Dear Mr Barker, 

I am the Editor of the Candidlist, which seeks to list the opinions on European integration of Parliamentary Candidates at the next election. The lists are available on the Internet and have generated much comment in the media. 

You can access the Candidlist and the media comment surrounding it by going to www.candidlist.com - you will notice that we have had about seventy thousand visitors in the past year. 

I have been given your name as a Conservative Candidate, and so am writing to ask your answers to the following questions: 

1) If elected or re-elected to Parliament, would you oppose our joining the Eurozone even if joining were to be recommended by the Party leadership? 

2) If elected or re-elected to Parliament and required to choose between accepting the supremacy of European Union law in this country and leaving the European Union, would you vote for British withdrawal? 

I must emphasise that Candidlist does not support any political party and that its sole purpose is to enable concerned electors to make an informed choice among candidates of all the main parties. 

Before answering either of the above questions, I do strongly urge you to look at the General Introduction to Candidlist given on our web site. I also suggest that you should inspect the lists of names and some of the published correspondence. It is the practice of Candidlist to publish correspondence with candidates. Otherwise, please feel free to contact me, and I shall try to answer any question that you may have. 
 

Yours sincerely, 

Dr Sean Gabb 
Candidlist Webmaster 

Dear Dr Gabb

Thank you very much for your email.

William Hague has, I am pleased to say, clearly stated our party's European policy, is committed to saving the pound and is staunch in the defence of British sovereignty. I support him 100%.

I cannot conceive of a situation where the leadership of the Conservative Party in government would not put the interests of Britain first, so I think it would be most unhelpful to publicly speculate otherwise in response to your hypothetical questions.

Yours sincerely

Gregory Barker
PPC BEXHILL & BATTLE

Dear Mr Barker,

Many thanks for your e-mail of last Thursday.

On the basis of your answers, I have decided to leave you classified as a don't know, but am grateful for your taking to time to give a reason for doing so.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Sean Gabb
Candidlist Webmaster