GETTY David Cameron's hopes of convincing the British public to stay in the EU have taken a major hit

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The UK Treasury vowed to keep arguing for cutbacks in talks which started yesterday to seek a compromise between the European Parliament and the EU’s 28 member states. But Members of the European Parliament celebrating their victory for higher spending cite EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s statement earlier this week that the EU’s current planned 2016 budget was too small to cope with the waves of refugees arriving from Syria and the wider region. The decision to reverse government’s cuts and insist on 2016 spending that was nearly £3 billion higher than members states wanted was voted through the European Parliament on Wednesday night. It means a £384m share may have to come from British taxpayers.

GETTY Britain has been slapped with a bill of more than £350m to address the migrant crisis

The budget top up process which started yesterday and in which the EU Commission also sits as so-called “honest broker” - officially has 21 days, until midnight on November 18, to reach a deal. If the governments reject the MEPs’ demands, the European Parliament could force its preferred budget, through providing three fifths of Members present vote in favour and those three fifths comprise at least half of all MEPs. But talks with governments can also continue beyond 21 days, based on a new draft budget from the Commission to produce agreement in time for January 1. If a deal still cannot be reached, a system of month-to-month funding will apply until there is agreement. This method has not been used since 1988.

AP Migrants continue to arrive in Europe daily, placing even further strain on EU member states

David Cameron is proud of securing an agreement that EU overall spending will not increase over the lifetime of its current 2014-2020 “multi annual” spending budget framework.

This is a major defeat for Cameron who boasted of getting an agreement to cut the budget Jonathan Arnott, Ukip MEP

If next year’s budget rose that goal would require cuts in subsequent years - which sceptics doubt MEPs and the Commission would ever back. Jonathan Arnott MEP of the UK Independence Party, which tried more than 140 amendments on Wednesday to cut back spending, said: “This is a major defeat for Cameron who boasted of getting an agreement to cut the budget. This has been shown to be a sham. “The EU loves spending member states’ money. The only way to stop them doing this is to leave the EU.” Ukip deputy leader Paul Nuttall added: “Europhiles are now demanding more taxpayers’ money to fund the passage of economic migrants from the Middle East.” Conservative European Parliament budget spokesman Richard Ashworth said: “This is not the right time for the European Parliament to go back to governments and ask for more money. Instead we need to take some tough decisions about our priorities.”

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GETTY Cameron has promised a renegotiation of Britain's role within the EU before 2017's in/out referendum