Cameron aide named EU ambassador

One of David Cameron’s most senior advisers is to become Britain’s new ambassador to the EU.

Former finance ministry official Ivan Rogers, who advises the prime minister on the EU and global issues, will be handed one of the toughest jobs in diplomacy at a historic moment in Britain’s often tortured relationship with its biggest trading partner.

If re-elected in 2015, Mr Cameron has promised to give Britons an EU membership referendum by the end of 2017, raising the prospect that the sixth largest economy in the world could exit a body it first joined in 1973.