How UK sovereignty is still under threat from Europe

Despite 'no' votes from the French and Dutch, EU leaders are determined to go ahead with the new constitution. And it threatens to cause severe problems for Labour in the near future.

Imagine the next general election is held in 2009. David Cameron's Conservative party beats Labour by two million votes, and gains enough seats to form a majority government. But Gordon Brown refuses to go.

'I really believe that the electorate did not reject the Government,' he says. 'Unfortunately the electorate did not realise what the General Election was about. Indeed, the voters have requested more Labour policies not less. The rejection of Labour's programme was a mistake, which will have to be corrected.'

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