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Paterson: EU referendum is inevitable
Politics.co.uk Staff
8 December 2011, 12:00am
Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson says an EU referendum is inevitable in an interview with the Spectator magazine:
"If there was a major fundamental change in our relationship, emerging from the creation of a new bloc which would be effectively a new country from which we were excluded, then I think inevitably there would be huge pressure for a referendum.
"I think there will have to be one, yes, because I think the pressure would build up.
"This isn't going to happen immediately because these negotiations are going to take some months. But I think down the road that is inevitable."
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