U.K. Referendum on EU Should Be in 2016, Labour’s Burnham Says
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Prime Minister David Cameron should bring forward his referendum on Britain’s EU membership to 2016, according to Andy Burnham, the opposition Labour Party’s health spokesman and favorite with bookmakers to be its new leader.
Cameron, who has pledged to hold a vote by the end of 2017 after renegotiating the terms of the nation’s membership of the bloc, has said the timing may be accelerated if he can make swift progress. Burnham said on Sunday that a deal on limiting immigrants’ access to welfare would be crucial to winning the referendum.