Conservative Turmoil over Europe - Flint

Caroline Flint MP, Labour's Minister for Europe, commenting on David Cameron's Europe policies, said:

"Yet again the Conservatives are in turmoil over Europe.  We need to cooperate with our European allies - more trade abroad means more jobs at home. But instead of working together to fight the recession, the Conservatives are fighting each other over Europe.

"But it's not only members of David Cameron's own party who have condemned his damaging European policies. Now we have mainstream leaders from across Europe, including Angela Merkel, speaking out against David Cameron's isolationist stance.

"By dragging Britain to the fringes of Europe David Cameron is sacrificing powerful alliances and British influence abroad to his party's ideological obsession."