Jim Murphy

The Spectator is wrong to call for an EU referendum

The Europe minister responds to our editorial of last week

issue 22 September 2007

‘If someone in the UK is calling for a referendum, that is not because the text we have in front of us is a Constitution.’ Not my words. They belong to Giuliano Amato, vice chairman of the Convention that drafted the old Constitutional Treaty.

Last week in the Spectator the government was accused of being dishonest regarding the European Reform Treaty (‘Vote for honesty’, 15 September).

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