The UK’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron was left reeling after former Tory chancellor and party grandee Nigel Lawson told Britain should withdraw from the Union.

The previously pro-European Lord Lawson, a well-respected politician who was the country’s longest serving Conservative chancellor in the 20th Century, urged Cameron to bring forward a referendum on British membership of the European Union, slated to take place before 2017.

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