Summary
THE Home Office spin machine was in top gear last Friday night when it first emerged that the Government was planning to abandon our power to veto new European laws on immigration and asylum.
It issued a denial, went into reverse on Saturday and by yesterday the Home Secretary, David Blunkett, had reached new heights of absurdity, claiming - presumably with a straight face - that giving up our veto on immigration and asylum policy was the way to influence our European partners.See the full content of this document
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Absurd, Naive and Just Wrong ; How the End of Britain's Veto On Eu Immigration Matters Will Only Make Things Worse
How naive! No wonder there is so little trust in what this Government says when, on a subject as important and as sensitive as this, it changes its tune overnight.
Does it matter that we should abandon our veto? It certainly does. It destroys our leverage in the forthcoming negotiations in Bru...See the full content of this document
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