OUR big “friends” across the Atlantic are warning Prime Minister David Cameron not to rock the boat too rigorously with the European Union.

They, unlike us, are carefully looking after number one.

America knows it cannot bully France, and Germany is so immensely successful she does not need to court America, so the USA now leans even harder on the UK to get what she wants via Britain.

We should be given the referendum promised by all three major UK Parties, and it should be a straightforward question: “Do you wish this country to remain within the EU?”

David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.