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PM faces EU referendum challenge
Government departments have made no provision for a No vote in a referendum
Prime Minister David Cameron's wheeze of dangling the distant promise of a referendum on EU membership by 2017 will face challenges in the Commons today.
Mr Cameron has urged his MPs to back a private member's Bill introduced by Tory backbencher James Wharton that demands an EU referendum before December 2017.
But millionaire Tory rebel Adam Afriyie MP has threatened to move an amendment demanding a referendum by October 23 2014 - before the next election.
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