The European Reform Forum (ERF) is a committee of senior British politicians, journalists, academics, and businessmen who are seeking to produce a report on the future direction of the

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. The members are drawn predominantly from a Conservative background. It was launched on 30 June 2005 in the

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in front of a large number of press. Over the six months of the UK presidency of the European Council the ERF took evidence from numerous people on both sides of the debate and produced a final report in December 200

It advocated the renegotiation of British membership.

Membership

* Chairman - David Waddington, Baron Waddington, Lord Waddington

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PC QC DL *

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CH PC *

Lord Weatherill Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, (25 November 1920 – 6 May 2007) was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1983 and 1992. Family He was the son of Bernard Bruce Weatherill ( ...

PC DL *

Lord Rees-Mogg William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg (14 July 192829 December 2012) was a British newspaper journalist who was Editor of ''The Times'' from 1967 to 1981. In the late 1970s, he served as High Sheriff of Somerset, and in the 1980s was Chairman of th ...

* Lord Blackwell * Sir Oliver Wright

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MP * Bernard Jenkin MP * Secretary -

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MP * Brigadier

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MBE MEP * Professor Tim Congdon

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* Professor Patrick Minford CBE * Martin Howe QC * Roger Brooke * Andrew Roberts *

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People who have given evidence

* Lord Howell of Guildford PC * Professor

Lord Wallace of Saltaire William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, (born 12 March 1941 in Leicester), is a British academic, writer, and Liberal Democrat politician, who was a Lord in Waiting from 2010 to 2015. Early life Wallace was educated at West ...

Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist. He is best known for thrillers such as ''The Day of the Jackal'', ''The Odessa File'', '' The Fourth Protocol'', '' The Dogs of War'', ''The Devil's Alter ...

CBE * Charles Grant, Director of the

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External links

European Reform Forum website
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