Conservative MPs to open Commons campaign for in-out EU referendum

Hundreds of Tory MPs will attend Commons for second reading of James Wharton's bill to force in-out vote by 2017 James Wharton's private member's bill requires an in-out vote on the UK's membership of the EU by 2017. Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA Conservative MPs start the long process of securing an in-out referendum on the EU by 2017 on Friday, amid growing signs Labour may try to trump the Tories by backing a similar vote before the general election. Hundreds of Tory MPs will turn up at Westminster to vote for the second reading of a bill to introduce...