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| Ministers 'free to campaign for both sides on EU vote' | Ministers 'free to campaign for both sides on EU vote' |
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| David Cameron is to allow ministers to campaign for either side in the referendum once a deal is reached on the UK's relationship with the EU. | |
| BBC 5 Live chief political correspondent John Pienaar said the PM would announce the move later. | |
| The prime minister is currently renegotiating the UK's EU membership before putting it to a public vote. | |
| The referendum - to be held before the end of 2017 - will ask whether the UK should stay in the EU. | |
| A number of cabinet ministers are thought to favour an out vote, with Mr Cameron expected to campaign for Britain to remain in the EU, although he has said he rules nothing out if he does not get what he wants from his renegotiations. | |
| If the PM had decided to insist on collective cabinet responsibility, he would have been forced to sack ministers who disagreed with him. | |
| Former Prime Minister Sir John Major had called for collective responsibility for the cabinet during the EU referendum campaign, but ex-leader Lord Howard said collective responsibility should only last while the renegotiations were continuing. | |
| Mr Cameron is set to address MPs at 15:30 GMT in a statement on December's EU summit, at which the UK's renegotiation demands were discussed. | |
| Read more about the UK's EU referendum: | |
| Q&A: What Britain wants from Europe | |
| Guide to the UK's planned in-out EU referendum | |
| BBC News EU referendum special report |