British Prime Minister David Cameron was informed today that 50 MPs from his party will lead the campaign for Great Britain's exit from the EU, if he fails to obtain major concessions from Brussels.
The new Conservatives for Britain parliamentary group has said it will back Cameron's bid to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership, but will campaign to leave the EU if the prime minister fails to deliver major changes such as restoring control over free trade. and British laws, according to AFP.
"If senior EU officials do not realize that one of the EU's largest members is serious about fundamental changes to our relationship, we will most likely recommend that British voters vote to leave the EU in a referendum," said Conservative MP and chairman of Conservatives for Britain Steve Baker for the Sunday Telegraph.
Cameron promised to renegotiate Britain's relations with the EU and then by the end of 2017, he would call a referendum on remaining or leaving the EU.
That is why he has just toured European capitals in an attempt to gather support for reforms that include choosing not to join the creation of an even closer union and that immigrants in Britain cannot receive the same benefits as in other EU countries.
"If the EU does not return important competences to Britain, then we should leave the union. Restrictions on the freedom of movement of EU citizens and the primacy of the British Parliament over EU law will probably be among the most important issues," warned David Campbell, a conservative member of the European Parliament and co-founder of the "Conservatives for Britain" group. Bannerman.
Meanwhile, the anti-European and anti-immigration United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) has announced the start of its campaign to leave the EU.
"If we were to wait for Cameron to finish the negotiations, we wouldn't have time to organize and mobilize. Cameron will not ask for the abolition of absolute freedom of movement because he knows he won't get it. That's why nothing Cameron is asking for can be acceptable to us," the leader said. UKIP Nigel Farage for BBC Radio.
EU leaders want Britain to stay in the union because of its role as a global commercial power with diplomatic and military power and the incalculable symbolic damage its departure would do to the EU's image in the world.
But discontent is also growing in continental Europe over what some see as London's demand for special treatment and "a la carte" EU membership.
"If the demands are too extreme, they won't be met. You can't keep everything that is good and forget the price you have to pay for it," said Polish Minister for EU Affairs Rafal Tzaskovski to the "Observer" newspaper.
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