Cameron fights back: his full statement on the EU deal

I have spent the last nine months setting out the four areas where we need reform and meeting with all 27 other EU Heads of State and government to reach an agreement that delivers concrete reforms in all four areas. Let me take each in turn.
First, British jobs and British business depend on being able to trade with Europe on a level playing field. So we wanted new protections for our economy; to safeguard the pound; to promote our industries – including our financial services industries; to protect British taxpayers from the costs of problems in the Eurozone and to ensure we have a full say over the rules of the single market, while remaining outside the Eurozone. And we got all of those things.

We have not just permanently protected the pound and our right to keep it, but ensured that we can’t be discriminated against. Responsibility for supervising the financial stability of the UK will always remain in the hands of the Bank of England. We