Leave campaigners have been handed another boost, with the latest YouGov figures again showing a lead for Brexit, while nearly three quarters of voters say they don’t trust the Prime Minister.
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The poll for ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” programme put “Leave” voters at 45 percent and “Remain” at 41 percent, Bloomberg reported, citing an emailed statement.
The ever-tighter battle has split the ruling Conservative Party, weighed on the pound and rattled “Remain” campaigners led by Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, who have stepped up warnings of the economic consequences of a pullout from the EU.
A day earlier, Mr Johnson was the subject of a scathing attack at the hands of former Conservative Prime Minister John Major.
“I am angry at the way the British people are being misled, this is much more important than a general election, this is going to affect people, their livelihoods, their future, for a very long time to come and if they are given honest, straightforward facts and they decide to leave, then that is the decision the British people take”.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy today warned that a vote to leave the European Union would mean British citizens would lose the right to move freely around Europe.
The Leave campaign is targeting the prime minister’s credibility with a new poster saying “You can’t trust David Cameron on immigration”. Speaking on the “Andrew Marr Show”, Johnson echoed that sentiment and described Cameron as “the best man for the job”.
He will claim the United Kingdom would have to pay Brussels an additional £2.4bn.
“Most people would say, and they would be absolutely right, that we had lost control of that 350 million”, Johnson said.
“It’s time for the Leave campaign to outline their economic plan for Britain outside Europe”, they will argue.
Denouncing Brexit’s announcement that money saved by leaving the European Union would be handed to the National Health Service (NHS), Major claimed the NHS would be about as safe in the hands of Johnson and his allies “as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python”.
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Mr Major said that the NHS would be as safe with Mr Johnson and Mr Gove as “as a pet hamster with a hungry python”.
