He has said that ministers with "long-standing and sincerely held" views on the issue would then be free to argue for Britain to leave the EU.
The LPO management states that, for it, "music and politics don't mix" – yet its decision to jeopardise the livelihoods of four talented musicians for expressing their sincerely held views is itself political.
There was fear too of reprisals, and frustration that the events would make it more difficult for them to articulate sincerely held views on the invasions of Iraq and Afganistan and on many other elements of US and British foreign policy.
"While I have declined to adopt O.P.R.'s findings of misconduct, I fear that John Yoo's loyalty to his own ideology and convictions clouded his view of his obligation to his client and led him to author opinions that reflected his own extreme, albeit sincerely held, view of executive power while speaking for an institutional client," Mr. Margolis said.
She added: "I think it's a sincerely held view that the best way to resolve this matter is to be as accommodating as possible to the Israeli government, to seek influence with them and through that to try and move them to a more positive decision.
We recognize that, with one part of themselves, they may sincerely hold views that we abhor, while, with another, they may exercise virtues that we admire.
During his lifetime Disraeli's opponents, and sometimes even his friends and allies, questioned whether he sincerely held the views he propounded, or whether they were adopted by him as essential to one who sought to spend his life in politics, and were mouthed by him without conviction.
"I do wonder whether we have got this quite right, whether there are enough places and spaces on Radio 4 where people can express sincerely held and passionate views in ways that can startle, challenge and even offend," he added.
For me, authenticity is more powerful than sound bites; candid contribution more genuine than sanitized conversation; sincerely held but unpopular views more in demand than careful messaging that conveys little.
And his insistence that all sides of the debate should respect one another's different but sincerely held points of view".
"I sincerely hold the view that you continuing as leader whilst not in the Scottish Parliament, and not in an elected position holding a democratic mandate, means you will become an unhelpful distraction from the real issues that Scottish Labour must focus on," Mr Rowley wrote in a letter to Mr Murphy.
