Today at 11am we will find out what Britain’s new relationship with the EU will look like. Downing Street insists that the draft renegotiation outline being published by European Council president Donald Tusk is still a draft, and there may well be changes to it (though presumably not all of them beneficial to Britain) in the next few weeks.
But it looks as though the European Council summit on 18 and 19 February will be discussing and signing off this renegotiation, and that therefore the June referendum is on.
The biggest challenge that David Cameron, who will give a speech later today on the proposals, has to overcome is any sense among voters that this new relationship between Britain and the EU is rather too much like the old one.
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