As a politician you get used to being misquoted - often deliberately so by your political opponents. However, it was distressing to find out earlier this week that I was completely misquoted by a benevolent source which inadvertently got my views on a couple of key issues completely the wrong way round. For the record, I do not support a Europe-wide referendum (I indeed explained my reason for this in a blog entry, which you can read by click here).

Nor have I said that it would be an outrage to support the deletion of the full text of the Charter of Rights from Part 2 of the Constitutional Treaty and its replacement by a single article containing a cross-reference to it.