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EU referendum: Sir John Major's anger at Leave campaign 'deceit' EU referendum: Sir John Major's anger at Leave campaign 'deceit'
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Former PM Sir John Major has said he is "angry about the way the British people are being misled" by the campaign to get Britain out of the European Union.Former PM Sir John Major has said he is "angry about the way the British people are being misled" by the campaign to get Britain out of the European Union.
He told Andrew Marr he feared people would vote to leave on the basis of information "known to be incorrect".He told Andrew Marr he feared people would vote to leave on the basis of information "known to be incorrect".
He highlighted claims by Leave figures Boris Johnson and Michael Gove that the UK sent £350m a week to the EU as an example of "deceit".He highlighted claims by Leave figures Boris Johnson and Michael Gove that the UK sent £350m a week to the EU as an example of "deceit".
Mr Johnson stood by the claim and urged an end to "blue-on-blue action".Mr Johnson stood by the claim and urged an end to "blue-on-blue action".
Sir John stopped short of personally attacking fellow Conservatives Mr Johnson and Mr Gove but accused them of running a campaign that was "verging on the squalid". Sir John insisted he was not personally attacking fellow Conservatives Mr Johnson and Mr Gove but he accused them of running a campaign that was "verging on the squalid".
And he described former London mayor Mr Johnson as a "court jester," who he suggested might not have the loyalty of Conservative MPs if he became party leader.
'Hungry python'
In his most outspoken intervention to date in the referendum debate, the former Conservative leader said: "They are misleading people to an extraordinary extent".In his most outspoken intervention to date in the referendum debate, the former Conservative leader said: "They are misleading people to an extraordinary extent".
Mr Johnson told Andrew Marr the £350m figure was a "reasonable" one to use, arguing that although some of it was returned by the EU "this is money we cannot control," adding that it could be spent on the NHS or other "one nation" priorities instead. "They are feeding out to the British people a whole galaxy of inaccurate and frankly untrue information.
"And what they have not done is tell us what would be the position if we were to vote to leave," he told Andrew Marr.
He predicted "chaos" if Britain voted to leave in 23 June's referendum and claimed Britain would lose a "huge amount national income" through trade with Europe, adding: "These promises of expenditure on the National Health Service and elsewhere are frankly fatuous, they are a deceit."
He claimed the NHS would be "about as safe" in the hands of Mr Johnson, Justice Secretary Mr Gove and former Cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith as a "pet hamster would be with a hungry python".
And he suggested Mr Johnson knew Britain's contribution to the EU, after a rebate and money back for farmers, was "about one third" of the £350m claimed on the side of his Vote Leave battle bus.
'Take back control'
Mr Johnson told Andrew Marr the £350m figure was a "reasonable" one to use, arguing that, although some of it was returned by the EU, "this is money we cannot control," adding that it could be spent on the NHS or other "one nation" priorities instead in the event of a Brexit.
He said Vote Leave was setting out "an agenda for the government to take back control" after leaving the EU.
Sir John also attacked Vote Leave's "depressing and awful" arguments on immigration, including the suggestion that millions of Turkish people could "flood" into the UK if Turkey was given the right to join the EU.
"Turkey will not be in the European Union for a very, very long time, if ever, and the Leave campaign know that. That's the point - they know that," he said.
He also dismissed Leave campaign suggestions that the EU was run by a conspiracy of "unelected elites" was "another piece of copper-bottomed Leave nonsense".