Prime Minister David Cameron's new Eurosceptic Cabinet of ministers reflects public opinion, the new defense minister said on Wednesday, saying the British leader wants to win back voters who had defected to an anti-EU party before next May's election.
Cameron, the leader of the Conservative party, the senior partner in a two-party coalition, on Tuesday pushed through his biggest government shake-up since coming to power. He has promised to try to renegotiate Britain's European Union ties before holding a membership referendum in 2017 if he wins next year's national vote.
"It's certainly a Eurosceptic cabinet, but the country is Eurosceptic now. We think Europe has been on the wrong lines," newly appointed Defence Minister Michael Fallon, who has previously said the party would campaign to leave the EU if it couldn't secure EU reforms, told BBC radio.
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2 comments:
Would I be wrong to suspect the real motive for "Euroskepticism" to be summed up this way: Can't have a Third World War if the European Union's still viable, now, can we?
I think the Russians are trying really hard to prove that wrong. ;)
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