Portrait of the week | 3 January 2013

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On the eve of a speech by David Cameron, the Prime Minister, on the EU, Andrew Duff MEP, the leader of the Union of European Federalists, suggested that Britain could be offered second-class ‘associate member’ status in the EU. ‘If the British cannot support the trend towards more integration in Europe,’ Jacques Delors, the former president of the EU Commission said in an interview with a German paper, ‘we can nevertheless remain friends, but on a different basis.’ Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, said in an interview with the Guardian: ‘If every member state were able to cherry-pick those parts of existing policies that they most like, and opt out of those that they least like, the union in general, and the single market in particular, would soon unravel.’ Lord Rees-Mogg, editor of the Times, 1967-81, died, aged 84. Christopher Martin-Jenkins, the cricket commentator, died, aged 67.