{"id":3315,"date":"2013-05-08T04:24:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/ex-british-finance-minister-calls-for-eu-exit\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T04:24:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:24:54","slug":"ex-british-finance-minister-calls-for-eu-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/ex-british-finance-minister-calls-for-eu-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-British finance minister calls for EU exit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Britain should leave the European Union, former finance minister Nigel Lawson argued Tuesday, fuelling the debate about a referendum on British membership.<\/p>\n

Writing in The Times newspaper, Lawson said Britain would get a big economic boost if it left the EU and insisted the “the case for exit” was now clear.<\/p>\n

Lawson is the most senior member of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party to call for Britain to pull out of the EU.<\/p>\n

The Thatcher-era heavyweight said the economic gains from a British exit “would substantially outweigh the costs” and argued that the EU had become a “bureaucratic monstrosity”.<\/p>\n

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He warned that the idea of “a federal European superstate” was “profoundly misguided” and “certainly not for us”.<\/p>\n

Lawson also claimed that an exit would save Britain’s valuable financial sector from a “frenzy of regulatory activism”.<\/p>\n

Cameron has promised to hold a referendum on EU membership after the next general election in 2015, but is being urged to bring it forward by members of his own party.<\/p>\n

The pressure to do so has increased following big gains made by the eurosceptic and anti-immigration United Kingdom Independence Party in local elections last week.<\/p>\n

UKIP hopes to translate growing public support into seats in parliament at the expense of the three main political parties.<\/p>\n

Cameron wants to renegotiate Britain’s membership of the EU before putting it to a vote, but Lawson said he was likely to secure only “inconsequential” concessions.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said he welcomed the attention Lawson’s intervention brought to his policy.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s been a good day for the pledge that I have made that if re-elected, I will hold an in-out referendum so that everybody can have not just a voice about Britain’s future in Europe but also can have a vote.<\/p>\n

“I want to give people a choice not between the status quo and leaving the EU; I want to give people a proper choice between Britain remaining in a reformed EU or leaving that EU.”<\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, leader of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat junior partners in the governing coalition, claimed leaving the bloc would put three million jobs in danger.<\/p>\n

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