Miliband calls the Tories out on Europe

From @LabourList

In an article for this morning’s Guardian, David Miliband has warned that David Cameron’s proposals to renegotiate Britain’s role in Europe are “dangerous” and “need to be exposed”.

The Foreign Secretary says:

“The Tories have three proposals – all “headbanging”, to quote Ken Clarke’s view of the first. A week today, while Labour MEPs will start work on taking forward manifesto pledges on the economy and environment, Tory MEPs will be frogmarched by their leadership out of the mainstream centre-right grouping in the European parliament. The Tory MEP Caroline Jackson calls it “pathetic”. Every European leader I meet thinks it mad to give up influence with the mainstream for a deal with Latvia’s Fatherland and Freedom party”.

He continues that:

“The Tories want to renegotiate powers away from Brussels. This is the real agenda: not just John Major’s beef war, but full-frontal assault on the terms of Britain’s membership.”

Read the article in full here.