Los ministros prometen para luchar las llamadas cada vez mayor para el referéndum del tratado del EU

Por Marie Woolf

Fijan a los ministros, incluyendo David Miliband, al Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores, para venir hacia fuera luchando esta semana contra las demandas crecientes para un referéndum del tratado del EU.

Las fuentes del gobierno dicen que una cadena de ministros quiere “le hace el claro” que el gobierno tiene un mandato para el nuevo tratado de la reforma, dado en el Consejo de Europa en junio. El gobierno vino bajo presión cada vez mayor la semana pasada de rechazar eliminar un referéndum. But the Prime Minister is expected to firmly rule out a referendum later this week.

The move follows intense pressure on Gordon Brown from members of his own party. A campaign led by the Labour MP Ian Davidson, who said that up to a third of Labour MPs could back calls for an EU treaty, was joined by the former Europe minister, Keith Vaz, on Friday. He said: “We should not be afraid of actually putting this argument before the British people. We don’t need a referendum on the reformed treaty because we didn’t have one on the Nice Treaty or on Maastricht. But I think there’s a difference between need and desirability.

“I think once and for all we need to put this behind us by putting it to the British people. I am absolutely convinced that we will win any test of public opinion as to whether or not the British people want us in Europe.”

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