Eurosceptic’s warning on EU pact

Bill Cash said the Government was taking both political and legal risks by suggesting the need for action while failing to explain how it will carry it through or what concessions it seeks.

Mr Cash, Conservative MP for Stone, spoke out as the European Scrutiny Committee, which he chairs, published a report into the Stability, Coordination and Governance Treaty – intended to resolve the crisis in the eurozone and backed by 25 of 27 EU governments, but rejected by the UK.

The committee warns that the treaty may be “politically impossible to enforce” and that while such an outcome may be undesirable, “some form of breakdown of the eurozone clearly remains possible”.

Mr Cash said: “Politically and legally, it is profoundly unwise for the Government to suggest taking action, and then not to explain how it intends to carry it through.”