In a deal struck with fellow leaders in February, Prime Minister David Cameron won the right for Britain to opt out of the group’s principle of “ever closer union” and for national parliaments, working in concert, to block some EU legislative proposals.
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Answering a question from the audience, Mr Gove insisted he was advancing “Project Hope” and not “Project Lies” but tore into the Remain campaign and David Cameron’s performance on Sky News on Thursday night.
Despite continued blue-on-blue infighting ahead of the referendum, now less than three weeks away, the PM stressed Mr Johnson, Mr Gove and other senior Tories who back Brexit “will not be sacked” following the vote.
“And on the subject that they have veered towards, having lost the economic argument, of immigration, I think their campaign is verging on the squalid”.
Perhaps the most memorable comment came from a member of the audience, Ms Soraya Bouazzaoui, who, when dissatisfied with a response from Mr Cameron, interjected: “I’m an English literature student; I know waffling when I see it”.
In an increasingly tetchy exchange, Mr Gove told the interviewer: “I’m absolutely not unique. My view about the European Union has changed but that is because the European Union has changed out of all recognition”.
Rick Fisher is part of High Wycombe’s Vote Leave campaign.
The Prime Minister “didn’t get a sausage” from his renegotiations on Britain’s relationship with Brussels, he added.
The leaders of some of Britain’s trade unions – Labour’s biggest financial backers – are among those who say Corbyn should be doing more to help keep Britain in the EU.
“British taxpayers are already paying almost £2 billion for Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey to join the EU. We’re going to take back control”.
Pledges made by London’s former mayor and Michael Gove to persuade the public to exit the European Union has been labelled “nonsense on stilts” by the vexed Prime Minister.
Meanwhile Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Amartya Sen warned Europe was likely to act like a “jilted suitor” if Britain left the EU.
“It’s common sense: if you cut yourself off from your biggest market your economy will be poorer – and they know that”.
“We grew very successfully in the 1980s and the 1990s with immigration in the tens of thousands”.
“My feeling is that the British people want the facts and Michael was a fact-free zone tonight”, said Falconer.
He claimed the single market is “rigged” in favour of investment banks like Goldman Sachs which “signed off” Greece’s entry to the euro and was responsible “for numerous woes” that led to the 2008 crash.
Gove maintained that leaving the bloc would not have any effect on British citizens who live in the EU.
“I am glad all these organisations are not on my side”.
“I can not think that someone will kick me out but if we are to fall under the same regulations and the same rules as other immigrants then certainly we will need some type of visa”.
“Unelected, unaccountable elites, I’m afraid it’s time to say “You’re fired”.
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Maciej Zakshevsky has lived in Hereford since November when he moved to gain experience for teacher training, and said he believes it would be better better for both Britain and Europe if Brexit doesn’t happen.
