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Replace the pound with Euro if conditions favourable
Should Britain replace the pound with the Euro if conditions were favourable?
Alliance Party Alliance supports the principle of the United Kingdom's entry into the Euro at the earliest appropriate opportunity governed by the economic convergence criteria. We do recognise that those criteria do not clearly exist at present. Source: Alliance Website
Conservative The Conservative party pledge "To keep the Pound and Britain out of the Euro". Source: Conservative Party, https://www.conservatives.com/landing_pages/european_election.aspx
DUP "The global economic situation has shown that a European monetary union does not work. The eurozone project, which was politically inspired, is now in crisis." Source: DUP 2014 Manifesto.
Labour "We made the right call on not joining the Euro." - Ed Balls, Shadow Chancellor. http://press.labour.org.uk/post/98137818419/speech-by-ed-balls-mp-to-labour-party-annual