Why Cameron will say all the wrong things on the EU

In an article in the Financial Times last October, Charles Grant of the CER wrote of a multi-tier Europe rather than a concentric one, and said: "Life in the third tier need not be uncomfortable for the UK. If it makes an effort to win friends and allies among its partners, including those in the euro, it will have an influential voice in EU decision-making. Yet successive British governments have done too little to forge alliances with those - such as the central Europeans, Nordics and Dutch - who tend to think like the British on some key issues."