Spectre of Europe Haunts Cameron; POLITICS: Ireland's 'Yes' Vote Raises Issue Again on Eve of Conference

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Byline: Telegraph reporter

TORY leader David Cameron is fighting to prevent a damaging new rift over Europe dominating his final party conference before the general election.

As activists gathered in Manchester, he rejected calls by Conservative Eurosceptics for a commitment to press ahead with his promised referendum on the controversial Lisbon Treaty, regardless of whether it had been implemented by the time an incoming Conservative government had taken power.

Mr Cameron, instead, sought to focus attention on his pounds 600 million "Get Britain Working" plan which propose to scrap Labour's flagship New Deal programme and replace it with a simplified …