- but says he is confident he will secure British opt-out from EU’s founding declaration to create ‘ever closer union’
The UK PM speaking on this morning’s Andrew Marr show ahead of his party’s annual conference which starts today amidst some headline grabbing actions that Eamonn highlighted earlier . There has also been a resignation from a junior cabinet minister,Brooks Newmark, after the Sunday Mirror alleged he had sent an explicit photograph of himself to an undercover reporter posing as a female party activist.
Said Cameron
I have said this all my political life – I’ve said if I thought that it wasn’t in Britain’s interests to be in the EU I wouldn’t argue for us to be in it. I am just a deeply patriotic politician and person. I do this job because I love my country, I care passionately about its future and I want it to be a strong, proud, self-governing independent nation.
But Cameron insisted that he believed he would be successful in his negotiations with the EU.
I want the 27 other countries in Europe to see that there is a plan here – that with reform can end with a reformed EU and a reformed relationship with Britain, and Britain staying in. I want them to see that that is the goal. If I don’t achieve that it will be for the British public to decide whether to stay in or get out.
The Guardian has more here and the BBC has additional background on the conference and latest headlines here with the Iplayer link to the Andrew Marr show here
Not a great start to what is a key event for the PM and his party as the countdown to next year’s general election begins
Yo, me and my crew coming right at ya.
