It would be nice if some British politician would take up that cause, even if a conservative one. Tough it may be late - I don't know what is the policy of the new German government's responsible ministers, but had there been such a British-German alliance under the previous German government, it may have defeated opposition (from France, Italy, Spain). IIRC when the German government (they had a Green minister) proposed such a change (also a support refocused on organic farming) at Nice in 2002, it was soundly defeated by the French-led majority.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}