ever held for a referendum on Europe".' In an article entitled "Euroscepticism isn't just for Tories any more", the journalist Daniel Knowles writing in The Spectator asserts that the Congress could be the event in which the growing private eurosceptic views among MPs is manifested. "A particular flash point could come in October, when the People's Pledge, a campaign group that wants to force an in-or-out referendum on the EU, hosts a rally. Several Labour and Conservative MPs are expected to attend, including some close to the government. David Cameron will be looking on with concern. He knows that nothing makes his party more mutinous than Europe." Dan Hannan writing in The Daily Telegraph urged all supporters of a referendum to attend saying "this is the single most important issue facing us as a people". He also claimed that despite the best efforts of the campaign, they had so far been unable to get anyone to come and debate not having a referendum. "All three parties oppose an In/Out referendum, but no one will publicly admit the reason". Dan Hannan reported in The Daily Telegraph that 2,000 people attended the congress. The campaign were featured on the front page of The Sunday Telegraph on 23 October in a story titled "New euro 'empire' plot by Brussels", mention was made of the congress held on the Saturday. "Tory rebels were among speakers at a 'People's Pledge' pro-referendum rally in Westminster. They included David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, who called the EU a 'nascent superstate'." In the program for the day the following were listed to participate; Mark Seddon, Kate Hoey, David Davis, Douglas Carswell, Steve Baker, Ruth Lea, Mark Littlewood, Dan Hannan, Kelvin Hopkins, Lembit Opik, Jenny Jones, Zac Goldsmith, Richard Drax, Brian Denny, Bob Crow, Patricia McKenna, Dounne Alexander, Keith Vaz, Peter Bone, John Cryer, Graham Stringer, Nich Brown, Priti Patel, Mark Reckless, Dominic Raab, Mike Weatherley, Tim Montgomerie, Marta Andreasen, John Stevens, Richard Lamming, and Steve Radford. EU referendum vote in Parliament The Conservative MP David Nuttall secured the debate via the Backbench Business Committee and the vote was announced to be on 27 October. To coincide with the vote, the People's Pledge secured the mass lobby of parliament where thousands were expected to attend to lobby their MP. Hours after this was announced the government changed the voting day to three days earlier. This was described