In today’s speech, to be delivered in the City of London, Mr Cameron will attempt to address both sets of concern by arguing that the public’s opinions must be sought because disillusionment with the EU is at an “all-time high”. Among the reasons for this, he says, are that people feel that the EU is “heading in a direction that they never signed up to” and a resentment over “interference in our national life”. “The result is that democratic consent for the EU in Britain is now wafer thin,” he says.