Potentially, this has significant implications for a euro referendum, since it was widely assumed that the full weight of the government machine and perhaps even the European Commission would be behind a Yes campaign.

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The results are a mixture of typical midterm protest and "rage against the machine, " said Tony Travers, director of the government department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Parts of the government machine respect the CAG.

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