David Cameron’s speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet last night was a significant moment — the clearest articulation yet of his European Policy. In
the crucial paragraph, he declared:
Cameron’s decision to remind everyone that he is a Eurosceptic is an attempt to reassure his party that he shares its instincts on the European question, that he hasn’t gone wobbly in office. There’s also, though, a linguistic concession to Clegg here.‘we sceptics have a vital point. We should look sceptically at grand plans and utopian visions. We’ve a right to ask what the European Union should and shouldn’t do and change it accordingly. As I said, change brings opportunities. An opportunity to begin to refashion the EU so it better serves this nation’s interests and the interests of its other 26 nations too. An opportunity, in Britain’s case, for powers to ebb back instead of flow away and for the European Union to focus on what really matters.’
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