Clarke's passion spent

摘要

On april 3rd, the cabinet agreed that a pledge of a referendum before Britain joined any European single currency would be included in the Tory election manifesto. Now that it is made, the decision seems natural, sensible, even humdrum. So it may now seem fantastic to record that, bar John Major's skill and luck, this Easter weekend could have been marked by a political passion: in the aftermath of the resignation of Kenneth Clarke, the chancellor, the dissolution of Britain's Conservative government.