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Conservative tensions over Europe intensified today when U.K. Prime minister David Cameron has criticized senior Tory Cabinet ministers for signaling to vote for Britain’s exit from EU if a referendum was held immediately.
Mr. Cameron was speaking from the U.S. Washington where he is expected to discuss EU trade as well as Syria with President Obama. PM has dismissed suggestions by two senior cabinet members that they would vote to leave the EU under current terms of membership as “hypothetical”.
He has shown his utter determination to renegotiate Britain’s terms of membership and said: “You should not give up before a negotiation has started. It seems to be an extraordinary way to go about things…
“The idea of throwing in the towel before the negotiations have even started I think is a very, very strange opinion.”
Mr. Cameron’s comments came after the Education Secretary Michael Gove and Defence Secretary Philip Hammond – two of the most senior Conservatives have mentioned to consider supporting Britain being out of the EU.
A senior Tory loyalist Sir Malcolm Rifkind has cautioned that in-fighting over the EU referendum row is damaging the Prime Minister’s authority.
Mr. Cameron has said: “There isn’t going to be a referendum tomorrow so it’s a hypothetical question.
“What matters is making sure that we do everything we can to reform the EU, make it more flexible, more open, more competitive and improve Britain’s relations with the EU, change those relations, so that when we have the referendum before the end of 2017 we give the British public a real choice, a proper choice.”
Mr. PM will focus on the benefits that U.K. will gain from a free trade deal between the EU and U.S. on Monday in his talks with Barack Obama in the White House.
Mr. Cameron will claim that an agreement could be worth up to £10bn annually to the economy.
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