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Immigration, jobs, economy still dominate campaign for Brexit referendum

The EU will vote on Brexit June 23.

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It followed Thursday night’s show which had a similar format but featured Mr Cameron, who is campaigning for Remain.

In response to Cameron’s reply, one of the audience member accused him of dodging the question and alleged that “I’m an English literature student” so “I know waffling when I see it”.

The interviewer, Faisal Islam, repeatedly challenged the prime minster as to why the government was failing to meet its target of reducing net annual migration below 100,000.

“If we vote to stay in that pressure is going to rise because of economic failure in the eurozone will mean that many more young people will leave the eurozone where they have sky-high levels of youth unemployment to come to the United Kingdom to seek work”. Mr Farage will appear in a live set-piece debate on an ITV programme with Mr Cameron albeit not at the same time.

The referendum campaign is growing increasingly heated as widely varying polls suggest an unpredictable result.

Gove was asked to explain the Leave campaign’s claim that the United Kingdom sends £350 million [$508 million] a week to the EU.

Cameron rejected claims that he was scaremongering ahead of the vote.

He accused the Prime Minister of showing a “sheer level of dishonesty and deception” in his response to voters’ questions about controlling Britain’s borders and declared: “All I have to do next week is tell the truth because the British public are ready to hear it”.

But Mr Gove insisted that Vote Leave were offering “Project Hope” and he refused to back down on the contested figure, warning that the UK’s rebate could be “whittled away” if Britain remains a member of the EU.

The move comes after David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary, said Labour needed to work harder to make its own “distinctive” case for Britain staying in the EU.

At a rally in London, the leading Brexiteer said: “If we vote Leave we will be able to forge bold new trade deals with growing economies around the world”.

Cameron also denied using hyperbole when he claimed last month that a Brexit would increase the risk of European war.

But he said “this will not last forever” and is not a reason to withdraw from the EU. “Can we be so confident that we have solved all of Europe’s problems and all of Europe’s tensions?”

On the question of whether people thought obeying European Union laws was a price worth paying for free trade with the EU’s single market, 54% did not, 36% did and 7% did not know.

Leave campaigners are holding a London rally championing the Brexit cause.

Mr Cameron underlined his frustrations with Brussels, telling the newspaper: ” You’ve got people who are p***** off with some of things it has done.

Cameron conceded that he often found dealings with the European Union frustrating.

“I am glad that all these organisations are not on my side”, Gove said.

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Out supporters have said the money could be better spent on schools and hospitals in Britain, but Major said “these promises of expenditure on the National Health Service or elsewhere are frankly fatuous”.

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