Brown won’t get his Tory split on Europe

William Hague was on Steve Richards’ GMTV show at 6am this morning (amazing what baby care does to your viewing habits) and asked The Question ahead of tomorrow’s debate: what would a Tory government do about a ratified EU Reform Treaty/constitution? He answered in almost the exact same words Cameron used on Marr last week. “In our view too much power would have been transferred from Westminster to Brussels, that it would lack democratic legitimacy for the reasons we have discussed, and that we would not let matters rest there and that is a position that Conservative MPs, as far as I can see, are very, very supportive of.”

The Tory problem is that there is little agreement on what, precisely, should be done. The EU offers no reverse mechanism. Hague is implying the Judge Dredd approach to problem-solving (“if I can’t find a way, I’ll make one”) yet given his problems over the EPP withdrawal, would the party trust him? From my inquiries, there points are clear.