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.
In the Mail on Sunday entitled "Cameron fears EU referendum revolt as MPs' vote looms", Brendan Carlin states that the congress for an EU referendum is timely given the in/our referendum vote in parliament a few weeks later.