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Speaking at the launch of his Haus book, ‘The UK’s In-Out Referendum. EU Foreign and Defence Policy Reform’, Centre for Policy Studies, London, 14 March 2016.
“There has been a long tradition that US Presidential visits to this country do not take place close to General Election periods. The reasons for this are obvious and hitherto scrupulously observed by Washington D.C. They also govern Prime Ministers visiting the United States.
“If the only option in the forthcoming UK referendum becomes a minimalist renegotiation… there is a real chance that the British people will, and in my view should, vote to leave the EU” (p.9)
The UK’s In-Out Referendum: EU Foreign and Defence Policy Reform (Haus Publishing, December 2015. Editor Peter Hennessy)
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“We need to wake up. We are all of us being fooled in the EU, not just the UK: by Cameron over this short term fix and by Juncker and the Five Presidents. It is time to call both Cameron and Juncker’s bluff and in doing so restore some confidence to financial markets that Europe and the UK are getting their act together.
If either Cameron or Juncker fail to …
“To delay the referendum is not acceptable. To do anything in this House, either through ping-pong or otherwise, that would delay the undoubted constitutional right of the Prime Minister to choose the timing of his announcement – and therefore, following his announcement, the timing of the referendum – would be absurd.
“…. the giving of a referendum is a right for Members of Parliament and nobody else, because it curtails …