With the black door of 10 Downing St. offering a statesman’s backdrop, Prime Minister David Cameron appealed directly to EU-wary older voters, saying that leaving the bloc would risk the country’s economic security – and younger generations would have to live with the consequences.
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The Prime Minister used the hastily-arranged speech to emphasise the Remain campaign’s message that the British economy will suffer if there is a vote to leave the EU. “Our membership of the European Union helps me”.
Campaigners from the “Vote Remain” group hand out stickers, flyers and posters in Oxford Circus, central London, on Tuesday.
Leave: Brussels imposes too much red tape on British business, according to the Leave camp, which says the top 100 regulations cost Britain’s economy more than 33 billion per year.
The Mirror described it as “the most divisive, vile and unpleasant political campaign in living memory”.
“She anxious about the tone of the debate” that focused increasingly on immigration and “about the tone of whipping up fears and whipping up hatred”. “It can sometimes be frustrating that organisations feel constrained and say they can’t take sides or put their heads over the parapet”.
World markets are on alert over the historic vote, with many markets edging gingerly higher on the expectation that Britons will finally decide to stay.
British Prime Minister David Cameron warned Tuesday that a vote to leave the European Union in less than 48 hours would damage the economy, representing a “huge risk” for jobs and families.
Cameron warned that future generations would be left with a damaged, diminished economy if Britain became the first country to withdraw from the European Union in the bloc’s 60-year history.
“Brits don’t quit. We get involved, we take a lead, we make a difference, we get things done. I think you would have a two or three-year economic downturn with huge uncertainty that would be very bad, not just for the United Kingdom economy but for the European economy, which is already struggling”. It will just be you in that polling booth.
That issue again gained prominence when Cameron’s former close aide Steve Hilton said civil servants had explicitly told the prime minister four years ago that his target to cut net immigration to the tens of thousands was unachievable because of the free movement demanded by the EU.
The “Leave” and “Remain” campaigns, which have been neck and neck in the polls, resumed their activities Sunday following a pause in the wake of last week’s shocking killing of lawmaker Jo Cox, a rising star in the opposition Labour Party.
Opponents said Cameron’s appearance suggested he was anxious about the outcome.
But the websites of six major bookmakers showed the odds heavily pointing to a “Remain” vote, with the chances of Britain staying in put at almost 80 percent.
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Some “Leave” campaigners accuse the “Remain” camp of exploiting the death as part of what they portray as a campaign of scaremongering over the referendum by the establishment at home and overseas.
Johnson, one of the most prominent campaigners on the “leave” side, distanced himself from U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who has been widely criticized for a poster showing visible minority immigrants massing on the borders with the words “BREAKING POINT” emblazoned across it.
A previous Survation telephone poll for the Mail on Sunday gave Remain a three point lead (45-42 per cent).
Former England soccer captain David Beckham, a hugely popular public figure, added his voice to Remain’s list of celebrity supporters. “We say they are woefully underestimating this country and what it can do”, Johnson said.
He said he would push for new trade deals and new co-operation in fighting terrorism – Britain holds the European Union presidency next year – as well as for wider economic reform.
“Our handsome countryside is what makes Britain the place it is and this island was not designed for 100 million people”, he wrote in the Daily Express newspaper.
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Accused by the Leave side of running a “fear-project” campaign, he spoke of the heavy responsibility of his function and said that “every living prime minister” was, like him, convinced that “we are better off inside the European Union than out on our own”.
