Will Cameron’s renegotiation efforts be boosted by the Out campaign’s troubles?

David Cameron is in Holland and France today trying to pave the way for the renegotiation of the terms of Britain’s EU membership. Number 10 believe that now the referendum is definitely happening, the bill for it was published today, they can get other countries to engage with Cameron’s concerns.

As I say in the column this week, Cameron’s renegotiation strategy has become clearer in recent weeks. Rather than trying to address every concern about EU membership, he is – as one Cabinet Minister told me – going to ‘focus on three or four big things and make a really big push on them.’

The fact that Iain Duncan Smith and Sajid Javid have been put on the Cabinet committee that Cameron is chairing on the renegotiation, suggests that its major emphasis will be on EU citizens access to tax credits and the British welfare system and deregulation and protections for the single market.