EU referendum: I won't go if Brexit happens, says PM after grilling from Express & Star readers
'I won't go.' That is the defiant message from David Cameron today as he tells our readers that he will stay as Prime Minister even if Britain votes to leave the EU.
Mr Cameron says he is intent on 'seeing through a commitment' to implement the decision of the British people, whatever the result of next month's referendum.
His comments come as part of a question and answer session on the EU – the Prime Minister's first with the readers of any newspaper in the country since the referendum date was set earlier this year.
The Prime Minister agreed to respond to 10 questions on Britain's EU membership, and, true to his word, he has provided the answers.
He pledged to be quizzed in the wake of the Express & Star's EU referendum survey, which saw 80 per cent of more than 8,000 respondents vote in favour of Brexit.
Asked if he would quit as Prime Minister should the 'leave' camp triumph on June 23, Mr Cameron answered with a straight 'no'. He added: "I made a commitment three years ago that I would renegotiate our position in the European Union and put the vote to the public on whether Britain should remain in. I am now seeing through that commitment.
"I fully believe the Black Country, the whole of the West Midlands region and indeed all of the UK will be safer, stronger and better off in a reformed EU."
During the grilling the Prime Minister backed his much criticised renegotiation deal, but stressed that reforms would continue should the 'remain' camp prevail.
He said: "Our task of reforming the European Union should not end with the referendum." He added: "We will continue to pursue ways in which the EU needs to improve."
The Prime Minister says he is committed to stamping out 'something for nothing welfare for migrants' and promised that Britain would never join the Euro, take part in Eurozone bailouts or join the Schengen Agreement. He stressed that his renegotiation deal is 'legally binding and irreversible' and warns that leaving the EU would risk our national security.
He also explains how EU membership means 'more jobs, lower prices and financial security' for people in the Black Country and Staffordshire.
