MOSCOW, January 5 (Sputnik) — Ed Miliband said the UK Labour Party would not allow the United Kingdom to exit the European Union during a Salford, Greater Manchester, campaign launched Monday ahead of the May 2015 general elections.
“Make no mistake: exit from the EU would be a dramatic mistake for our country and our economy,” the party's leader Ed Miliband was quoted as saying by The Independent.
Miliband added that the Labour party would not approve a public vote of whether to stay in the EU if his party won the 2015 elections.
Meanwhile, Cameron stands by his pledge to hold a referendum in 2017 on whether the United Kingdom should keep its EU membership, if the conservative party wins the coming elections, adding that he would be “delighted” to stage an early referendum, as quoted by the newspaper.
The proposed EU referendum came after Cameron’s plans to introduce immigration quotas on nationals from other EU member states in the United Kingdom. The EU opposed the plans which it says are against the union’s principle of free movement between member states.
