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February 2008

29 Feb 2008

Lib Dems were blackmailed by Baroness Williams into backing out of referendum promise

28 Feb 2008

Thousands descend on Westminster for I Want a Referendum's mass lobby

27 Feb 2008

Mass lobby of parliament to demand a referendum takes place today

26 Feb 2008

Liberal Democrat split: Time for a two-question referendum?

25 Feb 2008

Mass lobby of Parliament for a referendum

22 Feb 2008

Victory for referendum campaigners as another Labour MP vows to rebel on EU Treaty vote

21 Feb 2008

MEPs scramble to ‘hush up’ £100m fraud that makes Conway scandal “look like small change”

20 Feb 2008

Clegg backs down: entire Lib Dem parliamentary party to sit on the fence on key vote

19 Feb 2008

Northern Rock: EU state aid rules will force the bank to downsize

18 Feb 2008

Heath prepared to resign over EU referendum vote; Harvey to renege on promise to voters?

15 Feb 2008

Heath says he is ready for the sack for supporting Lisbon Treaty referendum

14 Feb 2008

Lib Dem split widens as whips threaten to sack frontbenchers

13 Feb 2008

Liberal Democrat split looms over Constitutional Treaty vote

12 Feb 2008

EU “interior ministry” to be shaped in secret after EU Treaty ratification

11 Feb 2008

Dirty tricks begin in constituency referendum campaigns

08 Feb 2008

Constituency referendums launched in Yorkshire as campaign gathers pace

07 Feb 2008

Commission’s UK representative: the British “love Europe in secret. They can admit it in private, but not in public.”

06 Feb 2008

Aberconwy referendum back on after Hoon spin backfires

05 Feb 2008

46 Labour MPs back change on Charter of Fundamental Rights

04 Feb 2008

“Furious” Geoff Hoon threatens pro-referendum Labour MPs with expulsion; Lib Dems to be targeted in constituency referendums on Lisbon Treaty

01 Feb 2008

Anti-referendum Minister claims only “foreign media owners” are interested in a vote on the EU Treaty