Speaking ahead of the Prime Minister signing the renamed EU Constitution tomorrow, Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said:

“Gordon Brown’s signature on the renamed EU Constitution tomorrow will not have the British people’s democratic support. This Treaty didn’t feature in Labour’s or any other party’s election manifesto.

“British voters were promised a referendum on the EU Constitution and just about everyone agrees that this Treaty is in substance the same.

“Gordon Brown said he’d restore trust in politics. He said he’d consult and listen to the people more. Like his other summer promises, those words have turned out to mean nothing.

“Gordon Brown has even managed to turn something as simple as signing the EU Treaty into a national embarrassment. What will other EU leaders think of a Prime Minister who dithers for a week about whether he dares be photographed putting pen to paper? Does he think that other European prime ministers don’t have diary commitments too? Instead of leadership we have indecision, gutlessness and broken election promises. Britain deserves better.”