Marc Champion, Columnist

When Is Retreat Not Defeat? In U.K. Debate on Europe

On growing calls from UK conservative heavyweights to pull out of the EU

May 9, 2013 at 1:14 PM UTC

Marc Champion is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Europe, Russia and the Middle East. He was previously Istanbul bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.

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It's as though it took the death of Margaret Thatcher to release the old warhorses of the Conservative Party to go public and say the U.K. should leave the European Union.

Today it was Michael Portillo'sturn. Portillo is a former Cabinet minister. He was, at one point, the Thatcherite great young hope to lead the Tory party, until he lost his seat in parliament. He is still listened to.