Letters to the Editor

SIR - The proposed reforms - to exempt Britain from ever-closer union, to protect us from discrimination outside the eurozone, to return power to national parliaments, to cut red tape and to apply an immediate brake to benefit payments for EU migrants - all address key concerns about the EU.

These reforms are substantial and would redefine our relationship with Europe. The Prime Minister said he would negotiate a better deal for Britain and he is succeeding. In the tough remaining phase of negotiations, he deserves our support.

With these reforms Britain will have the best of both worlds: outside the euro, and protected from deeper integration, but able to access the single market; in the world's greatest trading block of over 500 million people, but outside the Schengen area and so able to maintain our borders.

We urge fellow Conservatives to support the campaign for Britain to remain in a reformed EU.

Sir Nicholas Soames MP, Keith Simpson MP

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