The Daily Express crusade to force a debate on pulling out of the EU continues to gather momentum.

Tory and Labour MPs believe that Chancellor George Osborne’s hopes for a single eurozone tax system will lead to the EU becoming a fundamentally different organisation to the one the UK joined in 1973. Many also fear that Britain will come under intense pressure to adapt its tax and regulatory policies to conform more closely with the eurozone once fiscal union is under way, even if the UK remains outside the single currency. Steve Baker, Tory MP for Wycombe, said: “It is very clear that the EU is heading at full speed towards being one country.” **CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION TODAY** Like other Tory and Labour MPs, Mr Baker has signed up to an In/Out referendum being championed by fellow Conservative Zac Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park & North Kingston.

It is very clear that the EU is heading at full speed towards being one country. Steve Baker, Tory MP for Wycombe

His comments come as the Daily Express crusade to force a Commons debate on Britain pulling out of the EU continues to gather momentum. All demands that gain at least 100,000 online signatures on the Government’s new e-petition website have to be considered for a debate in Parliament. The Daily Express website has already gathered 75,000 online signatures calling for a referendum and we are pressing for those names to be added to the official petition. Our move comes amid a fierce Europe-wide debate on the future of the EU and the single currency. The Commons European scrutiny committee is to conduct its own inquiries into the effect that fiscal union for the eurozone would have on the UK’s economic independence.