Article 14MQB Our quixotic prime minister may need Labour to save him in Europe

Our quixotic prime minister may need Labour to save him in Europe

by
William Keegan
from on (#14MQB)
David Cameron is swimming in deep waters in Brussels: it may yet fall to his steady, broadly pro-European opposition to hand him a referendum victory

In his Antimi(C)moires, the French writer and politician Andri(C) Malraux recalls a conversation with President de Gaulle after the second world war in which De Gaulle said he planned to nationalise the banks and public utilities.

But he went on to emphasise that he was going to do this "not for the sake of the left but for the sake of France".

The question 'who is the real David Cameron?' intrigues me much more than 'who is the real George Osborne?'

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