CAN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY BE TRUSTED ON THE EUROPEAN UNION?
Mr. Christopher Gill, Chairman of the Freedom Association and sometime Conservative Member of Parliament for Ludlow, spoke on this question at the League’s latest public meeting, held at the Clarence public house, Whitehall, on Tuesday 30th March. In his immediate reaction to the question, Mr. Gill said that “implicitly” was not the word that immediately sprang to his mind! After thirty years of membership, he said, the Conservative Party was still not telling the truth about the European Union. He contrasted the Party’s policy of withdrawing from the Common Fisheries Policy with party leader Michael Howard’s support, in a letter to The Sunday Times also signed by nine others, some of them Europhiles, for policies which would sweep away most of the remaining British fishing fleet, to make room for the fleets of the countries joining the EU this year. He also referred to the party’s opposition to the EU constitution, but compared this with Mr. Howard’s response to the question of what h
