A few words with arch-Eurosceptic Liam Fox at the Tory conference confirmed it – Cameron’s opponents are up for a fightEveryone is expecting the Tory party to split over Europe in the coming referendum,largely because it has happened so often before. To the untrained eye, however, and the divide is still tricky to spot. Relatively few MPs,and no government ministers, are yet committed to campaigning for a vote to leave.
Conservative Kremlinologists discerned the first signs of the faultline in the differing emphases of the platform speeches of David Cameron on the one hand, or Theresa May and Boris Johnson on the other. Certainly,the PMs line approximately a country that was “strong in Europe” sounded like a trial elope of his pitch for the remain” campaign, even though he maintains that he has “ruled nothing out”. To EU policy wonks, and the mayor of London’s line on sovereignty – “it is approximately who decides – sounded suspiciously incompatible with the established primacy of EU over national law. Likewise,the home secretary’s speech demanded “an immigration system that allows us to control who comes to our country” – an immigration system, in other words, or that offends the sacrosanct EU principle of free movement.
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Source: theguardian.com