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Mr Miliband's approach since March has been that Labour will not hold a referendum on EU membership unless there are proposals to transfer further powers from London to Brussels.

At its heart lies a European "referendum lock": a pledge to hold a popular vote on any transfer of further powers from Britain to the European Union.Conservative MPs who distrust the EU ie, most of them seem glumly certain that the referendum lock is a piffling idea, a gimmick that will do little to defend British interests.

Is that a problem for a country keen to take on further powers from Westminster?

There are no definitive plans to devolve control of fracking to Wales but the result of talks among MPs on transferring further powers from Westminster is due to be published next month.

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So you reject further powers for Scotland?

Mr Clegg said he had long supported the principle of a referendum although his party opposes Conservatives' calls for one in 2017 and said it should only be triggered if further powers went from the UK to the EU.

Labour has said it will only sanction a referendum if further powers are handed from the UK to Brussels requiring a fundamental change to existing treaties.

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Simon Hughes, whose party opposes a referendum on the EU unless further powers are handed from Westminster to Brussels, said a 2014 referendum would be a "barmy" distraction from attempts to boost UK economic growth.

Labour has promised an in-out referendum on the UK's membership of the EU if further powers are transferred from London to Brussels, but admits this is "unlikely" during the next Parliament.

But the Lib Dems claimed they had delivered further powers against "much resistance" from the Tories.