The Daily Mail reports: “A cross-party coalition celebrated briefly yesterday after securing a landmark debate and vote next week on staging a referendum on whether Britain should leave the EU.” However, “to the fury of many Tory MPs, Government sources last night indicated that Mr Cameron may order his troops to vote against the proposal, virtually guaranteeing its defeat.”
Bill Cash was quoted as saying ‘It would be quite extraordinary for the Prime Minister to prevent the British people from having their say on a European project that is quite clearly failing.
'We have protests and riots all over Europe, we have billions of pounds being poured into bailouts and we have a trade balance with the EU which has deteriorated by £40billion.
‘For the Prime Minister to ask the Conservative Party to vote against asking people their views would be beyond belief.
'It would cause huge anger and resentment on the back benches and, more importantly, in the country at large – it is defying political gravity.’ Read the article here.
