Those who say that Britons don't care about Europe would have been in for a shock.
On Wednesday (15 January) the Westminster elite flocked to the headquarters of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, just a few hundred metres away from Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, for a two-day conference on EU reform.
Several hundred delegates packed into the institute's handsome lecture theatre for a keynote speech by Chancellor George Osborne.
The so-called breakout discussions...
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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.