By Bagehot
TODAY’s Financial Times carries a letter from 14 Conservative MPs elected in the 2010 intake, who—the FT reports—are trying to create a new moderate school of Euroscepticism. The lead author, Chris Heaton-Harris, is a man to watch. He is a former member of the European Parliament and thus unusually knowledgeable about the workings of the European Union, while his robust dislike of European integration gives him credibility with his peers, who are probably the most Eurosceptic cohort of Tory MPs ever. I would not be astonished to see him in government before many of his contemporaries.