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from the express today.
BRITAIN should consider quitting the EU, scornful Euro MPs said yesterday after the Daily Express exposed Brussels' latest power grab.
During heated exchanges, British MEPs were heckled at an EU meeting as they referred to our front page report that Brussels could force sports stars to wear the EU flag on their kit.
The German committee chairwoman, Doris Pack, accused Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall of grandstanding when he flourished a copy of yesterday's Daily Express and described the EU proposal as "baloney".
She said, to applause from some MEPs, that it was just "better not" to speak about the British press.
She later added: "In the Lisbon Treaty there is a possibility to leave the EU ... I only wanted to say it."
MEPs at the meeting said they understood her comments to mean Britain had the mechanism to leave the EU if it wanted. Mr Nuttall said: "The chairwoman got quite irate and said the good thing about the Lisbon Treaty is that it includes a clause that would let us leave, that would allow we British to leave".
Yesterday we revealed how the European Parliament is considering, as part of wide ranging report on sport, plans to force European teams to wear the EU flag on their kit in addition to their national flag.
The idea that sports stars, including our football, rugby, cricket and Olympic teams, might have to display the blue and yellow symbol prompted outrage in Britain.
Tory MP Tracey Crouch, who is a qualified FA coach, said: "It's outrageous. It's an affront to our national teams."
Former England football manager Graham Taylor said: "When competing European nations play against each other it seems pointless to have the European flag on both teams' shirts. It seems a bit daft."