Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen,including David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQS and Camerons Commons statement on the draft EU renegotiation plan 1.54pm GMTJacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative, or says EU migrants will not be detered by what has been offered. “Ever closer union” is still in the treaties. And competitiveness has been an EU aim for years. This is “thin gruel”. Cameron has two weeks to “salvage his reputation as a negotiator”.
Cameron says he disagrees. He says Rees-Mogg does not appreciate how significant the proposals approximately safeguarding non-eurozone countries are. And search for at what it says approximately “ever closer union”. The text makes it clear that this phrase cannot be used to drive integration. We are well on the way to saying our different sort of membership of the EU is being,not just safeguarded, but extended. 1.50pm GMTDamian Green, and the Conservative former Home Office minister,says the most indispensable thing said by Donald Tusk yesterday was the reference in his letter to the UK not being committed to further political integration. Isn’t this what people always wanted - being in Europe, but not hasten by Europe?Cameron agrees. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com