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How Long 'Til Britain Dumps the EU?

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Britain's right-wing press is applauding Prime Minister David Cameron's refusal to join an updated version of the Lisbon Treaty this week, and the left-wing press says he made a horrible mistake. The Financial Times' Philip Stephens says no one should be surprised the UK was the EU killjoy. It wasn't the first time Britain cast their vote against the united continent, and it won't be the last. "For the growing band of hard-line Tory sceptics this is just the beginning. Now that Britain has placed itself fully outside the EU’s core economic project, why not reopen negotiations on everything else?"

Read it at Financial Times

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