Should we stay or should we go — European Union vote

Cameron emerged from the meeting saying the cabinet had agreed with the government’s position to recommend that Britain remains in a reformed EU. Cameron said he would campaign with all his “heart and soul” for Britain to stay in the European Union after he won a deal in Brussels about the so-called Brexit, which offered his country “special status”.

Cameron may announce a referendum date after the meeting, the first Cabinet session held on a Saturday since the Falklands War in 1982.

Cameron said in a national address om the steps of Downing Street; “You will decide, and I will do what ever you decide”. Prime Minister Cameron had threatened to rescind the UK’s membership in the European Union if conditions were not met to satisfy Euroskeptics.

“I’m largely minded to vote to stay in it (the EU)”, said Jonathan Mills.

Much of the opposition to European Union membership comes from the UK Independence Party led by Nigel Farage and from skeptical members of Cameron’s own party.

“I want to be absolutely clear – I will be voting to leave the European Union”, she said on her website.

The deal established that child benefits for European Union migrants living overseas will be paid at a rate based on cost of living in their home countries and allowed the U.K.to place a four-year “emergency brake” on migrants in-work benefits during periods of “exceptional” migration.

A No 10 spokesman said the discussion had been conducted in “a good spirit and a dignified manner” with “measured, thought through interventions” from ministers reflecting the way they had each carefully weighed up the choice they were facing.

Finance minister George Osborne backed Cameron and other senior members of his cabinet – such as Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond – are expected to follow suit. “I believe we will be safer in a reformed Europe because we can work with our European partners to fight cross-border crime and terrorism”.

The question for the prime minister is whether “special status”, and his changes to welfare rules among other measures, will be enough to convince the sceptical and calm the concerns of the mildly eurosceptic of Great Britain. “Without Europe I don’t think the United Kingdom will survive as a country and a lot of companies, particularly financial centres, will lose out to Europe and it’s a big part of our economy”. This means that Euroskeptic ministers would now be free to campaign for the U.K.’s exit from the EU.

“On Monday, I will commence the process set out under our Referendum Act and I will go to parliament and propose that the British people decide our future in Europe”, Cameron said after meeting with his cabinet on Saturday.