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We've now got 27 countries locked together and some of those locked into a single currency in a way which will not address the original problem.

Far from it if you turn on your television sets and watch what's happening in Greece,

what may well happen in Spain and Italy, a deep resentment of the Germans who are currently damned if they don't. I'm just so

sad about it because it didn't need to happen that way. The MP Giesler

Stewart has the kind of background that should make her a solid member of

Labour's pro-European mainstream. She's German by birth and on the right of the

party. But in an interview for this program she's gone public with a view that is by her own account

regarded as heresy on the labor benches. She thinks Britain should leave the

European Union. People keep saying well we can't leave because we benefit from the single market well you

can benefit from the single market and have a trading relationship and I think this is

increasingly in Britain's interest to do that.

So you think we should leave the formal structures of the European Union

and have some kind of relationship but in terms of the position that we have at the moment as a

full member of the European Union that should end? You're quite clear in your mind about that. I think ultimately it has to go that way yes.

For the past quarter of a century division over Europe has been a Tory curse.

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