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  Cameron dismisses the Eastleigh result at his peril. Too many of his own party are, in his own words, "closet racists" for the Tories to carry on as they are at the moment. He can promise a referendum in x number of years for as long as he likes, but unless the agenda is tackled sooner rather than later, there will be more results like Eastleigh to come, and probably worse.
  
  I genuinely fail to understand what his problem is: if he were to hold this much-vaunted EU referendum in the summer rather than some years in the future, he would blow UKIP out of the water, literally overnight. Win or lose the result, UKIP would have no leg to stand on, so the disenchanted Tory supporters would either rejoin the ranks or go further right-wing and vote BNP. I can't see the latter happening, so I see it as Cameron's chance to reunite his party.

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