A confidential memo drafted by the British foreign ministry has indicated the depth of anti-EU feeling in the British Conservative party. The paper was written last week by UK officials in the form of a letter from the Conservative shadow foreign minister, William Hague, to the party's leader David Cameron, outlining what Mr Hague would tell EU foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels on Monday (10 May) if the Tories had won the UK elections on 6 May.
The letter says the UK wants to undo its previous commitments on EU criminal justice, social and employment legislation and to rule out ever joining the single currency.
For more: EUobserver / Leak exposes anti-EU feeling in UK's Tory party
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