The European Union will "lurch very much in the wrong direction"
if Britain votes to leave in an in/out referendum, Foreign Secretary
Philip Hammond warned Sunday.
The British minister predicted that negotiations with other European
leaders to secure a reform deal for the bloc "would go to the wire" at a
European Council summit on Thursday and Friday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is trying to force changes in
four main areas, the most contentious being limiting access to welfare
benefits for EU migrants for their first four years in the country.
"There isn't a deal yet," Hammond told BBC's Andrew Marr Show. "We have to make progress, there are blanks in the text.
