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Michael Portillo, the former defence minister, last night reinforced his Euro-sceptic credentials in a speech in Washington warning that mem- bership of the European single currency will end Britain's special relationship with the US.
He was due to tell the American Enterprise Institute the "headlong rush" into a single currency looked "perilous".
The euro would lead to the imposition of common EU policies on Britain destroying the special relationship.
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