In political gamble, David Cameron takes on Brussels


Prime Minister David Cameron gets into his car after meeting Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond and signing the referendum agreement at St Andrews House in Edinburgh, Scotland October 15, 2012. REUTERS/David Moir

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron has ditched EU policing rules and allowed a close ally to float the idea of Britain quitting the bloc altogether, taking on Brussels in a gamble that has proved the undoing of predecessors.

The salvoes against Europe could prove popular with voters but dangerous for Cameron - exposing discord both within his historically fractious Conservative Party and between it and its junior coalition partners, the pro-Europe Lib Dems.

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