• Calls for a leaner, less bureaucratic EU
• Small firms should be exempt from further EU directives
• Costly institutions are hard to justify
• 2nd principle of the EU must be flexibility
• Not all countries want the same level of integration, diversity should be welcomed
• ‘Let’s stop all this talk of a 2 speed Europe’
• Flexibility will unite EU members more closely
• believes in Flexible union of free EU states
• Need to cooperate on security issues and energy supply
• New countries should be welcomed into the EU
• Need for a bigger role for EU national parliaments, which are a real source of legitimacy
• UK public’s disillusion with the EU is at an all time high
• British public resents interference in national life, asking for a return to common market
• People have never been given a say in the matter
• Democratic consent for the EU is ‘wafer-thin’