David Cameron: Tony Blair is wrong

David Cameron has responded to the former Prime Minister’s speech warning of the dangers of holding a referendum on the membership of the EU.

Mr Cameron said: “I think Tony Blair is wrong. I want changes in Europe but then, unlike Tony Blair, I will trust the people in an in-out referendum.

“We should ask people if they want to stay a member of this organisation. You cannot ignore the will of the people as Tony Blair thinks we should – and it is not just him, it is Ed Miliband.

Meanwhile Patrick O’Flynn, Ukip’s economic spokesman, said that Ukip is “a lot less nasty” than those parties who support the EU.

He said: “What I do think is a shame today is to see Tony Blair sort of take a moral superiority stance and say that Ukip is somehow a nasty party because I think it’s a lot less nasty to believe that your country is good enough to govern itself than, for instance, to take your country into a war on a false prospective.”