Ukip 'in European offer to Tories'
Updated on 28 November 2009
Ukip offered not to fight the Tories at the next general election in return for a pledge to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty even after it was ratified, the eurosceptic party's new leader has revealed.
Ex-Tory peer Lord Pearson of Rannoch said he took the proposed deal to the Conservative leader in the upper house, Lord Strathclyde, after Ukip beat Labour into third place in this June's European elections.
Last month Mr Cameron dropped his promise of a national vote when the treaty was finally ratified by all EU member states - angering the new Ukip leader as well as many of his own backbenchers.
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