With a rising number of Conservatives calling for a referendum before 2017 and the unlikely chances of this happening given that their coalition partners do not agree, the Europe question is going to be argued and debated for some time to come.

For the Prime Minister to insist that "we would require the agreement of our coalition partners" could be seen as placing politics above principle - an advertisement for self-imposed weakness. The opportunity for David Cameron is visibly to put the country before the coalition. The Prime Minister should offer them an ultimatum.

Ed Miliband is to accuse David Cameron of putting efforts to hold the Tory party together ahead of the national interest, pointing to the referendum o...

David Cameron could take the extraordinary step of voting against his own Queen's Speech next week, as he attempts to placate Tory eurosceptics who wa...

The United Kingdom "should be prepared" to leave the European Union Boris Johnson has said, as David Cameron condemned Tories "pessimists" who doubted...

Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo has become the latest Tory heavyweight to argue that Britain should leave the European Union - a...

David Cameron has insisted he welcomes the renewed focus on Conservative European policy sparked by former chancellor Lord Lawson's public call for th...

Lord Lawson has dismissed as "poppycock" Nick Clegg's suggestion that three million British jobs would be put at risk if the UK left the European Unio...

Former Tory chancellor Lord Lawson has "legitimised" Ukip's existence today by calling for Britain to leave the European Union, according to Nigel Far...

Lord Lawson has become the most senior Tory figure to call for the UK to quit the European Union and has pledged to vote No in any referendum on membe...

Former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson has said George Osborne should nationalise the Royal Bank of Scotland. In an interview with the Financia...

Three general election victories later (and five years after he left Downing Street), Tony Blair's influence continues to be felt across the political landscape. The current generation of politicians are defined, either favourably or unfavourably, against Blair.

George Osborne took his eye off the ball when it came to capping tax relief on charitable donations, former chancellor Lord Lawson said today. The ...

The government "got it wrong" on welfare reform, according to Margaret Thatcher's former chancellor. Lord Lawson, who voted against a measure that ...

George Osborne has hailed the deal on the eurozone, saying "very good progress" had been made on key issues. In a statement to parliament, the chan...