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Cameron to speed up EU talks before referendum

Prime Minister David Cameron is to make Finance Minister George Osborne his lead negotiator on Europe and speed up his push to win concessions from the EU before a planned referendum on Britain’s membership of the bloc, a newspaper reported.

The Sunday Times said Osborne would be backed by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. Cameron will send them to Berlin and Brussels as part of a 100-day plan after winning a parliamentary majority on Thursday.

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