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Barroso runs Britain, radio poll says (Andrew Rettman, 1/04/06, EU Observer)

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso is the UK's most powerful man, according to a BBC radio opinion poll. [...]

The eurosceptic UK Independence Party (UKIP) pointed out that Mr Barroso is an unelected official.

"Of course it is the only chance you'll get to vote for him or for that matter against him", UKIP leader Roger Knapman indicated.

But ruling Labour party politicians dismissed the idea that the EU runs the UK as an "urban myth."

The Tories will be the majority again when sentences start: "The eurosceptic UK Conservative Party..."

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 4, 2006 8:53 AM