Pressure has been building all weekend for the Prime Minister to give some form of concession to his eurosceptic backbenchers in his statement on the outcome of the Brussels summit. James blogged shortly before David Cameron stood up in the Commons that Tory MPs were being reassured that they were going to like what they would hear him, which a pro-European MP suspected would be ‘feeding a beast with an insatiable appetite’.
This is the meat the Prime Minister threw to the eurosceptics:
‘Far from ruling out a referendum for the future, as a fresh deal in Europe becomes clear, we should consider how best to get the fresh consent of the British people.’
He elaborated on this, telling Andrea Leadsom that the changes in the eurozone represented an ‘opportunity to build the sort of settlement we want’, and referring to ‘what I would call a fresh deal and a fresh settlement in Europe’.
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