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'Ten years from now we will be in the EU and thinking again about joining the euro'
Gove is misguided and Britons will vote to stay in Europe in any future referendum, says
the former Tory foreign secretary Douglas Hurd
Lord Hurd, the former foreign secretary, has become the latest Tory grandee to warn against
his party's growing Eurosceptic tendencies. In a wide-ranging interview with the Observer, the
peer attacked the views of Michael Gove, a Eurosceptic cabinet minister, as "backward-looking",
predicted that Britain will consider joining the euro within the decade, and said he was
opposed in principle to holding a referendum on the UK's relationship with the European
Union while "reluctantly" accepting it was now inevitable.
Hurd also called on ministers to start making the case for continued membership of the EU,
describing the recent public announcement by Gove, the education secretary, that he would
vote to leave if there were an in-out referendum today as unhelpful.