The full text of the speech can be read here.
I'm not Cameron's biggest fan by any stretch of the imagination but I agree with quite a lot of the content of that speech.
I think it's a bit optimistic to promise a referendum based on a newly negotiated relationship with the EU within the first half of the next parliament.
It's very difficult to say which way I would vote without knowing what the details of this new relationship but at the moment, for all its faults, I don't think it would be a good idea to leave the EU.
I'm not Cameron's biggest fan by any stretch of the imagination but I agree with quite a lot of the content of that speech.
David Cameron said:The next Conservative Manifesto in 2015 will ask for a mandate from the British people for a Conservative Government to negotiate a new settlement with our European partners in the next Parliament.
It will be a relationship with the Single Market at its heart.
And when we have negotiated that new settlement, we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in or out choice. To stay in the EU on these new terms; or come out altogether.
It will be an in-out referendum.
Legislation will be drafted before the next election. And if a Conservative Government is elected we will introduce the enabling legislation immediately and pass it by the end of that year. And we will complete this negotiation and hold this referendum within the first half of the next parliament.
I think it's a bit optimistic to promise a referendum based on a newly negotiated relationship with the EU within the first half of the next parliament.
It's very difficult to say which way I would vote without knowing what the details of this new relationship but at the moment, for all its faults, I don't think it would be a good idea to leave the EU.