Tom Goodenough Tom Goodenough

IDS’s claim about Germany’s hidden EU renegotiation role is hugely damaging for ‘Remain’

Yesterday, David Cameron was all talk of ensuring peace in our time and preventing world war three by staying in the EU. But today, as the EU debate rumbles on, he’ll have come crashing back to earth after reading the front page of The Sun. The paper quotes Iain Duncan Smith as saying that Germany was secretly in control of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation throughout. The former Work and Pensions secretary, who quit the cabinet in February, is set to add in a speech this morning that:

“There was a spare chair for them – called the German Chair. They have had a de facto veto over everything.”

IDS goes on to make a fairly explosive claim, suggesting that the ‘red line’ demand for an emergency brake was watered down following intervention from Berlin. He claims that this happened just hours before Cameron set out his EU demands in a speech back in November 2014.

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