Eurozone a tough sell, whichever angle you choose

Around about now the British cabinet will be getting Chancellor Gordon Brown's verdict on whether the five economic tests for UK membership have been met. We all know, of course, that he thinks they have not, or at least not yet. By 9 June, he has to tell the nation. But that is the easy part. Is the No a 'No, never' or just a 'Not for now' No? Who, in the end, will determine the answer, a few erudite experts in the Treasury or the masses informed chiefly by the tabloids? Theoretically, there are many financial and economic advantages to membership of the eurozone, both for institutio...