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The crisis in the eurozone was ‘an opportunity to begin to refashion the EU so it better serves this nation’s interests’, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said in his Mansion House speech. George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in a television interview: ‘There’s got to be more integration — the kind of thing actually that Britain would not tolerate and is one of the reasons we didn’t go in the euro.’ Unemployment among those aged 16-24 rose above a million. Inflation fell by 0.2 percentage points, to 5 per cent (measured by the CPI) and 5.4 (by the RPI). Mr Cameron threw a fork at a mouse during dinner at his Downing Street flat, but missed.
In a wrangle involving Theresa May, the Home Secretary, about the monitoring of immigrants, Brodie Clark, until recently the head of UK Border Agency’s ‘border force’, told the Commons Home Affairs Committee: ‘I introduced no additions to the Home Secretary’s trial, neither did I extend it or alter it in any way whatsoever.’
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