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PM’s Brussels pantomime

DAVID CAMERON’S pretence that he is involved in a Titanic struggle with other member states to “reform” the European Union is a charade verging on a soap opera.

How many more times must we endure news programmes headlined by a grim-faced Prime Minister asserting that he will not take No for an answer as he braces himself for “crunch talks” at yet another EU summit?

The Tory leader has never wanted a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.

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