[Aduk]

A senior Tory minister says the party would be willing to campaign for UK withdrawal from the European Union if unable to secure membership reforms.

Energy minister Michael Fallon is the first senior Conservative to explicitly indicate which way the party would vote should its proposals be rejected.

But Downing Street sources stressed the party was confident the UK-EU relationship could be renegotiated.

Read more here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27456187

[joeysteele]

This is the big problem with David Cameron's strategy and policy as to the EU.
His procrastination is going to lead all sorts of this nonsense from within the Conservative party and from the opposition parties too.

He has to spell out what it is he is going to re-negotiate or try to reform for over 2 years after winning,(god forbid),the 2015 election.
He needs to spell out clearly and forcefully as a leader should, what he would do in a referendum now with no reform at all and also where he will stand so far off in 2017 after his so called attempts to reform of the EU as to the UK.
That is if he has a UK to re-negotiate for after the Scottish referendum.

His procrastination is really annoying and irritating, he is creating and allowing to grow stronger an atmosphere of great uncertainty over the Eu and the UK and that is really bad leadership from any PM.

He won't get an overall majority in 2015 so no way is a referendum coming anyway but David Cameron really needs to strongly lead on this and slap down voices that are either revealing his true agenda or are actually way off his stance and off the mark as to his EU policy,pre and post the referendum.

[Aduk]

Tory policy hasn't changed, just comments from one minister.