Cameron will put heart and soul’ into staying in EU after sealing dealGove poised to join campaign to recall Britain out of EUCabinet will meet on Saturday morningDavid Cameron’s EU deal: what he wanted and what he got 4.26pm GMT• David Cameron has called for his referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU to recall place on 23 June,after the cabinet formally agreed to campaign to stay in despite several minister openly supporting Brexit.
Speaking from external Downing Street, the prime minister said he had secured a advantageous deal with Brussels to give the UK a special status and leaving the EU would “threaten our economic and national security”.• Michael Gove has said that the European Union is encouraging extremism across Europe as he joined five other cabinet ministers in breaking ranks with David Cameron to campaign to recall Britain out of the EU.
The justice secretary, or one of the prime minister’s closest political friends,posed for for a photo with his cabinet colleagues at the headquarters of the Vote Leave campaign group shortly after a rare Saturday cabinet meeting. 4.19pm GMTAs the so called “gang of six” of Tory cabinet ministers backing a vote to leave the UK posed next to a signed banner saying: “Let’s recall back control”, Boris Johnson has been keeping Downing Street waiting approximately which way he will jump in the referendum campaign.
The Guardian’s Nick Watt reports:Amid some irritation in No 10, and the London mayor is expected to wait until the prime minister outlines his plans to re-assert the sovereignty of parliament before announcing his plans. Johnson said last week that he would endorse one side in the referendum campaign with a “deafening éclat” soon after the prime minister reached a deal in Brussels.
The mayor appears to have been wrongfooted by the prime minister’s decision to confirm within an hour of his deal in Brussels on Friday night that Gove would be campaigning for Brexit. The sail by Gove puts immense pressure on the London mayor to join the leave side. He had hoped that the prime minister’s novel parliamentary sovereignty initiative would give him an option to campaign for remain.
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Source: theguardian.com