The Eurosceptic campaign – already divided between two camps – seems to have got itself into another tangle over the right to use a ‘red card’ to block EU legislation. Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott has dismissed the proposal, which will allow Britain to kick start a process to block EU laws if 55 per cent of other European countries agree, as a ‘gimmick’. Speaking this morning, he said:
‘These gimmicks have been ignored by the EU before and will be ignored again as they will not be in the EU treaty’.
But it seems the idea of a ‘red card’ has not always been viewed in the same way by Matthew Elliott. A Business for Britain paper, written almost a year ago today, called for ten changes to be implemented in renegotiating our relationship with the EU.
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