A final attempt by the British opposition to get a referendum on the EU's Lisbon treaty is close to failing after the Liberal Democrat members of the country's upper house suggested they would vote against such a move.
Britain's biggest opposition party, the Conservatives, were hoping the Liberal Democrats would abstain from vote on the proposal to hold a popular poll on the EU treaty just as they did in the House of Commons.
But the abstention would have a different implication i...
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