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Prime Minister David Cameron stood before Parliament on Monday and forcefully defended his decision to veto key decisions at last week’s European summit meeting to rescue the euro, asserting he made the only reasonable choice to protect Britain’s national interests even though critics — including some within his own coalition government — contend he has effectively marginalized the country’s influence in Europe.

David Cameron was warned that he faces four years of trench warfare with disgruntled backbenchers after he suffered the largest postwar rebellion on Europe as 81 Conservative MPs supported a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

Prime Minister David Cameron blames the riots that shook Britain over the past 10 days on a "slow-motion moral collapse ... in parts of our country," he will say Monday, according to his office.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says rioters in England will be held accountable. "We will do whatever is necessary to restore law and order," he said.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street in London July 20, 2011. Cameron is to make a statement on phone hacking to parliament on Tuesday.

David Cameron is due to declare to Tory activists that it is his "patriotic duty" to eject Gordon Brown from Downing Street.