Top Tory branded a Trotskyist for piling pressure on PM

BBC man compares Cameron's awkward eurosceptics to ‘The Bastards’ who riled John Major

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Eurosceptic former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson was branded a “Trotskyist” by a senior BBC correspondent this morning for setting out a radical series of “undeliverable” demands for David Cameron over Britain’s membership of the EU.

Norman Smith, the BBC’s assistant political editor, said Paterson “clearly does not trust Mr Cameron at all” because he was demanding reforms on free movement of people, the Common Agricultural Policy, foreign affairs and justice.

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