After holding the first Saturday Cabinet meeting since the Falklands War, David Cameron has just announced that the EU in/out referendum, in which the British people will decide whether Britain should exit the EU or remain in it, will be held on Thursday 23 June...
EU referendum: Cameron announces date of vote
BBC News
20 February 2016
Britain will vote on whether to remain in the EU on Thursday, 23 June, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
The prime minister made his historic statement in Downing Street after briefing the cabinet on his EU reform deal.
He said he had told ministers he will recommend remaining in a reformed EU.
Home Secretary Theresa May has backed him - but other ministers including Justice Secretary Michael Gove are expected to join the out campaign.
Chancellor George Osborne arrives at Downing Street this morning for the first Saturday Cabinet meeting since the Falklands War
Leave campaigners are hoping London Mayor Boris Johnson will join their cause - but he has yet to declare where he stands.
Mr Cameron claims his EU reform deal - hammered out at a two-day summit in Brussels - will give Britain "special status" within the bloc - tackling concerns over migrants getting "something for nothing" from the benefit system and exempting the country from the EU drive for "ever closer union".
But critics say it does nothing to tackle high levels of immigration or take back powers from Brussels, with UKIP leader Nigel Farage branding it "truly pathetic".
EU referendum: Cameron announces date of vote - BBC News
EU referendum: Cameron announces date of vote
BBC News
20 February 2016
Britain will vote on whether to remain in the EU on Thursday, 23 June, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.
The prime minister made his historic statement in Downing Street after briefing the cabinet on his EU reform deal.
He said he had told ministers he will recommend remaining in a reformed EU.
Home Secretary Theresa May has backed him - but other ministers including Justice Secretary Michael Gove are expected to join the out campaign.
Chancellor George Osborne arrives at Downing Street this morning for the first Saturday Cabinet meeting since the Falklands War
Leave campaigners are hoping London Mayor Boris Johnson will join their cause - but he has yet to declare where he stands.
Mr Cameron claims his EU reform deal - hammered out at a two-day summit in Brussels - will give Britain "special status" within the bloc - tackling concerns over migrants getting "something for nothing" from the benefit system and exempting the country from the EU drive for "ever closer union".
But critics say it does nothing to tackle high levels of immigration or take back powers from Brussels, with UKIP leader Nigel Farage branding it "truly pathetic".
EU referendum: Cameron announces date of vote - BBC News
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