British Prime Minister David Cameron will give his strongest warning this week that he might back Britain leaving the EU unless other European leaders agree to his demands for reform of the bloc, media reported yesterday.
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The report – authored by senior establishment figures including the former head of the joint intelligence committee Lady Neville-Jones and the former British ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer – comes as Cameron intensified the European Union debate by suggesting that national security could be at risk if Britain voted to leave. But it is no secret that the prime minister does not want Britain to leave.
Almost three years after promising a vote before the end of 2017, Cameron will outline British demands for renegotiation of its European Union membership terms in a letter to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, to be published on Tuesday.
“There are changes to our membership – on freedom of movement – that would be big enough for people to have real opinions on them”, Wells said.
Cameron is expected to model his political strategy on the Scottish referendum, during which people were promised a package of reforms in the event of voting in favor of staying within the United Kingdom.
“Some of changes we are looking far will require changes to the body of law, the treaties, and the European Union secondary legislation that are now in place.
This is about fundamental change in the direction of travel of the European Union”, he said. That is a matter of judgment’.
She will say she had doubts of her own following the EU’s initial response to the crisis, and that as a social democrat she repeatedly argued the case for the European Union to shift towards a policy based on investment, growth and job creation.
As well as Meyer and Neville-Jones, other authors of the damning report on Britain’s foreign policy prepared by a commission convened by the LSE include the former head of British intelligence Sir Richard Dearlove, the prime minister’s former adviser on worldwide affairs Jonathan Luff and HSBC’s chief economist Stephen King. At that moment, you will hold this country’s destiny in your hands.
Vote Leave Campaign Director Dominic Cummings said the public should not be fooled by the PM’s renegotiation demands: “We expect Cameron to get what he’s asking for but what he’s asking for is trivial. And it will be the final decision”.
In a speech to the CBI on Monday, Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne will confirm that four key departments have already settled on spending cuts ahead of the spending review due later this month. “By making the further savings we need over the course of this Parliament we can prioritise what matters for working families – schools, the NHS and our national security”, Mr Cameron will say.
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In a major speech at Imperial College, the Chancellor will set out the principles that will underpin his decisions as he sets out how it will spend around £4 trillion in the next five years. The 19 countries are likely to have too much power.
