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David Cameron wants to remove the commitment to “ever closer union” from the EU treaty, as part of plans to reform Britain’s membership of the bloc. Speaking in a BBC interview Sunday (29 September), on the eve of his Conservative Party’s annual conference in Manchester, the UK prime minister said that the phrase was “not what the British people want and it’s not what I want.” Cameron also repeated his threat to withdraw Britain from the European Convention of Human Rights unless his government is allowed to quickly deport foreign nationals deemed to be a security threat. …