Stuart Wheeler: Tories offer a 'cowardly selection of weasel words'

Businessman, political philanthropist and record donor to the Conservative Party Stuart Wheeler will tomorrow talk on the EU and what the Conservatives should be doing about it.

Stuart Wheeler will say at the Bruges Group meeting;"Will Ken Clarke vote against the Lisbon Treaty if there is a referendum on it? William Hague says that he expects, expects, mark you, that he will. What kind of language is that? Why doesn’t William Hague know how Clarke will vote? Did he and David Cameron not ask him that simple question before they appointed him to the shadow cabinet? Ken Clarke himself was quite specific on the subject as a backbencher; he said that “calls for a referendum were absurd”.

“William Hague indicated that the Conservatives were likely to attempt to scrap the treaty – possibly by calling a retrospective referendum. Heavens above! What the voters want is categorical commitments, not a cowardly selection of weasel words”.

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Vodafone appoints new Legal and Government Affairs Director

Vodafone UK announced yesterday that Justine Campbell is joining the company on July 1 as Legal and Government Affairs Director.

Justine has worked in the telecommunications industry for more than ten years and most recently was General Counsel and a Director on the Telefonica Europe Board. Before this, she was Chief Counsel, Competition Law at 02, following two years at BT as Competition and Regulatory Counsel and five years at Freshfields, where she first qualified.

This appointment follows the move by existing Legal and Regulatory Director, Jonathan McCoy, to Vodafone Group Deputy General Counsel.

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