Britain's Osborne Spells Out Mandate on EU Referendum

Emboldened by his party's election triumph, Britain's finance minister said Tuesday his government has a “very clear mandate” to change the terms of the country's membership in the European Union before it holds a referendum on whether to leave the bloc altogether. The Conservatives' promise to hold an in/out referendum by 2017 was a key plank of their manifesto in the general election last week. The party's top brass, including Prime Minister David Cameron, have...

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