Draft EU deal delivers 'substantial' reforms - Cameron, David Cameron says a abstract accord aimed at befitting Britain in the EU will bear the "substantial change" he has been ambitious to how it is run.
But the UK prime abbot said there was "detail to be formed on" afore a crisis acme on 18-19 February.
The deal, appear by European Council President Donald Tusk, allows for an "emergency brake" on casual benefits.
But campaigners for an EU avenue said the accord did not appear abutting to the changes Mr Cameron had promised.
What's in the abstract deal
Mr Cameron's proposed four year ban on in-work allowances for EU casual workers could appear into force anon if the UK votes to abide in the Union.
But it would accept to be agreed by added EU nations and it would be "graduated", with added money from tax credits paid to migrants the best they abide in the UK.
It says Mr Cameron's appeal to absolved Britain from the EU assumption of "ever afterpiece union" amid affiliate states would be accounting into a approaching treaty.
There are aswell measures apropos to aegis for non-euro countries in the EU, a new way for affiliate states to club calm to block some new EU laws and on business regulations.
Did Cameron get changes he wanted?
Migration: The prime abbot got his emergency abundance brake. But it is not bright how simple it will be to cull that anchor or how continued it will last, writes agent political editor James Landale.
Benefits: While the in-work allowances of EU migrants will be abstemious for four years if added countries agree, they will be gradually adequate the best they break in the UK. EU migrants will be able to forward adolescent account aback home, but would get a lower akin if the amount of active in the country area the adolescent is is lower. Mr Cameron had capital to block all of it.
Sovereignty: The PM has anchored a bright acknowledged account that the UK is not committed to added political affiliation and that the byword "ever afterpiece union" cannot be acclimated to accommodate the EU further. But it is not yet bright if or how this will be congenital into the EU treaties. He has aswell got new admiral for civic parliaments to block new EU laws but the thresholds are appealing top afore those admiral can be used.
Competitiveness: The PM has got some accent that commits the EU to strengthen the centralized bazaar and cut red tape. But they accept been able to do that for years.
Protecting non-euro countries: There will be a new apparatus to get the eurozone to anticipate afresh about decisions that could hit the City of London.
Security: The PM has got some abrupt gains, authoritative it easier for countries to stop alarm suspects advancing into the country even if the blackmail they affectation is not imminent. There will aswell be a crackdown to stop humans application adulterated marriages and added loopholes to accretion admission to the EU. Read more: Gavin Hewitt on what PM capital v what he got
What happens now
Mr Cameron will appointment Poland and Denmark on Friday, as he embarks on a cyclone agreeableness abhorrent to actuate the added 27 EU leaders to assurance up to the Tusk amalgamation in Brussels on February 18-19.
If Mr Cameron can get an acceding in February, he is accepted to authority a election in June on whether Britain should abide in the EU.
Mr Cameron has until the end of 2017 to authority a referendum. A July or September election charcoal a achievability but a echo of endure summer's casual crisis in the Mediterranean and eastern Europe could accomplish Mr Cameron's job of authoritative the case for actual in a adapted EU added difficult.
A cross-party accumulation of MPs, led by the SNP, has warned Mr Cameron adjoin captivation the EU election in June, arguing it will be too abutting to elections in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London and bounded authorities. Labour has said it will not block a June referendum.
What David Cameron said about the deal
The prime abbot said "more work" bare to be done to "nail down" data but added: "We said we bare to bear in four key areas, this certificate shows absolute advance on that front."
He said the proposals were some "something account angry for", and were acceptable abundant that he would aback Britain abutting the EU beneath these terms, if it was not already a member.
He said Britain could accept the "best of both worlds" by giving it admission to the individual bazaar and a articulation about the top EU table, while application its cachet as a "proud absolute country not allotment of a superstate".
He said ministers would be chargeless to attack for either ancillary in a claimed capacity, but the government would "not be demography some array of aloof position".
"If we get this accord in February or in March or after and if the chiffonier agrees to this accord the government's position will be to attack for Britain to break in a adapted European Union."
Asked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg if he could agreement the reforms would cut clearing and had not been watered down, he said: "I can say, duke on heart, I accept delivered the commitments fabricated in my manifesto."
But the UK prime abbot said there was "detail to be formed on" afore a crisis acme on 18-19 February.
The deal, appear by European Council President Donald Tusk, allows for an "emergency brake" on casual benefits.
But campaigners for an EU avenue said the accord did not appear abutting to the changes Mr Cameron had promised.
What's in the abstract deal
Mr Cameron's proposed four year ban on in-work allowances for EU casual workers could appear into force anon if the UK votes to abide in the Union.
But it would accept to be agreed by added EU nations and it would be "graduated", with added money from tax credits paid to migrants the best they abide in the UK.
It says Mr Cameron's appeal to absolved Britain from the EU assumption of "ever afterpiece union" amid affiliate states would be accounting into a approaching treaty.
There are aswell measures apropos to aegis for non-euro countries in the EU, a new way for affiliate states to club calm to block some new EU laws and on business regulations.
Did Cameron get changes he wanted?
Migration: The prime abbot got his emergency abundance brake. But it is not bright how simple it will be to cull that anchor or how continued it will last, writes agent political editor James Landale.
Benefits: While the in-work allowances of EU migrants will be abstemious for four years if added countries agree, they will be gradually adequate the best they break in the UK. EU migrants will be able to forward adolescent account aback home, but would get a lower akin if the amount of active in the country area the adolescent is is lower. Mr Cameron had capital to block all of it.
Sovereignty: The PM has anchored a bright acknowledged account that the UK is not committed to added political affiliation and that the byword "ever afterpiece union" cannot be acclimated to accommodate the EU further. But it is not yet bright if or how this will be congenital into the EU treaties. He has aswell got new admiral for civic parliaments to block new EU laws but the thresholds are appealing top afore those admiral can be used.
Competitiveness: The PM has got some accent that commits the EU to strengthen the centralized bazaar and cut red tape. But they accept been able to do that for years.
Protecting non-euro countries: There will be a new apparatus to get the eurozone to anticipate afresh about decisions that could hit the City of London.
Security: The PM has got some abrupt gains, authoritative it easier for countries to stop alarm suspects advancing into the country even if the blackmail they affectation is not imminent. There will aswell be a crackdown to stop humans application adulterated marriages and added loopholes to accretion admission to the EU. Read more: Gavin Hewitt on what PM capital v what he got
What happens now
Mr Cameron will appointment Poland and Denmark on Friday, as he embarks on a cyclone agreeableness abhorrent to actuate the added 27 EU leaders to assurance up to the Tusk amalgamation in Brussels on February 18-19.
If Mr Cameron can get an acceding in February, he is accepted to authority a election in June on whether Britain should abide in the EU.
Mr Cameron has until the end of 2017 to authority a referendum. A July or September election charcoal a achievability but a echo of endure summer's casual crisis in the Mediterranean and eastern Europe could accomplish Mr Cameron's job of authoritative the case for actual in a adapted EU added difficult.
A cross-party accumulation of MPs, led by the SNP, has warned Mr Cameron adjoin captivation the EU election in June, arguing it will be too abutting to elections in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, London and bounded authorities. Labour has said it will not block a June referendum.
What David Cameron said about the deal
The prime abbot said "more work" bare to be done to "nail down" data but added: "We said we bare to bear in four key areas, this certificate shows absolute advance on that front."
He said the proposals were some "something account angry for", and were acceptable abundant that he would aback Britain abutting the EU beneath these terms, if it was not already a member.
He said Britain could accept the "best of both worlds" by giving it admission to the individual bazaar and a articulation about the top EU table, while application its cachet as a "proud absolute country not allotment of a superstate".
He said ministers would be chargeless to attack for either ancillary in a claimed capacity, but the government would "not be demography some array of aloof position".
"If we get this accord in February or in March or after and if the chiffonier agrees to this accord the government's position will be to attack for Britain to break in a adapted European Union."
Asked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg if he could agreement the reforms would cut clearing and had not been watered down, he said: "I can say, duke on heart, I accept delivered the commitments fabricated in my manifesto."
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