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  Hardline Tory Eurosceptics could set the party on a route to 'political suicide,' claims Lord Patten
  
  The former European Commissioner says displays of disunity could sink Conservative chances at the
  
  next election
  
  Hardline Tory Eurosceptics determined to get Britain out of the European Union could set the party
  
  on a route to "political suicide", the former Conservative chairman warned today.
  
  Lord Patten, now the BBC's chairman, also urged fractious MPs to rally behind David Cameron,
  
  telling them: "Parties that don't look united don't win elections."
  
  He said it would be "perfectly possible" for Mr Cameron to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership
  
  of the EU that should be acceptable to the country.
  
  But he added: "If your response to that is that nothing would be acceptable, then I think that would be
  
  bad news for the Conservative Party.
  
  "If nothing is acceptable, I recall Winston Churchill's very wise observation that the problem with
  
  political suicide is that you live to regret it."

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