Clegg to Cameron: Your renegotiation will either be insubstantial or impossible. Cameron to Clegg: “I know.”

The foundation of David Cameron’s referendum case to remain in the EU is that Britain should stay in a reformed EU – and that his recent deal represents real reform.

To throw light on this claim, we simply reproduce, without further comment, a section from David Laws’s newly-published memoirs, as serialised in this morning’s Mail on Sunday. Laws relates a Coalition-period conversation between himself and Nick Clegg about another between Clegg and Cameron: