By Brian Barder

David Cameron’s EU speech on January 23rd signalled a reversal of his position on a referendum: formerly, he had promised a referendum just to approve or reject the changes he hopes to make in Britain’s relationship with the EU. Now he promises the in-or-out referendum demanded by his Europhobic wing, and UKIP. At a stroke this brings the head-banging Europhobes into the British political mainstream. Clearly he aims to outflank UKIP, to appease his back-bench Europhobes and the Europhobic media, [...]