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What exactly did the Conservative leader David Cameron promise about a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and is he now breaking that promise? Full Article at Channel 4
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David Cameron declared yesterday that he would not allow his premiership to be dominated by a "massive bust-up" with the European Union as he shelved any Europe referendum for at least five years. Full Article at The Independent
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After abandoning his "cast-iron" promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, the Conservative leader pledged that the British people would not be denied a voice in the future as he attempted to placate his party's Eurosceptics. Full Article at The Scotsman
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The Tory leadership has conceded defeat over plans to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Full Article at Press and Journal
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David Cameron needs to find a new policy that will satisfy the whole party Tory leader David Cameron is to set out his party's new policy on Europe, after they conceded a referendum promised on the Lisbon Treaty was not possible. Full Article at BBC News
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We cannot hold a referendum and magically make those posts or the Lisbon Treaty itself disappear, any more than we could hold a referendum to stop the sun rising in the morning
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We will give the British people a referendum 'lock' to which only they should hold the key, a commitment very similar to that which exists in Ireland
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Now that the treaty is going to become European law and is going to enter into force, that means a referendum can no longer prevent the creation of the president of the European Council and the loss of British national vetoes ... These things will already have happened and a referendum cannot unwind the...
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What I've said is we want to hold that referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, but clearly it seems we are now getting close to a point where that treaty is no longer going to be a treaty, but will be part of European law
