The Conservatives scrapped their plan on Tuesday to hold a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon treaty after Czech President Vaclav Klaus became the last EU leader to ratify it. Skip related content
"What has happened today means that it is no longer possible to have a referendum on the Lisbon treaty," the party's shadow foreign secretary William Hague told television networks.
Conservative leader David Cameron will announce on Wednesday what policy the Conservatives will take on the Lisbon treaty if they win a national election due by next June, as they are favourites to do.
(Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Avril Ormsby)
Tributes have been paid to a schoolgirl who died after slipping in her high heels and falling under a train while waving goodbye to her friends.
