“Tomorrow’s debate and vote on an EU referendum in the House of Commons is a problem largely of David Cameron’s own making.

It was he who, in November 2009, made a u-turn on his cast iron guarantee that the Tories would hold a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon. The decision was pragmatic at the time, but kept the lid on an argument that it this week spewing forth with renewed ferocity.”

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