PMQs: David Cameron grilled on Europe in the Commons - live

11.50 Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander: “We do not
believe an in-out referendum is justified.”

11.48 Health Minister Dan Poulter backs elements of the Fresh Start
report on the Daily Politics, while Labour’s Douglas Alexander says now is
not the time to commit to an in-out referendum

11.43 Andrea Leadsom, one of the leaders of the Fresh Start group of
MPs, is on the BBC’s Daily Politics. She says leaving the EU would be a “disaster”
for the British economy but says she wants powers to be repatriated.

11.40 David Cameron was ” very saddened to learn” about the
deaths and injuries in today’s helicopter crash in Vauxhall, his spokesman
has said ahead of PMQs.

11.37 Benedict Brogan, the Daily Telegraph’s deputy editor, has this to
say about the Fresh Start group of Tories today:

Even if, as is unlikely, Mr Cameron were to adopt all its suggestions –
repatriation of all social and employment law, an opt-out from all policing
and criminal justice rules, an emergency brake on new anti-City legislation
and an end to the monthly shuttle between Brussels and Strasbourg – it is a
stretch to imagine this agenda finding much favour across the Channel,
despite Andrea Leadsom’s optimism on Today. Will Fresh Start’s members thank
him for trying, or keep up the pressure?

11.31 The Telegraph today revealed a group of Conservative MPs wants
David Cameron to seize back control of employment and social laws from
Brussels and stop European nationals from claiming benefits in this country.
Read our story
here.

11.30 Welcome to the Prime Minister’s Question Time liveblog for
January 16 2012.

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