Entries by Emma Reynolds from 12/2011

Tories Euro Divide: Cameron Has Lost Control

| Posted 12.08.2011 | UK Politics

It would be easier to sympathise with the prime minister had he not stumbled into a trap of his own making. He was more than happy to play the anti-European card when it suited him, especially when he secured the Tory leadership. Now, in order to maintain British influence in a debate of enormous importance to our future, he expects to be taken seriously by the very people he was so quick to shun for the easy applause of his own backbenchers.