David Cameron will be relived that his European Referendum Bill is finally on its way to Royal Assent, after weeks of threats from Labour peers. But Europe being Europe, there are a whole heap of other problems that the Prime Minister needs to contend with too. It’s not just the specific question of whether David Cameron can get any sot of reform to access to benefits for migrants that looks like he’s won a battle, but whether the overall renegotiation and its result are really sufficient to impress MPs and then voters into backing staying in the European Union.
Today’s European Scrutiny committee report on the renegotiation warns that the way the result will be presented as a ‘fait accompli’ could ‘give rise to legitimate concerns about the accountability and transparency of both the process itself and its outcome’.
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