D Cameron’s top advisors “worked for the EU”

New research by the Labour Leave campaign has found that half of the PM’s EU negotiation team accepted a “duty of loyalty” to the EU which raises serious questions about whether they will push to get a good deal for the UK. David Cameron’s Chief of Staff Ed Llewellyn and Special Advisor Daniel Korski both worked for the EU. This means that:

Both Llewellyn and Korski accepted a ‘duty of loyalty’ to the EU,requiring them to conduct themselves in the interests of the Union.
Even though both Llewellyn and Korski have since left their roles in the Commission, their obligations to the EU are not superseded by their duty of loyalty to the Crown.
Any failure – whether ‘intentional or negligent’ – by Llewellyn or Korski to comply with their continuing obligations to the EU makes them ‘liable to disciplinary action’.
They are legally obliged to keep potentially useful information about the EU from the Prime Minister.
Not only must they seek approval from the EU before disclosing information on the work of the Union, but both could be subject to financial penalties should they breach their duties to the EU.
Labour Leave Co-Chairman Kelvin Hopkins said:

“I am hugely worried that Cameron’s closest Tory advisers owe an oath of loyalty to the EU. People will ask whether they are actually trying to negotiate a deal that will benefit Britain at all?

“I want to see an end to the supremacy of EU law in the UK – so that we can take control back from EU judges and bureaucrats. Instead of giving £350 million a week to the EU I would like us to spend it on our priorities, like the NHS.

“These Tories’ duties to the EU will mean that won’t happen. What’s worse, it could lead them to develop a neo-liberal EU plan to unravel important rights for workers here in the UK. That’s why we need to Vote Leave in the EU referendum and take back control.”