Brussels: During his final Brussels summit British Prime Minister David Cameron went down blaming the EU for his country's historic snub to the Union. Mr Cameron's appearance at the summit was extremely brief - he left the other 27 leaders to begin discussing their future without the UK on Thursday.
According to a source the British PM said “that one of the key issues in the referendum campaign, why so many voted to leave, is this sense that there was no control of immigration or free movement, that was one of the factors."
"If the EU wants a close economic relationship with the UK, then that does mean you are going to have to work out how do you address the issue of freedom of movement as part of that negotiation," the government source was quoted as saying by media agencies in the UK.
According to report, Mr Cameron had earlier pressed for control on immigration but was told that was illegal under Brussels law. He however did manage to extract a ban on state-backed benefits to immigrants arriving in the UK.
