MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A group of some 50 Conservative lawmakers have teamed up to campaign for Britain’s exit from the European Union if Prime Minister David Cameron fails to push through radical EU reforms, the group’s leader and House of Commons member Steve Baker said.
In a letter published by the Telegraph on Saturday, Baker urged Cameron to negotiate better terms for UK’s membership in the 28-nation union. The new terms will be put to vote in the 2017 referendum that will ask Britons if they want to stay in or out of the European Union.
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Despite styling themselves as Cameron’s supporters, the group said they are "willing to consider how to prepare for an ‘out’ campaign if, lamentably, the European Union establishment will not allow the UK a new relationship of trade and co-operation."
Conservatives want a flexible relationship with Brussels that will allow London to decide on the amount of taxpayers’ contribution to EU coffers, business regulations, trade relations outside of the union, and migration curbs.
