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Cameron, Europe, Boris and moving on
The dense detail of the talks is a tough sell. Jobs, interest rates, exports… that’s the stuff David Cameron wants to get on to.
Polling research suggests the UK is deeply divided on whether to back Brexit or vote for the country to stay in the EU.
European Council President Donald Tusk said there has been “some progress” on the first day of talks at the Brussels summit, but “a lot still remains to be done”.
The dense detail of the talks is a tough sell. Jobs, interest rates, exports… that’s the stuff David Cameron wants to get on to.
The Brussels summit will have an “English breakfast” on Friday morning to look at the British negotiating points, a senior EU official said this morning. That’ll be a plenary session which Donald Tusk, the European Council President who chairs the meeting, hopes will sign off on the text.
One EU diplomat said the whole deal now looks “do-able and likely” and he would be “surprised if it didn’t happen” this week.
Now David Camerom will have to compete with Tory opponents vying for TV time, having perhaps only one news cycle entirely to himself.
Michael Gove defends the prison reforms on Channel 4 News tonight and tries to sell them to inmates at The Mount prison outside Hemel Hempstead.
When Britain was last asked to vote on Europe, back in 1975, Hilary Benn was in the No campaign. But, unlike his father, he has since been convinced of the benefits of the EU.
David Cameron says he is confident that his temporary emergency brake on in-work benefits will reduce net migration.
Is the PM favouring departments led by ministers likely to back him over Europe? That’s the concern in Whitehall about how the negotiations with the EU played out.
David Cameron would not have sealed the deal he promised in his manifesto but he will argue that he’s sealed something comparable, the same ends by different means.
Arron Banks’ insurgent Leave campaign, Leave.eu, mocks the stately inactivity of Vote Leave, its Westminster obsession and its lack of grassroots activity.
I’m not convinced the PM is truly relaxed about whether he gets an early deal in Brussels or not. He told a Davos gathering he wasn’t in a hurry. Could’ve fooled Europe.
If David Cameron wins the European referendum he will declare it has settled Britain’s destiny. Bill Cash says it will do nothing of the sort.
Downing Street hopes that giving Cabinet ministers a free vote in the EU Referendum will buy some calm. But will it encourage more big names to leap over to the “Leave” side?