I admit to being somewhat surprised by the outrage and vitriol directed towards David Cameron over the supposed U-Turn on Lisbon. After all, what did you expect? The promise of a referendum was only any good as long as the Treaty remained unratified.By the time David Cameron has any chance of becoming PM the Lisbon Treaty will have been European law for nearly 6 months. That is an irreversible

There will be no General Election until Ireland ratifies the Lisbon Treaty. David Cameron has made this perfectly plain. The Irish are being forced again to vote in the Autumn due to not voting the right way before and the Czechs and Poles will be told to do the same by the 27 unelected Commissars who run the EU Politburo. A vote for Cameron and the Tories is a vote for the unelected EU. Ken Clark...

David Cameron is to tell the British people that a Conservative Government will not give them a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty.

British opposition leader David Cameron faces dissent from many in his party who want a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty if the Conservatives win power, even if the charter is already in force.

The real question is: why did this split take so long to come up at all? Did the Tories really think Cameron would have withdrawn entirely from the Lisbon Treaty or from the EU? The new EU policy is a joke for precisely that reason: there has never been a coherent plan hatched by Cameron to deal with Europe. All they did was try to ride the populist tabloid outrage at Euro-myths.

David Cameron is to announce that a Conservative government will not give voters a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty.

David Cameron has just launched the above poster as part of the Conservative campaign for the European Parliament election. With the Constitution-cum-Treaty still yet to be ratified in Ireland, Czech Republic and Poland, Mr Cameron said now was the time...

Full coverage of UK PoliticsDavid Cameron has just confirmed that, if ratification of the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty were not complete in every one of the 27 EU states, an incoming Conservative Government would carry out its promise to hold a referendum and recommend a "No" vote.David Cameron speaks to Andrew Marr The Euro-phile Andrew Marr assumed an expression of almost Paxmanesque incr...

DAVID Cameron has written to Czech President Václav Klaus confirming his intention to hold a referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty should he win power next year before the treaty has entered into force. Cameron had reassured Klaus that if he held up the treaty, Cameron would stage a referendum in Britain if he wins power in an election due by next May. This would force pro-Lisbon member states to ...

David Miliband MP, Labour's Foreign Secretary, has responded to reports that Vaclav Klaus has signed the Lisbon Treaty and commented on David Cameron's failure to clarify his policy on the treaty. David Miliband told Labour Matters: "So much for David Cameron's cast iron guarantee to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty." "As British Foreign Secretary, I would welcome Mr Cameron&#...