The Fresh Start group of Tory MPs has published a long list of powers they want repatriated back to the UK. A new pro-European grouping called the Centre of British Influence Through Europe has been established.

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Andrea Leadsom is the leading light of the Fresh Start Group of 100 plus Tory backbenchers, who have been beavering away for quite a while now, working out what this country should seek from a renegotiation of British EU membership.

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The Conservative MP for South Northamptonshire, Andrea Leadsom, a leading member of the backbench Fresh Start group, which is keen to renegotiate the British membership, said she was optimistic that a good compromise could be found in order to make the reforms, as long as the UK was bold in its ambitions.

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