Mr Johnson went on: “The EU goes at the pace of the slowest boat in the convoy and the UK’s interests can not be properly expressed by the Brussels Commission, which has total control of our trade policy”.
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Speaking on The BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show” on Sunday, Major said he was “angry at the way British people are being misled” by the Leave campaign.
Major dismissed Johnson’s chances, saying he was a “charming court jester” but would be unlikely to command the loyalty of party lawmakers. “On one hand, migrants are depressing wages, on the other hand, they are flooding here to get higher national wages”, Major said.
He told a packed rally at Forman’s Fish Island in Stratford, East London: “I’m going to channel – I hope we all will – my inner Barack Obama”.
“If we stay, we are tying ourselves to a broken Eurozone economy while simultaneously accepting unlimited migration of people trying to escape that broken economy”, they wrote.
He said: “I’m looking at the sporting side – how youngsters aren’t getting the opportunities at some of the big clubs and some of the big clubs are bringing in youngsters from 14, 15, 16 and becoming home grown, which is pushing some of our youngsters out”.
Mr Johnson said it was “absolute nonsense” that he was backing Brexit out of personal leadership ambitions.
Setting out detailed claims about the “dangers” of the European Union, they criticised the Prime Minister’s renegotiation package for failing to secure real change.
Mr Johnson claimed the UK’s population could rise “inexorably”, potentially as high as 80 million.
“Instead all they were able to offer was name calling and an attempt to rewrite history, rather than a serious debate about the issues”.
Sir John today slammed Vote Leave for a campaign over immigration “verging on the squalid”. “The British people deserve better than that”.
Britons will vote on whether or not to sever ties with Brussels in an historic referendum on June 23.
He said: “We wouldn’t have left the European Union by the end of this Parliament but we would in due course bring it down to the tens of thousands”.
Major said: “I’m not personalising this, though I find it very hard to understand how he can justify the £350 million that he has on his battle bus”.
But meeting the target of cutting net migration to the “tens of thousands” would mean tighter entry requirements across the board, if immigration continues at its current levels, as Mr Gove appeared to acknowledge in his Peston interview.
Mr Gove also 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.
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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”.
