A Note on Richard Benyon

E-mail Dated Thursday the 8th June 2000,
Sean Gabb to Newbury Conservative Association

Dear Sirs,

I am the Webmaster of Candidlist.  As you may know, this is an Internet listing of all Conservative candidates according to their views on European integration.  You will find the Candidlist at:

http://www.candidlist.demon.co.uk
Your present candidate is listed on our site as a don't know.  In order to make the Candidlist more accurate as a source of information for the electors and other interested parties, I shall be grateful if you could submit the following questions to your candidate:

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?

If you cannot answer both of the above in the affirmative, do you accept the line currently taken by William Hague, which is to oppose our joining the Eurozone for this and for the next Parliament and to resist any further British integration into the European Union?

I ask that the candidate should reply directly to me and not via any third party, and I must inform you that this e-mail and any reply to it will be published under your candidate's name on the Candidlist web page.

I look forward to your help and your candidate's help in this matter.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Sean Gabb
Candidlist Webmaster