French plea for 'flexible EU' attacked by Straw

...and they scoff when the Tories propose a multi-speed Europe as a sensible way forward and pretend that they have an isolated view which would never hold water!

I seriously think this is the second stage of Blair's 'referendum' pledge. He's trying to destroy the Constitution now so that he doesn't have to lose a vote on it: at the same time he's banking on keeping the support of European leaders who will see him as less of a threat to integration and less belligerent than Howard.