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The choice is in your hands, but my recommendation is clear - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
I believe that Britain will be safer, stronger and better off | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
So the debate has started and the date is set - | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
British voters will decide on June the 23rd if they want to stay | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
The announcement was made here in Downing Street, | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
where the Prime Minister chaired a cabinet meeting and explained | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
the new deal he'd negotiated in Brussels. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
But these senior ministers have decided not to side | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
with the Prime Minister and will campaign to leave. | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
I do not believe we can take decisions in our national interest | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
when we're part of the EU when we've given up so much control over | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
We'll be asking voters in Surrey for their thoughts | :00:51. | :01:00. | |
on the referendum, now that the date has been confirmed. | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
And we'll be reporting from Edinburgh, where | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
the Scottish Government says it will be making a strong case | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
for remaining inside the European Union. | :01:08. | :01:33. | |
Good evening from Downing Street, where earlier today | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
the Prime Minister emerged from Number 10 | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
to announce that a referendum will be held on the 23rd of June | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
to decide whether or not Britain should remain a member | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
It will be - in his words - one of the biggest | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
Mr Cameron had informed the cabinet of the new terms of EU membership | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
But several of Mr Cameron's cabinet colleagues - | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
including the Justice Secretary Michael Gove - | :01:58. | :01:58. | |
have announced today that they will campaign for Britain | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
We'll have more on the detail of Mr Cameron's deal in a moment, | :02:02. | :02:09. | |
but first our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
Just what has the Prime Minister opened up? | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
An argument that not all of his colleagues can agree on. | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
What does this deal mean to your colleagues? | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
As the Cabinet gathered to tell each other at last officially if they're | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
Was that a difficult decision, Mr Gove? | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
An awkward entrance for one of the Prime | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
Minister's closest friends, who will oppose him. | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
It is no secret how big a decision this is for us all, | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
but what the Prime Minister would recommend was never really | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
With the deal from Brussels in his back pocket, here it was. | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
We are approaching one of the biggest | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
decisions our country will face in our lifetime - | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
whether to remain in a reformed European Union, or to leave. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Our plan for Europe gives us the best of both worlds. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
It underlines our special status, through which families | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
across Britain get all the benefits of being in the European Union, | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
including more jobs, lower prices and greater security. | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
But our special status also means we are out | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
of those parts of Europe that do not work for us. | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
And I will go to Parliament and propose that the | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
British people decide our future in Europe through an in/out | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
But my recommendation is clear - I believe that Britain | :03:37. | :03:48. | |
will be safer, stronger and better off in a reformed European Union. | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
Don't be in any doubt, this is one of biggest political | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
He's finally confirmed, you will be asked the biggest | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
political question in decades and he's putting | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
at stake our membership of the European Union, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the unity of his party and indeed his own political | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
I think everyone thinks it is a good deal, the question | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
is whether everybody thinks it is enough for us | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
Those who oppose him slipped out the back door. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming... | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
A member of the Cabinet, I'm the Secretary for Work | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
and Pensions and I'm ringing you from the Vote Leave campaign. | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
Going straight to the headquarters of one | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
The first Cabinet Minister to speak for out told me. | :04:52. | :05:07. | |
There are things that we could and should be doing in the interests | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
of this country that we simply cannot do as members of EU. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
I want to be able to control our borders, | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
to limit the number of people who come and live and work here. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
I want to be able to do trade deals with parts of the world | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
where exciting economic things are happening. | :05:26. | :05:26. | |
But it's not just a disagreement between you and and the Prime | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Minister, it is a very different judgment on what he has | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
He has brought back from Brussels some changes to our European | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
relationships that can make a difference, but don't | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
transform things in the way I would wish. | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
And you're going to spend the next four months, | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
day in day out, telling the Prime Minister he is wrong | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
I'm not going to attack the Prime Minister. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
The Prime Minister has worked immensely | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
hard to deliver change to our relationship | :05:51. | :05:51. | |
The debate is whether that change is sufficient to enable us to stay | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
The campaign to stay will have the backing of most Tory, | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
Liberal Democrat, Labour and SNP MPs. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
We want to be in government in 2020 to deal a much strong stronger | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
social Europe, greater workers' protection, | :06:16. | :06:17. | |
greater environmental protection across Europe. | :06:18. | :06:18. | |
That is the agenda that Cameron should have | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
No 10 hopes a new and improved relationship with the EU can | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
But the referendum will ask if this place, | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
It's three years since the Prime Minister said he would be | :06:31. | :06:40. | |
seeking a new settlement for Britain in the European Union. | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
The new terms he secured in last night's agreement | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
should, according to Mr Cameron, help to reduce people's concerns | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
But how do those new terms compare with his original goals? | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
Are they - as the critics say - a very poor result for the UK? | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Our deputy political editor James Landale has | :06:59. | :06:59. | |
When David Cameron set out to reform Britain's relationship | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
with the European Union, his ambition was clear. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
That is why we need fundamental, far-reaching change. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Well, one aim was to deter EU migration by curbing their benefits. | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
The Tory manifesto promised that if an EU migrant's child is living | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
abroad, then they should receive no child benefit. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
The deal says that EU migrants will get child benefit, | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
but only reflecting prices in their own country, | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
A change that comes in immediately for new arrivals, in four years | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
The manifesto also promised that EU migrants who want to claim tax | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
credits must live here and contribute to our country | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
The deal says instead that EU migrants will have their tax credits | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
A restriction that the Government will be able to impose only | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
The Prime Minister also promised to protect Britain from being sucked | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
I'm asking European leaders for a clear, legally binding | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
and irreversible agreement to end Britain's obligation to work | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
So it's time to give these national parliament's a greater say | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
Well, the deal says the UK will indeed not be committed | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
to further political integration and it does give more power | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
to national parliament's to block new EU laws, | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
if more than half of them group together and force EU governments | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
The Prime Minister promised to protect the economy | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
from financial decisions made by eurozone countries. | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
I'm asking European leaders to agree clear and binding principles that | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
protect Britain and other non-euro countries and a safeguard mechanism | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
to ensure that those principles are respected and enforced. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
The deal bans any discrimination against non-euro countries and gives | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
the UK the right to challenge, but not veto eurozone decisions | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
they oppose, a change that will be written into EU law in the future. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
So this deal doesn't reduce a deter against migration, | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
safeguards from the eurozone and a check on further political | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
integration, but it doesn't restrict the free movement of labour around | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Europe, it doesn't change EU employment law, it doesn't reform | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
farm payments, all of which the Prime Minister has | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
So this deal is, by definition, a compromise. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
The question now is whether it's good enough to convince voters | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
to remain in the EU or so minimal it persuades them to vote to leave. | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
James Landale, BBC News, Westminster. | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
With me is Laura Kuenssberg, our political editor. | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Let's underline what we know and clearly what we don't know. One | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
thing is now definitely happening. At the end of June we will have the | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
chance to leave the European Union if that is what the country decide | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
it wants. After four decades since that question was put that is a very | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
significant political question for the country to settle about leaving | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
an institution that has been a fundamental part of how we, our | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
lives are governed for many years. Another extraordinary thing is we | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
have No 10 presiding over a cabinet that is split. It is usually part of | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
government to look unified. And that is not the case. One big thing | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
unresolved is whether the gang of six we saw will become a gang of | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
seven and whether they will be joined by Boris Johnson. This time | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
tomorrow night, we will know whether or not Boris Johnson has decided to | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
campaign to leave the EU. He will set out his arguments for that in | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
his newspaper column on Monday. At this stage after the hovering and | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
sitting on the fence the surprise would be if Boris Johnson backed | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
David Cameron and argued for in. It is still not certain, but it look | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
like he will put his weight behind the out campaign. That matters | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
because he is a rare kind of politician who can cut through to | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
the public for good or ill. Thank you. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
In Edinburgh, the Scottish Government | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
says it will make the case for remaining in the European Union. | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
The First Minister and leader of the SNP, | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
Nicola Sturgeon, said it was now more important | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
than ever that those who supported EU membership | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
said so loudly and clearly, as our Scotland editor | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
On a dreich Edinburgh afternoon, people still enjoy a few European | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
But seriously, what happens in the EU | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
referendum in June could have far-reaching consequences in | :12:00. | :12:00. | |
This referendum is meant to end the debate about Britain's | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
future in or out of the European Union, but it | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
could raise all sorts of questions about the future | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
If the UK were to vote to leave, while Scotland had | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
clearly indicated voters wanted to remain, that could cause a second | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
referendum on Scottish independence, one the Nationalists might be more | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
The SNP insists Scotland should not be | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
forced out of the EU if that is not what Scots vote for. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
I hope it doesn't happen, I hope the UK as a whole votes | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
to stay in, but I think it's obvious to anybody that if Scotland found | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
itself being taken out of the European Union | :12:41. | :12:41. | |
against our will, people would want to think | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
again about being independent, as a way to secure our membership. | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
In a French cafe in Edinburgh, the argument about Britain's future | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
in the EU is seen as part of wider ongoing debate about Scotland's | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Scotland is used to being part of a larger union and it knows | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
England has not had that experience and it's scary to them. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
England has auz always been a dominant part | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
It doesn't know how to be the smaller part of a bigger union. | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
Scotland is a important nation throughout the world, | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
it is a key exporter, it has led the world | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
in research and development and what we are now part | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
of is an ever-shrinking part of the global market. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
And I think even though we have had some | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
success in Europe in the past, it is time to move on. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
It can be a pretty lonely job trying to persuade Scots | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
to vote to leave and nearly all the senior politicians | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
in Scotland will be campaigning to stay. | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
Here in Scotland, we need a Scottish government to stand up | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
against Brussels and fight for our steel | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
workers and steel industry, our farming industry and our fishing | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
industry and sadly they're not doing that. | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Those campaigning to stay in the EU have a much easier job in Scotland. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
Polls show Scots are more likely to opt to remain than voters | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
So in the end, it could be Scottish votes | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
The date was confirmed, June 23rd when British voters will decide | :14:14. | :14:39. | |
whether the U. K stays in the European Union. | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Nick Higham has been talking to voters in Camberley in Surrey, | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
where the local MP is Michael Gove, the Justice Secretary, | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
The wind and rain kept many of the shoppers indoors, | :14:50. | :14:59. | |
a chance to ask the stall holders what they think of Europe | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
and which way they will vote in the referendum. | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
Are you going to vote to stay in or go out. | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
It is crippling our country, especially small | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
We are being ruled by unelected people in Brussels | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
We have lost a lot of our independence, but then we do, | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
being part of Europe does work for us financially. | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
Wouldn't you have to pay more for your imported | :15:34. | :15:35. | |
People like the Greeks would probably charge us a lot | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
This is Michael Gove's constituency, overwhelmingly | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
Conservative, but just as the Cabinet is divided over | :15:49. | :15:57. | |
Europe, so are Mr Gove's constituents. | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
I would definitely be on his side, I just don't think the way things | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
are in Europe, Europe's getting too big | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
and I think we should be better off trading with the rest of the world | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
As Europe's grown, it is getting too big. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
It is best for our security, it is best for our economic | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
I think jobs will benefit from staying in Europe. | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
Coming out of the rain as you discover that Camberley's | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
main shopping centre is busy and bustling. | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
You would expect that, this is a wealthy part of the world. | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
The other thing you discover is that even though the local MP has come | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
down firmly on one side of the argument, many people around | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
here are still undecided about which way | :16:35. | :16:35. | |
I'm going to listen to all the arguments actually. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
I thought I would be staying in, but I'm just going to listen | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
to all the arguments before making a decision. | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
I need to know about the benefits of being in or out. | :16:47. | :17:02. | |
I haven't decided, I don't think I know enough at the moment | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
Despite David Cameron's deal in Brussels, it seems | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
And just a reminder that you can find detail, | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
background and analysis about the referendum | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
and the all issues involved on our website at bbc.co.uk/news. | :17:18. | :17:32. | |
Laura, given we heard about the up decideds, it shows it is all to play | :17:33. | :17:41. | |
for? Yes it is. During those months there will be a bewildering whirl of | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
claim and counter claim. There will be a lot of political focus. How can | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
each party handle it. How does the Government cope with being divided. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
What it is going to come down for a lot of people is an instinct. It is | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
about our identity and for a lot of people it will be a feeling in their | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
gut. We heard people are not sure about this yet. But no mistake, this | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
is as a country, the biggest political decision we will have made | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
for more than four decades. Thank you. | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
Before we go, a reminder that David Cameron, Nigel Farage | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
and Nicola Sturgeon will all be talking to Andrew Marr tomorrow | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
morning at 9 o'clock here on BBC One. | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
But for now, from all of the team in Downing Street, | :18:34. | :18:36. | |
Good evening. The weather continues to keep us on our toes. Today it | :18:37. | :18:57. | |
felt like spring in the west country with temperatures in the low teens. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Contrast that with the winter scene in the Highlands where there has | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
been a lot of snow. The snow will continue to pile up in northern | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
Scotland tonight. | :19:10. | :19:11. |