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EU referendum: David Cameron to set out 'benefits for UK' EU referendum: Cameron angers Leave campaign with 'lost jobs' claim
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David Cameron is to set out what he sees as the benefits of the UK staying in the EU after claims he has focused too much on the risks of leaving. David Cameron has accused Leave campaigners of seeing lost jobs and businesses as "a price worth paying" for getting out of the EU.
The prime minister will say full access to the EU's internal market reduces trade barriers for British firms. He is thought to be referring to comments by Boris Johnson and others although he does not name them.
It comes as Prof Stephen Hawking and 150 other scientists warn that EU exit would be a disaster for UK science. His remarks have angered Leave campaigners who have described them as unworthy of a prime minister.
But Commons leader Chris Grayling will say the UK's sovereignty will continue to be diminished if it stays in the EU. Downing Street says 80% of the PM's speech will focus on the positive economic advantages of EU membership.
Mr Grayling, one of five cabinet ministers backing EU exit, will say Mr Cameron's renegotiation deal may leave the UK in a worse position than before, unable to veto future political integration in the EU. But he will also suggest that people will pay higher mortgages if the UK leaves the EU because of the pressure on the pound and interest rates.
Voters will decide on 23 June whether the UK should remain a member of the EU or leave in a referendum that the prime minister will describe as "the most important decision for this country in a generation".
In a speech to car workers, Mr Cameron will say people want the facts and arguments about the EU presented in a "calm and rational way".In a speech to car workers, Mr Cameron will say people want the facts and arguments about the EU presented in a "calm and rational way".
Retaining full access to the EU's single market, he will argue, enables British businesses to sell their goods, without the threat of tariffs, to 500 million people, bypass trade obstacles and be a part of the most "ambitious and comprehensive" free trade agreements with the rest of the world.Retaining full access to the EU's single market, he will argue, enables British businesses to sell their goods, without the threat of tariffs, to 500 million people, bypass trade obstacles and be a part of the most "ambitious and comprehensive" free trade agreements with the rest of the world.
"The question isn't whether Britain could still be a great country outside Europe," he will say. "Of course it could. The question is: where will our economy be stronger; where will our children have more opportunities.""The question isn't whether Britain could still be a great country outside Europe," he will say. "Of course it could. The question is: where will our economy be stronger; where will our children have more opportunities."
BBC political correspondent Eleanor Garnier said Mr Cameron was expected to make a more positive case for the UK remaining within the EU after government warnings that leaving would be an enormous gamble were dubbed Project Fear by Eurosceptics.
However, Mr Cameron will also criticise opponents who he claims are willing to sacrifice economic prosperity for wider political goals. "For those who advocate leaving, lost jobs and a dented economy might be collateral damage, or a price worth paying. For me, they're not. They never are."However, Mr Cameron will also criticise opponents who he claims are willing to sacrifice economic prosperity for wider political goals. "For those who advocate leaving, lost jobs and a dented economy might be collateral damage, or a price worth paying. For me, they're not. They never are."
The speech comes a day after former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg accused Leave campaigners of "dragging" the Queen into the EU debate after the Sun published a story about the monarch's views on Europe, suggesting she "backs Brexit". The Britain Stronger in Europe campaign has released a list of quotes from Leave campaigners it claims backs up the prime minister's point.
Buckingham Palace has dismissed the story and made a formal complaint to the press regulator Ipso about it. 'More jobs'
Meanwhile, Professor Hawking and 150 fellows of the Royal Society, including three Nobel laureates and the Astronomer Royal, have warned in a letter to the Times, that leaving the EU could severely affect research in Britain. They include Boris Johnson saying "well, it might or it might not", when asked by the BBC's Andrew Marr about whether leaving the EU would cost jobs.
"We now recruit many of our best researchers from continental Europe, including younger ones who have obtained EU grants," the academics say. But Commons leader Chris Grayling hit back at the prime minister's jobs claim in an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, saying: "That is simply not true. It is about creating the opportunity for more jobs.
"If the UK leaves the EU and there is a loss of freedom of movement of scientists between the UK and Europe, it will be a disaster for UK science and universities. "European Union regulations cost jobs in this country. They increase costs for business. They make it less desirable to employ people in the UK."
'Less leverage' In a speech on Thursday Mr Grayling - one of five cabinet ministers campaigning for Britain to leave the EU in 23 June's in-out referendum - turned his focus on to Mr Cameron's EU reform deal claiming in could leave Britain in a "worse situation".
However, in a speech in London, Mr Grayling will implicitly criticise the changes to the UK's membership negotiated by David Cameron, saying they will not return powers to the UK, roll back the scope of European law or reduce the degree to which the EU "now governs our lives". In other EU referendum developments on Thursday the editor of the Sun stood by its claim on Wednesday that the Queen backed "Brexit" - a headline which prompted Buckingham Palace to make a formal complaint to regulator Ipsos.
He will challenge the PM's argument that by remaining in the EU the UK can help shape its future direction, particularly in the areas of competiveness and welfare reform, suggesting the UK may emerge from nine months of negotiations over its membership with "less leverage". And Professor Stephen Hawking and 150 fellows of the Royal Society, including three Nobel laureates and the Astronomer Royal, warned in a letter to the Times, that leaving the EU could severely affect research in Britain.
Vote Leave, the cross-party anti-EU campaign group of which Mr Grayling is a member, is publishing research on Thursday suggesting the UK has "seemingly given up" its right to veto any future EU treaty drawn up to cement the process of economic and monetary union across the eurozone.
This, it warns, could see the UK dragged into further political integration despite it being outside the euro and Mr Cameron securing, as part of the negotiations, a legally-binding exemption from the EU's core principle of ever-closer union.
Mr Grayling, who like other ministers has been given the freedom to campaign on the opposing side to the PM, will pick up on this, arguing that the UK risks sacrificing a "key tool" in preventing future integration and could find "itself in a worse situation than we were before".
"One of the inadvertent consequences of the renegotiation discussions is that we have agreed that Britain 'shall not impede the implementation of legal acts directly linked to the functioning of the euro area'. This is a significant - and underappreciated - loss of leverage."