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David Cameron's gamble: Fault lines — in U.K. and abroad — harden ahead of EU votes
"My criticism is not necessarily with there being a referendum. My criticism is with there being a renegotiation and then a referendum," says John Springford, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform in London.
"The problem is that he was never going to get very much."