David Cameron looks set to address backbench concerns about Britain’s relationship with the European Union over the next few weeks. Nick Robinson reports today that though the Prime Minister will not use his party conference speech to talk about Europe, he is considering making a ‘major speech about Britain’s future relationship with Europe’ before EU leaders meet in December.
As Robinson points out, Cameron will come under pressure from backbenchers this autumn with votes in the Commons on the European Banking Union. There is also the first meeting of the all-party parliamentary group for an EU referendum in mid-October, and its leader John Baron is still waiting for an answer to a letter he sent to the Prime Minister in June, which was signed by 100 backbench Tories and called for legislation in this parliament for a referendum in the next.
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