Gisela Stuart, the German-born Labour MP who took part in the drafting of the EU Constitution and who recently, in a fiercely critical attack, called upon Gordon Brown to honour his party's manifesto promise to hold a Referendum on the issue, has returned to the attack, as today's Daily Mail reports.

Ms. Stuart's insistence that this promise be honoured is of the utmost importance. She is plainly an intelligent woman, as you might expect of someone who had to tackle the convolutions of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's impenetrable magnum opus, and, whilst one may be forgiven for disagreeing with her general political outlook, she deserves the very fullest hearing from us all on this issue upon which she must be accounted an expert.

Ms. Stuart is in no doubt whatsoever as to the very grave and far-reaching implications of the Constitutional Treaty as it is now drafted (and is due to come into force on 1st. January 2009): The revived EU constitution will pave the way for the first European 'government' with sweeping powers over Britain, where the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom would be forced to represent the interests of the European Union rather those of the UK.

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