Prime Minister David Cameron is definitely feeling the pressure these days. Sir John Major has now weighed in, along with others, to put pressure on Cameron to use the eurozone crisis to demand that the UK take back power from the EU.
Just yesterday, Sir John Major surprised those in the Tory circles by declaring that now is the right time to insist on “looser” ties between the UK and the EU. He warned, at a Conservative conference last week, that Europe was going down the road towards a “federal state within the eurozone.”
In terms of Greece’s default, Sir John said that he thinks it’s time to get the default “out of the way” and that the debt default should be done without the eurozone.
Time will tell how PM Cameron will respond to these pressures, but they will certainly be hard to ignore.