UK Ken Clarke, the shadow business secretary, admitted that a Conservative government would not try to renegotiate the EU's Lisbon Treaty if it was ratified in an Irish referendum, causing outrage among Eurosceptics in his party.
The comments from Mr Clarke, whose appointment to the post was greeted with hostility by some of the party faithful because of his pro-Europe views, were seized on by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, as showing the Tories in "disarray" over Europe.
