Britons will vote on the country’s future in the 28-member bloc before the end of 2017 in a referendum Cameron promised before last May’s election to try to counter the rise of the anti-EU UK Independence Party.
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Mr Benn’s remarks, in an interview with The Independent, reflect fears that leading figures on the right, such as Chuka Umunna and Rachel Reeves, have decided to “sit out” Mr Corbyn’s leadership and wait for the party to move back in their direction.
“How can this country have food banks when we are just about to spend £100 billion on a replacement system that we will never use?” she told activists in Bournemouth. “This general seems to have forgotten that we live in a democracy”.
“My Better Business plan will level the playing field between small businesses and their workers who are being made to wait in the queue behind the big corporate welfare lobby the Tories are funded by and obsessed with”.
“I think on the whole things will be very similar to how they were before”. Asked if the shadow cabinet faced some robust discussions, he replied: “Yes, I think you are right”.
The Liberal Democrat, who lost his seat in May, said Labour’s new leader was “completely unelectable” and the Conservatives “will slaughter them”.
“Tim Farron doesn’t seem to stand for anything – making him in this sense even worse than Nick Clegg”.
The Lib Dems are so sure they’re getting a flood of Labour defectors that they’re squabbling over what to do with them.
Coun Churchill’s partner, Liberal Democrat London Assembly member and former leader of Richmond’s opposition, Stephen Knight, said the couple, who have two children, have very similar political views but he remains loyal to his party.
“I’m hopeful that we would find amongst the Labour Party some people who take the kind of humanitarian lead we have on the refugee crisis, I hope that would be the case”.
“My view is that I can further my causes that I believe in strongly more effectively from where I am as a member of the Liberal Democrats“.
Last week councillors gave the green light to taking in 20 Syrians after Lib Dems called for Milton Keynes to accept its fair share of families.
He said the party could improve its numbers in the House of Commons and have a significant influence in the next parliament.
He refused to be drawn over whether she would have defected from the Lib Dems were he still leader.
Cameron, Salvini said, had shown “balls” in his efforts to close Britain off to immigrants as thousands sought to make their way to Britain from Calais.
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It comes after opposition chief Corbyn expressed his admiration for Costa Rica, which scrapped its army in 1949.
