David Cameron calls for EU reform mandate

David Cameron has appealed to voters to give him a mandate to reform the European Union and to re-negotiate the terms of Britain’s membership.

Arriving at the European Council in Brussels for the final time before the general election, he said voters face a “big choice” over Britain’s future relations with the EU when the country goes to the polls on May 7.

“This the last time I’m going to walk through those doors before May 7. I want to come back here with a very clear mandate to reform this organisation, to re-negotiate Britain’s position within it and to hold that in/out referendum guaranteed before the end of 2017,” he said.

“There are only two people who can walk through those doors after the election – either me and you get a re-negotiation and a referendum, or Ed Miliband and you’ll get no re-negotiation, no referendum.

“That is the choice. It’s a very big choice for the British people but I know I only want to come back here if I can hold that re-negotiation, hold that referendum.”