note: this is a counterfactual – just in case you’re reading it after October 2015!) It is Wednesday 21st November 2015, and David Cameron has called a press conference at Downing Street. With his face going rather puce, the anger

10.05.2015 Brexit / UK Politics

Parameters for the UK’s in-or-out EU referendum

The prospect of the UK holding an in-or-out of the EU referendum fills me with dread, but debate of the merits of holding this vote, and how each side might frame its messages are topics for blog entries in future.

04.11.2009 EU Politics

Some questions for David Cameron today

It has been widely trailed that David Cameron is going to outline his new European policy today, after capitulating yesterday on the Treaty of Lisbon issue. The feral members of the Tory Party are baying for blood, so what is