The consensus amongst mainstream European leaders and institutions is that a Brexit would be damaging to the United Kingdom and Europe as a whole.
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“Those Labour seeks to represent – the hard-working, ambitious majority – have the most to lose if we leave”.
Mr. Cameron, who is leading the campaign to keep the U.K.in the European Union, said at an event hosted by Sky News that it would be wrong to try to control immigration by pulling out of the EU’s single trading market of 500 million people, which would cause a severe shock to the economy.
The Britain Stronger In Europe campaign said that Mr Gove’s appearance revealed “key admissions” from Vote Leave.
He quickly laughed it off though, and moved to to say: “I am genuinely anxious about Britain leaving the single market” when probed about how the United Kingdom would cope post-Brexit.
Brexit backers Johnson and Gove said the United Kingdom will strike up a series of swift and lucrative worldwide trade deals if people vote out in the June 23 referendum.
After the show, Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott said: “David Cameron came face to face with real voters and tough questions for the first time in the campaign tonight and it wasn’t pretty – his scaremongering was ridiculed by the audience in the studio and at home”.
“It’s common sense: if you cut yourself off from your biggest market your economy will be poorer – and they know that”.
But he insisted “this is not about scaring anybody”, as he set out concerns that the United Kingdom would face barriers to trade with the 500 million-population European single market if it votes Leave on June 23. “I’m afraid it’s time to say you’re fired, let’s take back control”, he said.
She challenged him on the issue of Turkey’s membership but was quick to criticise when the Prime Minister seemingly tried to avoid answering the question.
Challenged over the lack of backing from top economists for Vote Leave, he said: “Many of those organisations that have been cited so regularly as being in favour of our being in the European Union are organisations that have consistently made errors, that receive money in many cases from the EU”.
“I sit round the European Council table, it can be immensely frustrating but when you’re there you never forget that 70 years ago these countries were fighting each other”.
“On our continent in the last century, twice we had an enormous bloodbath between our nations”, he said.
“Jobs will be lost if we leave; no economic experts support their case; they have no plan at all”, a campaign spokesperson said.
And just as business and military leaders have been furiously signing letters arguing for and against Brexit, stars in the world of culture and sport have also penned public messages.
“And yes we do need to do things to control migration like restricting in-work welfare (payments) but it would be madness to try to do that by trashing our economy and pulling out of the single market”, Cameron said.
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There has also been a drop in people leaving the UK.
