David Cameron has steered a careful line between pro-Europe business people and his Eurosceptic backbenchers, saying Britain cannot remain in the EU “come what may.”
His remarks at a day-long CBI conference in London were aimed at the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, who is due to tell the same conference that he will keep Britain in the EU, a pledge aimed at easing business fears over his plans to raise taxes.
The president of the Confederation of British Industry used his opening address to repeatedly make clear that it regards EU membership as being beneficial to the UK economy and warn against ending the principle of free movement of labour, as opposed to free movement of benefits.
Miliband is planning to tell the business lobby group later on Monday that the Conservative proposals are a “clear and present danger” to Britain’s prosperity.
