MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In May, Cameron promised to hold a referendum on whether Britain should stay in the 28-nation European Union by the end of 2017. He maintains that London should be part of the bloc, albeit on renegotiated terms.
Senior sources in the UK government told the Independent on Sunday that Cameron will announce the June 2016 date in his keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester in October.
The Prime Minister reportedly calculated that Brussels will be more in the mood to grant changes to EU legislation and work benefits for EU migrants from outside Britain after the bailout talks with Greece, where the EU leadership showed it was ready to go the extra mile to avoid an EU exit.
Anti-EU sentiment has risen in the United Kingdom following accusations that the nation’s welfare has suffered greatly from an unrestrained inflow of migrants from less affluent EU member states.
