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European Council

Against the background of this historic opportunity, does the Prime Minister recall the words of William Pitt, who said in 1801:"““England has saved herself by her exertions and will, I trust, save Europe by her example.””?" In the light of what the Prime Minister has said, does he also recall that it is highly improbable that William Pitt would have signed the constitutional treaty, but that Churchill said that we should be ““associated but not absorbed””? Will the Prime Minister take this opportunity to take up the message that Churchill issued and then say that he would agree to co-operate with those of us who have just set up the European reform forum to look at all the existing treaties and then find the way forward? This is a historic opportunity. Will the Prime Minister help us to co-operate in finding the way forward in the interests of this country?