02/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - British Liberal Democrat Andrew Duff has openly criticised Conservative leader Michael Howard, who asserted in an election speech on Tuesday that the Tories would fight for a "flexible" Europe where each country could choose more integration in certain areas and not in other. According to Duff, the Tories" spinning a fairy tale for the British electorate because they are scared stiff of the far right". At the European Convention, the Tories "got no support inside the Convention for their eccentric views and were viewed with more pity than anger", Mr Duff sarcastically added.