UK PM Cameron says to campaign for European Union if successful in renegotiation
Mr Cameron urged Russia’s president Vladimir Putin to work with Europe and the United States to fight IS and not to prop up the Assad regime.
Cabinet sources claimed that ministers had been gagged from speaking out about Europe at the conference fringe.
“The prime minister has said he wants fundamental change”.
The ECHR has ruled against the U.K.’s blanket ban on giving convicted prisoners the vote four times in the past.
He has made it clear that he wishes to push for Britain to stay in. A few of it is costly for us and quite frankly ridiculous.
Business minister Sajid Javid, seen as potential future candidate for the Conservative leadership, refused to say if he would want to leave the European Union if Cameron failed in his renegotiation.
Britain’s opposition Labour party set up the “Labour Yes” group earlier this year to shore up support for the pro-Europe campaign.
James Penfold, 44, a nuclear waste scientist, said: “I think they’re taking the cuts way too far”. “But right now I am fighting to get these things and I can’t guarantee I will get them”.
Mr Cameron admitted his demands would never satisfy Eurosceptics such as former environment secretary Owen Paterson.
As president of the “Conservatives for Britain” group he said he will call for Britain to leave the 28-nation bloc, “unless there is real reform”.
Mr Cameron insisted he would hold firm, despite warnings that the policy could become politically toxic.
A flash mob at Manchester Piccadilly railway station featured protesters waving placards reading “Tories not welcome, go home” and a knitted banner reading “don’t stitch us up”.
Divisions over European Union membership threaten to overshadow the Tory conference in Manchester.
This summer, Mr Cameron appeared to suggest dissenters would have to resign, and junior environment minister James Wharton told the BBC that they could not remain in government.
The Conservatives used the summer Budget to commit to spending 2 per cent of Britain’s GDP on defence. “It does not work”, he said in an interview in the Guardian newspaper.
“I think it would be a catastrophic mistake of huge proportions if we were to play into that rise in populism, us and them politics, by turning our backs on our own European hemisphere”.
“We will then look at what we have achieved and that’s the time to make up our mind up”.
“It is obvious that (finance minister) George Osborne is at the moment in pole position… but things can change quite quickly”, said Mr Tim Bale, a professor of political science at Queen Mary University in London. “No to abuse of our welfare system”, Hammond said.
In the e-mail to members, Lord Feldman said: “You may be aware that a protest march planned by the TUC will take place on Sunday the 4th of October to coincide with the start of our Conference”.
‘We have shown that we have the reach, the capability and the determination to hunt you down’.