The Sunday Times is today reporting that PM Cameron , fresh from his success on Friday, is to speed up talks in a push to win concessions before the planned referendum promised by the end of 2017
Fin min George Osborne will lead the negotiation team, backed by Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond with Cameron sending them to Berlin and Brussels as part of a 100-day plan.
The paper also reports that he will prioritise a reform of the country's electoral districts with changes which will give his Conservative Party an extra 20 seats in Parliament, increasing the 331 they currently hold out of 650.
Not the reforms that others outside his party want to see! Shock. Not.
A recent poll on Brexit showed 34% definitely in favour of remaining in the EU, and a further 18% saying they would probably vote to stay in. Another 18% said they definitely wanted to leave and 14% said they would probably vote to exit. With UKIP finding another 4 mln votes this time though we can expect a fierce Out campaign.
On Friday both French President Hollande and EU president Juncker were quick to extend an invitation for talks to Cameron & Co with Juncker saying
"I stand ready to work with you to strike a fair deal for the UK in the EU"
Let's see what kind of "fair deal" that turns out to be
