Miliband: “With this PM, a veto’s not for life, it’s just for Christmas”
Alex Hern runs through Cameron’s U-turn on Europe
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Cameron’s excuses don’t add up
Cormac Hollingsworth explains why, although we don’t know what did cause Cameron to walk out of the EU talks, we can be pretty sure what it wasn’t.
Euro-Tories gain a UKIP defector – but Helmer faces the chop
Ben Fox reports from Brussels on the defection of David Campbell Bannerman from the Tories to UKIP and the possible de-whipping of sexist climate denier Roger Helmer.
Hannan accused of “dishonourable” behaviour as Tory MEPs lurch right
The Tory right were on the march in Brussels today, voting in hardline Eurosceptic Martin Callanan as the leader of the party’s MEPs. Callanan was the unanimous victor in the poll of the Conservative’s 24 Members of the European Parliament, winning over 50 per cent of the vote – including the support of Daniel Hannan, who had told Callanan’s rival Charles Tannock he would vote for him, only to double-cross him.