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The most Euro integrationist government since Ted Heath's?

Peter Oborne has a must read piece in today's Telegraph.

He highlights how Coalition ministers nodded through the Eurozone bailout deal struck by the previous Labour government - which has left us on the hook for £Billions. And means we're now part of the Euro as a debt union, albeit not as a currency union.

Oborne points out how "one of the officials behind Darling's catastrophic decision to pile British taxpayers' money into the eurozone bail-outs ..... was a Treasury official named Sir Jon Cunliffe. He was soon rewarded with promotion to the British ambassadorship to the EU, one of the best jobs in Brussels – which casts doubt on the sincerity of Cameron's and Osborne's claims that they were seriously displeased with the deal. ..... there is no hope that a chap who helped chuck away billion of taxpayers' money in an afternoon will stand up for Britain in tough, detailed negotiations."

Indeed.

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