article in The Telegraph

Stuart Wheeler, the spread-betting multi-millionaire, has lost his legal challenge to Gordon Brown’s decision to ratify the Lisbon Treaty.

He said: “I have high hopes of winning on appeal. We shall apply to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal and we will see what they say.”

Ruth Lea, Director of the Global Vision think-tank, said: “Today’s ruling by the High Court is extremely dispiriting especially as many European politicians have made it quite clear that the Lisbon Treaty is the Constitutional Treaty in all but name.

“Under these circumstances, the British people are surely entitled to their referendum on the Treaty as the Irish people did. All our polling shows an overwhelming majority in favour of a referendum.”