Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said business leaders have a 'patriotic duty' make the case for Brussels Labour today urged supporters of the European Union to speak out before it is 'too late'. Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said business leaders have a 'patriotic duty' make the case for Brussels. And he warned that the Conservative Party's approach to Europe poses 'the biggest risk to British national prosperity in a generation'. David Cameron has promised that if he remains prime minister after the election he will renegotiate Britain's EU membership before holding an in-out referendum by 2017. He has made clear that without agreement on curbing benefits, he will 'rule nothing out' – raising the prospect of backing Britain's exit from the EU if he does not get his way.
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Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander urges business to speak out
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Says companies have a 'patriotic duty' make the case for Brussels
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Warns the Tory EU plan poses 'biggest risk to British national prosperity'
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David Cameron has promised an in-out referendum before 2017
'The truth is that a @placeholder government in 2015 would mean breaking not simply with the record of the last government, it would mean breaking with decades of history that have defined the country we are today, how our country is run, and the place we have in the world,' he said.