After the announcement from several key figures that they will campaign for the UK to leave the EU despite the government’s formal position to stay in, the Conservative Party is in turmoil.

But this dispute is not about Europe. No matter what David Cameron came back with from Brussels by way of a deal, it would not have been enough for parts of his party. Many Tories have spent 20 years in an existential crisis over the tension between British and Tory identity.

The EU has always been a political and economic union. It is only British PMs who have deluded themselves and their respective parties otherwise. Even those who favor the EU seek to portray it only as an economic partnership.

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