British Prime Minister David Cameron, also a leading campaigner for Britain to stay in Europe, on Thursday night had his first live debate on the issue with members of the public.
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Speaking in the wake of a bruising TV debate, the Prime Minister told Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and other Brexiteers that they would have to follow “the instructions of the public”.
With just three weeks to go before the referendum, and the polls suggesting the result will be close, Cameron faced tough questions over his failure to meet the Conservatives’ election pledge to bring net migration down to the tens of thousands – an issue that Vote Leave have made central to their campaign.
Migration Watch – a think tank calling for reduced levels of migration to the United Kingdom – has dismissed the idea of introducing a points system in the United Kingdom, saying it’s designed for a country like Australia that wants to boost immigration, and criticising it for its inflexibility. “I’ve always believed in having the big players on the pitch”, he said.
He said Leave campaigners were misleading voters by saying Britain paid 350 million pounds ($510 million) a week to Brussels, when two thirds of that came back in subsidies and a rebate.
“Part of that single market is British people being able to work and live in other European countries and Europeans being able to come and live and work in our country”. “And cracking up in the middle of one of my own answers”.
The paper says the country’s electoral commission has admitted that problems with software used by some local authorities mean that some European Union citizens have been “mistakenly” told that they have a right to vote.
The Prime Minister hit back by accusing Islam of being “glib”.
Speaking to Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway, Mr Cameron was asked about immigration in light of the European Union referendum.
Justice Secretary Michael Gove also branded the 28-member bloc a “job-destroying machine” that had hollowed out communities across Britain, citing the failure of his own father’s fishing business which he attributed to European Union quotas.
“Only Labour can save Britain from Brexit”, they said.
“But I do think there are real risks from leaving”.
“I’m the prime minister who sits around the table with 27 other heads of government and state, and sometimes this organization drives me insane, but do I sit there and think Britain would be better off if we left?” he said, adding, ” Absolutely not”.
But the economic impact of Brexit would mean there is less money to pump into health care, the Prime Minister insisted.
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Somewhat ironically in the light of recent events, at the time, the Liberal Democrat’s then-party president Simon Hughes said that the manifesto marked him out as a “convinced anti-European”. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No.
