One of David Cameron’s chief successes has been to marginalise Europe as an issue. But the expulsion of Edward McMillan-Scott MEP from the Conservative party, for refusing to withdraw allegations he made against Michal Kaminski, the leader of the controversial Eurosceptic grouping of which the Tories are members, has disinterred the fractious European problem. The Europhile McMillan-Scott launched a pointed attack on the Tory leadership and its European policy on this morning’s Today programme. He said:
“I think David Cameron has got most things right on Europe, but this partnership (the grouping) matters…What we will see is the party becoming much more Eurosceptic than it seems now. If all European parliaments and the Irish vote in favour of the Lisbon treaty, we pledged not to have a referendum, I fear that will change. There are a number of Europhobes near the leader who are influencing his thinking… and that is why I have been expelled.
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