Cameron backs down over EPP?
The move follows months of negotiations in which the bloc of Tory MEPs failed to find suitable allies. Mr Cameron is expected to announce that his plans to form a grouping with the Czech centre right Civic Democrat Party (ODS) will go ahead only after 2009.
Doesn't say much for Cameron's negotiation skills - he flew to the Czech Republic two weeks ago to try to persuade them in person to leave the EPP and join the Tories in a new group now, but failed.
The pledge to leave the EPP within a year of him becoming leader, was the one firm promise Cameron made in his leadership campaign - and if certain Eurosceptics hadn't believed him and taken him at his word, he wouldn't have got elected.
So, a man whose negotiation skills are rubbish, and a man who'll say anything to get elected and then go back on his word - that's David Cameron!


