Pro-Brexit ministers unpick Cameron’s EU deal

Cabinet ministers are now free to campaign in the EU referendum, and inevitably the pro-Brexit bunch have all given interviews or penned pieces in the press about why they want to leave the European Union. Chris Grayling today tells the Sunday Times that David Cameron’s renegotiation ‘doesn’t go far enough’ and can be overturned by the European Parliament, and points out that for all the fuss about the emergency brake on migrant benefits, the introduction of the living wage will ‘boost the attraction of Britain as a place to come and work’. He also dismisses the assurances that Cameron is planning to set out on the sovereignty of Parliament, saying that Britain is ‘bound by treaty to the supremacy of European law’.

Meanwhile Priti Patel writes in the Mail on Sunday that ‘nothing will change’ if Britain stays in the EU ‘as no significant powers or competences have been returned to Britain’ and that the EU needs showing ‘that the British public cannot be treated like fools’.