Parliamentary battle looms in UK over EU referendum
LONDON: A drawn-out parliamentary battle over the holding of an EU referendum in the UK by 2017 is now in prospect after the Tory MP (Conservative member of parliament) James Wharton came top of the private

Cameron’s psyche on foreign policy undergoes change
LONDON: Ever since the military success of the British-led mission to oust Muammar Qadhafi in 2011, David Cameron has recoiled from any overarching definition of his approach to foreign intervention. He has

Cameron playing a difficult game on EU
LONDON: If history repeats itself, first as tragedy and second as farce — according to Karl Marx — then Lord Armstrong of Ilminster is a fine oracle to consult as David Cameron prepares to announce a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU

Clegg on the Leveson inquiry
UK DEPUTY prime minister Nick Clegg on Sunday warned the press and Conservative party not to pre-empt or reject the recommendations of the Leveson inquiry into media regulation, indicating he would work with Labour to implement the recommendations so long as they were “proportionate”.

Cameron ends rosy days of coalition
LONDON: This was a reshuffle by the Conservative party for the Conservative party, designed to make the party more at ease with itself, and allow it to be seen as a distinctive right of centre ideological force at the next election.