What you can't do is have a situation where you get a rejection of the treaty and then you just bring it back with a few amendments and say we will have another go. You can't do that and I am not going to get drawn into speculating the way forward because I don't intend to lose the referendum.

It has been an unrelenting, but, I have to accept, at least partly successful campaign to persuade Britain that Europe is a conspiracy aimed at us, rather than…

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First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.