The rise of UKIP, the anti-EU party, has largely been brought about by disgruntled voters who simply don’t believe that Mr Cameron will be held to his promise of an in-out referendum if they are returned at the next general election due in 2015.
Despite noises from him prior to last week’s local elections that he will attempt to put leglislation in place prior to the election to ensure a referendum takes place he now admits that it simply isn’t possible
Writing to a group of MPs this week he says
“I completely understand the serious case you make for legislation. You know, however, that this Government’s legislative programme is founded on the Coalition Agreement which did not include legislating in this Parliament for an In-Out referendum.“For the Government to be able to bring forward the type of legislation you propose, we would require the agreement of our Coalition partners which, as things stand, is not forthcoming.”
Just another add-on to the EU referendum story that will be running for a while yet.
The Telegraph carries the story here
