DAVID Cameron's remarks on the EU and the Lisbon Treaty yesterday showed how ill at ease he is on European matters and how divided the Conservatives remain on how to deal with these issues. There could not be a more significant revelation of the existence of this division at the highest level in the party than Mr Cameron's relatively pragmatic remarks on future relations with the EU which contrasted strongly with William Hague's recent reference to the possible appointment of Tony Blair as the EU Council president as being an act of hostility to a Conservative government. Mr Cameron said: I will try to deal reasonably with whoever I have to deal with. You have to work with what you inherit.
Mr Cameron also appeared to take a more reasonable line on the Lisbon
Treaty: If the Treaty is ratified there will be a new set of circumstances and we will have to address these. But he added: We have made our position very clear to the EU leaders. Everyone in Europe knows our position.
Unfortunately he failed to explain what that position is now. Is it still that the approval by all countries of the Lisbon Treaty would not be the end of the matter, as he has said previously, or is there a new position -- and if there is, would he kindly share it with the British people as well as with the EU leaders?
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