Brown is back on the warpath for the EU vote

Press quote (Evening Standard)
22 April 2016
From 
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/londoners-diary-hilary-s-lightbulb-moment-returns-to-haunt-hurley-a3231426.html

The former Prime Minister, speaking at the evening at the Royal Society, organised by the Centre for European Reform, pointed out how important it was for Britain to be in the room for EU discussions. Among the guests and speakers were  J P Morgan's Stephanie Flanders, economist Vicky Pryce and George Osborne's former chief of staff Rupert Harrison. Brown recounted the negotiations in 1999 to ensure Britain and other EU countries not in the single currency were allowed into the group's financial discussions.  

There seemed to have been some resistance to the idea back when he was Chancellor, which he pushed to overcome. Brown said the then French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin had said to him: "You British, you understand clubs. You’ve got to understand you are either in or out."