Brown stands firm on EU treaty vote - it will only be debated in Parliament

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Brown stands firm on EU treaty vote - it will only be debated in Parliament

Prime Minister Gordon Brown continued to resist pressure for a referendum on the new EU treaty and predicted that a threatened trade union rebellion on the issue would not succeed. Speaking after talks at Downing Street with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he said Parliament was the place to debate the issue, not the country at large.