David Cameron will seek guarantees from MEP leaders tomorrow that they will not veto an emergency brake on migrant benefits after he was forced to abandon efforts to win a promise to enshrine the curbs in a treaty change.
At talks in Brussels this week, No 10 had been considering a move to demand legal guarantees to ensure that the brake, a central tenet of the UK’s renegotiation, could not be unpicked by MEPs after the UK’s referendum.
It is understood that Downing St dropped the plan after concluding it would be unworkable, because instead of bypassing MEPs and their ability to block the brake the move to write it into a protocol would itself need to be passed by the European parliament. Tomorrow the