Summary
Should Britain stay in the European Union? With the crisis continuing in the eurozone, recent polls suggest that the vast majority of the British electorate would be in favour of a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union. Evan Davis chairs a debate at the London School of Economics, and is joined by Sir Stephen Wall. The former diplomat and EU adviser to Tony Blair argues his position for Britain to remain in the EU against a panel which wants Britain out.
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| 0:43.7 | Recorded in front of a live audience at the London School of Economics and Political |
| 0:47.7 | Science, Evan Davis hears the arguments for and against Britain's |
| 0:52.1 | membership of the European Union. |
| 0:54.0 | Hello and welcome to our debate tonight. |
| 1:01.0 | We're here at the London School of Economics and |
| 1:03.5 | Political Science in the Old Theatre with a large audience of interested members of |
| 1:08.1 | the public and students from the London School of Economics too. Our motion is |
| 1:12.4 | Britain should remain within the EU. |
| 1:14.6 | You of course can join the debate on Twitter. Use the hashtag hash LSE Europe. |
| 1:20.4 | And it is fair to say Britain's relationship with Europe is a very unsettled one right now. |
| 1:25.0 | The Eurozone is struggling to stay intact. |
| 1:28.0 | To do so, there's the prospect of fast and deep integration, banking union, fiscal union, political union, and if it all happens, |
| 1:35.0 | Britain's relationship with the European Union will clearly be affected. |
| 1:39.1 | You may take one of many, many different views on the way to go from here from the most skeptic to the |
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