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THE PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW Highlighting best practice 62 | REVIEW OF PARLIAMENT The Prime Minister's objections to Mr Juncker were overridden by his fellow EU leaders, but his party united around him For a leader outvoted 26 to 2 by his fellow EU leaders, David Cameron received a near-ecstatic welcome from his troops when he arrived to deliver a statement to a noisy House of Commons on the decisions reached by the Ypres Council of Ministers. 'I always knew he had lead in his pencil,' said Eurosceptic backbencher Stewart Jackson. Pro-EU Tory Richard Ottaway said Mr Cameron had stood up for British interests. Former cabinet minister Peter Lilley compared him to Mrs Thatcher. Backbencher James Duddridge noted his stand had gone down very well in Southend. The Prime Minister's objections to Mr Juncker – whom he criticised as an old-guard EU federalist – had been overridden, but his party united around him. The Labour leader Ed Miliband and a parade of Labour ex-ministers accused Mr Cameron of grandstanding and alienating allies, who might have helped block the appointment. It was, Mr Miliband said, a gloomy precedent for the Prime Minister's planned renegotiation of Britain's EU membership, which was to precede his promised referendum: 'His renegotiation strategy is in tatters. We know where it would end, he would be caught in the gulf between his backbenchers A hero's welcome – David Cameron reports back to the Commons contributed to a US decision not to launch any military action. The war in The war in Syria continues, along with a massive humanitarian catastrophe. The vote was undoubtedly historic (you have to search back for centuries to find even a vague precedent) but the verdict of history has yet to be delivered.