Cameron backpedals on threat against anti-EU ministers
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has withdrawn his threat to sack ministers over an ongoing dispute on Britain’s stay in the European Union.
Cameron said Monday that his remarks about his ministers’ position on an EU exit referendum have been misinterpreted, and that his Conservative party remains united on the issue.
The premier changed his tone after he was told that some of his ministers campaigning for Britain to leave the EU would resign.
More than 50 lawmakers from Cameron’s own Conservative party have also said they would lead calls for an EU exit, unless the prime minister secures major concessions from Brussels.
The British MPs demand a tougher negotiating stance on issues such as national sovereignty and control over free-trade powers.
Cameron’s plan is to renegotiate London’s ties with the EU ahead of a 2017 referendum that will decide UK’s exit from the bloc. The premier says he is carrying out a renegotiation to get a result in the national interest.
Now Ian Williams, senior analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus, says Cameron has a similar problem to Republicans in America, who have to pander to the Tea Party and they know that to keep the rightwing fringe of the party on board, they have to say things which might alienate more sensible conservative business-type supporters. This is what Cameron is doing.”
Cameron has already expressed confidence of striking a deal on EU reforms that would be legally binding.
But Cameron could face resistance from the eurosceptic wing of his Conservative party, which has a slim majority in parliament.
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