Please don’t allow the right wing of the Conservative party to claim today that they are acting out of patriotism. They are not. They are indulging an obsession at a time when their country needs them to act in a more grown up fashion. Voting for the motion today will be an anti-patriotic act when tens of thousands of people face losing their jobs and their homes."

Like most of the British people, the Tory Reform Group has watched the weekend's developments on Europe with a mixture of astonishment and dismay. With unemployment, inflation and low growth figures threatening the lives and jobs of people up and down the country, this moment of dire financial crisis is not the time to re-open a debate on Britain's membership of the European Union.

The last thing we should be doing now is to throw fuel on to the fire that is raging across the Eurozone. In the short term we should be engaging constructively doing what we can to protect our export markets and to support moves for stability across the EU.

This is about the relationship between Mr Cameron and his MPs. So how does he respond? What does No10 say later tonight, and in the coming days? The various threats of withheld preferment and even deselection cannot be unsaid. William Hague's unwise point comparing the rebels to graffiti vandals has enraged some.