Cameron handed EU exit threat
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British Prime Minister David Cameron has been challenged by over 50 lawmakers from his Conservative Party who are prepared to join a campaign backing Britain鈥檚 exit from the European Union unless he achieves radical changes in the bloc.
The lawmakers yesterday launched a new political group called Conservatives for Britain (CfB), which will support Cameron鈥檚 bid for reform while urging an end to EU membership unless significant changes are achieved.
Cameron is attempting to persuade European leaders to back UK demands for reform before holding an in-out referendum on Britain鈥檚 EU membership. He has promised the vote by the end of 2017.
鈥淲e wish David Cameron every success, but unless senior EU officials awake to the possibility that one of the EU鈥檚 largest members is serious about a fundamental change in our relationship, our recommendation to British voters seems likely to be exit,鈥 Conservative lawmaker Steve Baker said.
Cameron wants to restrict EU migrants鈥 access to British welfare, improve the single market, and win safeguards to ensure countries outside the euro zone are not put at a disadvantage by greater integration.
Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK government was seeking treaty change to protect its reforms, and that he believed the renegotiation could fix Britain鈥檚 relationship with the EU.
鈥淭here was always going to be a group of our colleagues who wanted to come out of the European Union come what may,鈥 Hammond said when asked about CfB. 鈥淭hat is not where the government is... we鈥檙e clear that the European Union isn鈥檛 working as it is at the moment, it鈥檚 not fit for the 21st century, but we think it鈥檚 fixable.鈥
Baker said CfB had already signed more than 50 lawmakers and expected the numbers to soon rise to about 100.
鈥淚 have been struck by the dozens of Tory (Conservative) MPs who would vote to quit the EU now and who will not settle for anything less than fundamental change,鈥 Baker, who is chairing the CfB group in parliament, wrote in the Sunday Telegraph.
The group said it would set out details of exactly what changes it wanted at a later date, but highlighted freedom-of-movement rules and repatriating lawmaking powers from Brussels as likely priorities.
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