By Michael Forsyth, Lordly Pundit

When the Yeomen of the Guard carried out their traditional search of the cellars at Westminster for gunpowder and plots last week, they found nothing amiss.

The high explosive under the Coalition was to be found elsewhere. Lord Lawson, with all the authority of a former chancellor, who had fought hard for Britain to join the exchange-rate mechanism, destroyed the Prime Minister’s position on Europe, which had taken the best part of a year to construct, by declaring that the emperor had no clothes.

In Scotland, Mr Cameron has rightly criticised Alex Salmond for delaying the independence referendum because of the damaging uncertainty created for business. The Government has also refused to engage in any negotiations about currency, debt, pensions, defence, North Sea oil revenues and other important issues, which in the event of a vote for separation would take years to sort out.

The Prime Minister has insisted that the principle of Scotland’s continuing membership of the UK must be settled first. Yet on Europe he says just the opposite: that we must endure a long and costly period of uncertainty, and a pre-referendum negotiation.

Extracted from -Telegraph : Right: it’s time to leave