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David Cameron's Failed Foreign Policy

These Times

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Cameron's Challenges with the Lisbon Treaty

This chapter discusses the challenges faced by Gordon Brown's government in ratifying the Lisbon Treaty and the opposition of David Cameron, who argues that the treaty takes away powers from Westminster. Cameron promises to renegotiate some of these powers in his 2010 Conservative manifesto, but it is unclear how he plans to achieve this as there is no precedent for such renegotiation in EU history.

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