http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspap...370872,00.html
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CONSERVATIVE Eurosceptics are to step up pressure on Michael Howard to harden his party’s policy on the European Union after a poll suggesting that the British people — particularly the young — would back a renegotiation of Britain’s membership terms.
A survey by ICM for the European Foundation over the weekend indicated that 58 per cent agreed that Britain should renegotiate EU treaties so that they were reduced to trade and association agreements.
The poll found that 68 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds backed a policy of renegotiation. It also suggested that
63 per cent of professionals and managers backed that policy, which has always been seen as a crucial step towards withdrawal from the EU. Sixty per cent of the skilled working classes supported it.
There were regional variations. Some 63 per cent of people in the South East and 65 per cent in Scotland supported renegotiation, a stance from which Mr Howard has always kept clear.
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Go on, have a poll, have a policy.