The Tories’ Euro Dilemma Is Back
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David Cameron almost managed to make it look as if he had laid the Tories’ euro ghost to rest, and then Ireland came along to burst it wide open again! Plenty of Tory MPs were on their feet in the Commons today to suggest that the only real solution was for Ireland to abandon the euro and join a sterling currency area. Meanwhile, that old Tory rightist and Cameron hater Simon Heffer used his recent column to suggest that the war over the euro was one that David Cameron really wants in order to finish off his party’s right-wing. More moderately, the Economist’s Bagehot tries to explain why the Tory right are being so ‘tin-eared’ over the Irish bail-out. Oh, and just to help things along, the Conservative MEPs have elected their most euro-sceptic leader yet, in the person of Martin Callanan. David Cameron may want a Big Society at home, but it looks as if he may still be de-railed by the even bigger Euro Society abroad.
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