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Mr. Lidington said there are about 30 proposed European Union financial-services regulations that the U.K. must engage with from the start rather than complain about once they have been adopted.

Minister Pushes More U.K. Sway Alistair MacDonald 2011

David Lidington, the Europe minister, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "What he's going to be focusing on is saying that, whether it's 2011 or the more important long-term deal over the European budget, this is really something that deserves the highest priority among the leaders of all member states."

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Holloway, who was PPS to David Lidington, the Europe minister, is the second PPS to declare that he is resigning over this issue.

EU referendum Commons vote – live coverage 2011

David Lidington, the U.K.'s minister for Europe, said in an interview that London-based financial-services firms need to show they benefit the whole of Europe and not just the U.K. The U.K.'s financial regulators are seen within Britain as essentially arms of a Brussels-based regulatory system.

Minister Pushes More U.K. Sway Alistair MacDonald 2011

"Our approach should to be to seek the best regulation, not the least regulation," Mr. Lidington said.

Minister Pushes More U.K. Sway Alistair MacDonald 2011

As David Lidington, the British minister for Europe, himself reminded the Commons last week: "One voice representing 500 million consumers is heard more loudly in Beijing, Delhi and Brasilia than 27 separate voices."

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As the prime minister finished, the Europe minister David Lidington, on the frontbench, turned around to assess how his words had gone down.

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Adam Holloway, PPS to the Europe minister David Lidington, stood down after he too announced that he would vote in favour of the referendum.

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If you have done the same, then do it, you've got to support the motion.5.54pm: Adam Holloway, a parliamentary private secretary to David Lidington, the Foreign Office minister, seems to be giving a resignation speech.

EU referendum Commons vote – live coverage 2011

Mr. Lidington said the U.K. also must engage with the European Parliament, which won increased powers under the Lisbon Treaty that took effect last year.

Minister Pushes More U.K. Sway Alistair MacDonald 2011