Brown rebuffs referendum pressure

United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced down renewed demands on 6 September 2007 that he put a new European Union reform treaty to a referendum, with pressure mounting from a cross-party campaign called 'I want a referendum', including some of his own backbenchers and trade unionists.

Website: I Want a Referendum http://www.iwantareferendum.com/

BBC News, 6.9.07: MPs push Brown for EU treaty vote http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6981337.stm

BBC News, 7.9.07: Mandelson warning on EU vote call http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6984032.stm

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