MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — UK Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to hold a referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union by the end of 2017. Ahead of the vote, Cameron is seeking to revise the terms of the UK’s membership in the bloc.
"I think it is realistic that we have it in April or May," Arron Banks, chairman of the Leave.EU campaign, said.
"The opinion polls begin to show that it is around 50-50," Banks said.
As many as 66 percent of UK citizens are skeptical that Cameron would "get a good deal" negotiating with Brussels, according to an Ipsos MORI poll revealed last week.
Cameron outlined four demands from the European Union to keep the United Kingdom within the bloc. These include shifting power away from Brussels back to the UK national legislature and exempting Britain from the EU "superstate" principle; denouncing the euro as a single official EU currency, and protecting the UK economy by keeping eurozone members away from the non-eurozone countries’ affairs.
"We do not believe that reform is possible," Banks said.
Keeping UK laws from EU control is a "red line" issue for Brexit supporters, he said.
"The basic position of Leave.EU is that ultimately the British law should become supreme again," Arron Banks, chairman of the Leave.EU campaign, said, adding that it should be up to UK citizens to agree or disagree with European laws.
