Cameron pressured to let ministers push for British exit from EU

David Cameron faced pressure to give Eurosceptic ministers licence to campaign for Britain to leave the EU as an MP said opinion within the party was “substantially hardening” against his renegotiation effort.

Steve Baker, of the Conservatives For Britain group, said he believed more than half the Conservative Party “is strongly leaning to ’leave”’ and that senior resignations were inevitable if the Cabinet was forced to toe a common line.