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Levelling the Playing Field - 4th November 2002, 21.57

The government ensured that it would be able to follow the example of the Irish administration and outspend any of its opponents in a referendum on the Euro. Business for Sterling had decided to stop their little game and take proceedings to the High Court to prevent this shameful and one-sided waste of our money.

They have sent a letter to Lord Irvine and are expecting a reply by the 1st December 2002. Their legal opinion is here in pdf format from Simon Kovats, specialist in public law. It will be ironic if this government is hung out to dry on its own liberal agenda, as the no campaign is using Sections 10 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights to press their case.