Britain will no longer be ‘Great’

Quitting the European Union would leave Britain could no longer call itself ‘Great’, the French foreign minister. Laurent Fabius claimed any move to by the UK to sever ties with Brussels would leave the country diminished on the world stage as ‘Small Britain’.

 

The extraordinary intervention came as Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage prepared to go head to head in their second live TV debate on Britain’s membership of the EU. David Cameron has promised to claw back powers from Brussels before staging an in-out referendum by the end of 2o17.

 

The Tory pledge was designed to head off the threat posed by Mr Farage’s Ukip, which wants Britain to leave the EU altogether. Mr Cameron has sought to build alliances with Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.

 

But socialist France has insisted reform is not a priority.

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