Cameron fluffs his hand on Europe

Europe's leaders have called David Camron's bluff before negotiations have even got underway, reports Emily Hohler.

This week, the EU Referendum Bill on Europe laying the grounds for an "in/out" referendum on Britain's European Union membership before the end of 2017 received its second reading in the House of Commons. It will "allow the country to participate in a debate that has for too long been the preserve of the political elites", says The Daily Telegraph.

It matters that the process is seen to be as open as possible. So things have "got off to a bad start" amid confusion arising over a comment made by David Cameron at the G7 meeting of wealthy nations in Germany on Sunday. He remarked that ministers would be "expected to support the government position", which upset eurosceptics concerned that Cameron would "whip his Cabinet into a pro-EU stance", says Rafael Behr in The Guardian.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.