Ed Miliband is right, the promise of an EU referendum won’t win the 2015 election
Ed Miliband understands that people want a government that understands their concerns about Europe but is not obsessed with it.
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Britain wins in Europe. Only we don’t seem to notice
The UK government is on course to win around 90 per cent of its policy goals in Europe, despite polling showing that a majority of Britons believe the country is a loser in Europe.
Opinion: the Conservatives will live to regret the EU referendum
Europe has long been a problem for the Conservative Party and whichever way the EU referendum goes has pitfalls for the Prime Minister.
Next time someone claims that immigrants are destroying Britain, show them this
Spoken word poet Hollie McNish spells out what’s wrong with most of the arguments used against immigration. She cites as her inspiration a book by economist Philippe Legrain called Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them.
High noon for Europe as unions call for investment to ‘kick start’ the recovery
Ahead of this week’s European TUC mid-term conference in Dublin, European Union leaders have called for a new European Recovery Plan to kick-start economic growth.
Speaker Bercow is right: migrants are harder workers
John Bercow is getting a lot of flack right now from the right-wing press for comments made in Romania in which he seemed to imply that EU migrants were better workers than their British counterparts.
How attractive is Britain to ‘benefit tourists’?
It’s been reported that work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is to challenge the EU commissioner Laszlo Andor after the latter, along with his fellow commissioners, announced that the commission would be taking Britain to court for discriminatory practices in its application of regulations on welfare payments.
EU benefits are ‘land grab’ by Brussels, says Duncan Smith
The EU Commissioner for employment and social affairs, Laszlo Andor, is taking the British government to court over what it says are discriminatory practices in its application of regulations on welfare payments.
Queen’s Speech amendment ‘venal act of self indulgence’, says former Tory MP
A possible Conservative amendment to the Queen’s Speech condemning it for failing to include a bill advocating a referendum on EU membership would be a “venal act of self indulgence” that could be the beginning of the end of the Conservatives in office, a former Conservative MP has claimed.
Blaming the EU is an easy way out. Leaving it would be bad for Britain
When Europe comes to the fore of politics in Britain, the polls shift in favour of staying, as they did after David Cameron’s speech. When it comes to the crunch, however, the voting public are too clever to turn away from our most valuable relationship.