Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday promised to hold a referendum by the end of 2017 giving British people the choice of staying in or leaving the EU if his party wins the next election.
In a long-awaited speech in London, Cameron said he wanted to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s troubled membership of the European Union before putting the new agreement to the people in a vote. British people would face a “very simple choice” - either to accept the outcome of the negotiations or to leave the EU altogether after four decades of membership. “It is time for the British people to have their say,” he said.