Britain's main opposition party may not get a chance to ask the British people to vote in a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty after Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, became the last head of state to approve the deal to reform the trading bloc. He joined another leader who recently resisted signing the Treaty, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski.

The approval lays to rest the notion that David Cameron's Conservative Party might hold a referendum to ask the British people to reconsider the British Labour government's decision to back the Treaty. The deal will mean a more powerful long-term EU President can be elected as well as a foreign envoy. One of the potential candidates for role of EU President was former British premier Tony Blair. But on Radio ORLA's London Bridge this weekend, Wiktor Moszczynski, secretary of Labour Friends of Poland, said Blair could no longer rely on the support of Poland's premier Donald Tusk. Tusk has been reported saying a "lower profile" candidate ought to stand as EU President.