MOSCOW (Sputnik) — UK Prime Minister David Cameron will allow ministers in the Conservative-majority government to campaign for and against UK’s exit from the European Union, local media said Tuesday.
Britain is currently rethinking its relationship with the 28-nation bloc ahead of a referendum on its membership in the EU, due by the end of 2017.
The Tory government hopes to renegotiate terms of UK’s membership, specifically to be left out of EU’s “ever close union” mission, enshrined in the bloc’s treaties, and reclaim legislative and immigration control powers, among other issues.
Once a deal is agreed on between London and Brussels, ministers will be free to pick either side in the debate on whether the United Kingdom should stay or quit.
The negotiating process will be followed by an in-out referendum that Cameron promised during his spring 2015 pre-election campaign.
