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Labour outlines EU referendum policy Ed Miliband outlines Labour's EU referendum policy
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A future Labour government would give an in/out referendum on the UK's membership of the EU - but only if more powers were transferred from Britain to Brussels, Ed Miliband has said. A future Labour government would call an in/out referendum on the UK's membership of the EU - but only if it was being asked to transfer more powers to Brussels, Ed Miliband has said.
In an article for the Financial Times, the Labour leader said his party "strongly believes Britain's future is in the EU".In an article for the Financial Times, the Labour leader said his party "strongly believes Britain's future is in the EU".
He also criticised the Conservatives' "damaging obsession" with EU policy.He also criticised the Conservatives' "damaging obsession" with EU policy.
The Labour leader will give more details in a speech on Wednesday. He is expected to give more details in a speech on Wednesday.
The party has previously backed holding a referendum if it is proposed that further powers are transferred to Brussels.
But Mr Miliband has now clarified that this would be an in/out referendum.
"This would not just be a referendum on the narrow question of whether to allow a transfer of powers from Britain to Brussels; as we have seen in other countries, such votes are too easily ignored," he wrote.
He also criticised Prime Minister David Cameron's promise of an in/out referendum in 2017, which he described as an "arbitrary timetable" ensuring that "a Conservative government would be dominated by an all-consuming and damaging obsession within his party about whether Britain should leave the EU".
Mr Miliband argued that the reforms required in the EU can be achieved without a new treaty.
In practice, this would mean that an in/out referendum is unlikely to take place under Labour, BBC political editor Nick Robinson said.
The coalition has already enshrined in law a so-called referendum lock, promising a vote on whether to transfer further powers to Brussels if the situation arises - but not on whether to leave the EU.
Conservative attempts to legislate for an in/out referendum in 2017 have been thwarted by the Liberal Democrats, which party leader and deputy PM Nick Clegg describes as "Britain's only party of in".