It’s payback time as David Cameron vows to make Leave campaigners like Boris Johnson “pay” for their claims about Britain’s future with the EU.
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It said the European Union has become “an engine for job destruction” and warned that Britain would have to continue accepting “unlimited migration of people trying to escape that broken economy” unless it votes to leave.
Greg Hands, chief secretary to the Treasury, said: “Doctors and nurses want to stay in Europe because they understand that quitting the single market would damage the NHS by shrinking the economy”. He said: “If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can – if we leave the European Union – ensure the next generation make this country once more truly great”. That means there will be less money – not more.
Half the people asked in today’s poll, carried out for the Observer, said leaving the European Union would mean Britain gaining greater control of its borders – a key win for the Out campaign. And, in terms of what they are saying about immigration – a really depressing and bad campaign.
But the economic impact of Brexit would mean there is less money to pump into health care, the Prime Minister insisted.
He was adding to the points made in a letter from him and fellow Brexit campaigners Conservative MP Michael Gove and Labour’s Gisela Stuart to the Prime Minister claiming that remaining a member of the bloc left the the United Kingdom “dangerously and permanently exposed to being forced to hand over more money and accept damaging new laws”.
The Justice Secretary made the NHS funding claims just hours after he faced a live television grilling ahead of the June 23 poll.
Although Gove agreed much of this comes back, Remain say the figures quoted by Leave are misleading.
There are less than three weeks left in a race that opinion polls show is on a knife edge, raising the prospect of Britain becoming the first country to leave the 28-nation bloc. “It was extraordinary. There was no detail there”.
Former Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman, responded: “The Leave campaign are making it up as they go along: they say they will deliver promises by 2020, but then they admit that we wouldn’t have left Europe by 2020”.
“This is proper Trump politics”, Islam told Gove.
“I think it’s time that we said to people who are incapable of acknowledging that they’ve ever got anything wrong: ‘I’m sorry, you’ve had your day'”.
The justice secretary admitted he could not name any independent economic authorities that backed Brexit; the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the OECD are all backing a remain vote.
But Mr Johnson explained: “What Michael rather brilliantly said was that there might be some job losses among UK Euro MPs”. Gove, though, handled them well, repeatedly going back to the democratic argument for leaving: that Britain would be better off “taking control” of its own affairs.
“It is that sort of sneering condescension towards people who believe in democracy that discredits those on the remain side of the campaign”.
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“The only way to restore democratic control of immigration is to vote to leave”. That rebate can be whittled away.
