William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary, abandoned this position today,hours after Václav Klaus, the Czech president, signed the treaty, the last step in its ratification. Hague said: "What has happened today means it is no longer possible to have a referendum on the Lisbon treaty." Barry Legg, a former chief executive of the Conservative party who is co-chair of the Eurosceptic Bruges Group, said: "David Cameron needs to come clean with the British people: why is he breaking his pledge to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty?" Full Article at Guardian Unlimited