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No2EU accuses Deputy PM of undermining global democracy

Anxious Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg ruffled feathers within the Con-Dem coalition yesterday by accusing many Tory MPs of "openly flirting" with the idea of leaving the EU.

He confessed: "The day I dread - the day I hope never comes - is a time when it is all too late and Britain has stumbled out of the EU."

Mr Clegg claimed that leaving the EU would be "economic suicide."

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