Major: This is our chance to win back power from the EU

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UK Daily Mail:

Sir John Major – who as prime minister signed up to the Maastricht Treaty – has joined calls for a renegotiation of Britain’s relationship with Brussels.

His intervention piles further pressure on David Cameron to use the crisis in the eurozone to demand powers back from the European Union.

The former premier caused surprise in Tory circles by saying yesterday that now is the time to insist on ‘looser’ ties with the EU.

At the Conservative conference last week, Mr Cameron said he wanted to claw back powers from Brussels, but suggested it would have to wait for negotiations over a new treaty, which might be several years away.

The Prime Minister signalled to around 120 Conservative MPs in a new Eurosceptic grouping that the debt crisis engulfing the eurozone and threatening the British economy must take priority.

Sir John, however, said there could be a ‘much more speedy’ opportunity to renegotiate, particularly on issues affecting employment law and regulation of the City.

He claimed it was likely that Europe was heading towards a ‘federal state within the eurozone’.

‘At some stage there will be another treaty because if there is fiscal union in Europe it changes our relationship to Europe,’ he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme. ‘It gives an opportunity for two things. Firstly it gives us an opportunity to negotiate for the looser form of Europe that I would have liked to have seen in the 1990s.
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It looks like it may be time for Britain to "Renegotiate" its contract with the EU...