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Tory party out of control over Europe, says Lord Howe
Former chancellor launches scathing attack on David Cameron and says Euroscepticism is
'infecting party soul'
Lord Howe has accused David Cameron of running scared of his backbenchers and endangering
Britain's future in Europe.
Lord Howe, the former Conservative chancellor who triggered the downfall of Margaret Thatcher,
has launched a scathing attack on the prime minister, accusing him of running scared of his
backbenchers and endangering Britain's future in Europe.
The Tory grandee says David Cameron has opened a Pandora's box by opposing the current
terms of the UK's membership of the European Union and now appears to be losing control of his party
. The prime minister's actions, Howe writes in the Observer, have turned an internal Tory problem into a
national one.
In a highly significant intervention over Britain's future, Howe laments the "new, almost farcical" level of
debate over Europe in the Tory party, and says that Labour and the Liberal Democrats may need to
bear the burden of retrieving the situation. Howe, Thatcher's longest-serving cabinet minister, whose
resignation speech in 1990 is widely considered to have precipitated the then prime minister's downfall,
writes: "Sadly, by making it clear in January that he opposes the current terms of UK membership
of the EU, the prime minister has opened a Pandora's box politically and seems to be
******* losing control of his party in the process*********.
