Theresa May tells MPs UK government wants EU law opt-out
The government plans to exercise its right to opt out of 130 EU measures on law and order, Home Secretary Theresa May has told MPs.
She said current government thinking was to return control to the UK in two years under an opt-out agreed during Lisbon Treaty negotiations.
It would mean opting out of the European Arrest Warrant, which the Lib Dems supported at the last election.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19944072
Meanwhile :
Nick Clegg aide urges Lib Dems to attack EU justice opt-out 'open goal'
Nick Clegg's office sent out private briefings to Liberal Democrat MPs on Monday urging them to condemn Theresa May's plans to pull out of all EU judicial co-operation as an example of Eurosceptic Tory dogma being put before the need to keep UK families safe from criminals.
In a sign of the scale of the rift at the top of the coalition, the briefing paper says the home secretary's decision represents "an open goal for the Liberal Democrats".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/15/lib-dems-eu-justice-optout
