Dear Editor,

People who criticise the Prime Minister’s EU negotiation demands for being unambitious are wide of the mark.

You only need to look at the response from the Commission - “highly problematic” - to realise he has asked for plenty of things they will only concede through gritted teeth.

In fact Mr Cameron has produced a carefully calibrated list of demands. They are achievable but some will be extremely challenging.

His points on migration and greater powers for national parliaments will be particularly hard to swallow for those in Brussels who like things just as they are.

Our Prime Minister has set out a recipe for greater accountability, flexibility and competitiveness, with less red tape, remoteness and self-satisfaction. If he can deliver it we will be doing the rest of Europe as big a favour as he does Britain. He has set out something worth fighting for.

Those who claim he is merely tinkering are the ones who would not want to stay in the EU, whatever he delivered.

Anthea McIntyre

West Midlands MEP