David Cameron recently gave a major speech on Europe, promising a referendum on Britiain's membership in the European Union. This was widely seen as a bold move. Andrew Rawnsley, a political analyst for the Observer newspaper, says it will prove "disastrous" and backfire, splitting Cameron's Conservative ("Tory") Party and making it harder for Cameron and the Tories to win re-election in 2015. British Conservatives have been divided over the EU for at least 30 years now; it was those divisions that prompted Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's colleagues to force her resignation in 1990.
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