Daniel Hannan is a Conservative Member of the European Parliament. He spoke to CUCA in Michaelmas 2008. With Douglas Carswell MP, he is author of “The Plan: 12 months to renew Britain.

One of the advantages of leaving the European People’s Party is that we will get more influence. Because he is not a member, Mr Hannan was the only Conservative to speak when Gordon Brown visited the European Parliament today. Here is what he said:

“Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words. Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the word condition of any G20 country.

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.”

Do watch the whole thing. If only we could have seen Gordon Brown’s face.