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Good evening from the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, where David Cameron is tonight trying to persuade European leaders of the merits of his renegotiation of Britain’s relationship with the EU. For a deal that has underwhelmed almost everybody in Britain, it’s taking a remarkably long time to sign off. A working session, in which the Prime Minister told leaders that this was the ‘opportunity to settle this issue for a generation’, has just broken up, and talks on the migration crisis are starting over dinner.
Cameron told leaders that ‘the question of Britain’s place in Europe has been allowed to fester for too long’. He then added that ‘if we can reach an agreement strong enough to persuade the British people to support it’, then the matter could be resolved.
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