MOSCOW, April 29 (RIA Novosti) – UK Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to resign if he fails to hold a referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union after the next general election, The Independent media outlet reported Tuesday.
“I would not be prime minister of a government unless we could carry out our pledge of an in-out referendum,” Cameron said in a conference call with his Conservative party supporters, according to the newspaper.
“It would be very high up the list of priorities for an incoming government,” the prime minister added.
In January 2013, David Cameron promised a referendum on British membership of the European Union if the Conservative Party win a majority at the next general election scheduled for 2015.
Membership in the EU has long been a controversial issue in the United Kingdom. Eurosceptics believe the UK would be better off outside the bloc. No member state has ever left the EU but after the UK joined its precursor, the European Economic Community in 1973, the decision was put to a referendum in 1975 which endorsed the continuation of the UK's membership.
