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EU referendum live: Cameron says Brexit vote would be economic 'bomb' EU referendum live: Cameron says Brexit vote would be economic 'bomb'
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This is from the Telegraph’s Michael Deacon. Gove cites three key experts who say there is a real risk of remaining in the EU.
The Brexit campaign is getting serious: not only is Boris Johnson wearing a tie, he's actually knotted it pic.twitter.com/MpY39EDM9d As the Labour peer Stewart Wood points out, this contrasts with the approach he took in the Sky News event on Friday.
11.11am BST Four days ago Michael Gove said "Britain has had enough of experts". Today his speech was almost solely a list of experts he agrees with.
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Vote Leave event 11:45
The Vote Leave event is just starting. It’s in Stratford-upon-Avon, and the speakers are Boris Johnson, Gisela Stuart, Michael Gove and John Longworth. Johnson denies lying about UK having to pay more to EU if it stays
11.09am BST Q: [From the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg] Aren’t you selling out the truth? You says we will be forced to pay more to the EU. But you know the PM has done deals to stop the UK having to pay for eurzone bailouts.
11:09 Johnson says there is a black hole in the EU budgets, which means the UK will have to pay £2.4bn more.
Here is the 38-page Britain Stronger in Europe dossier (pdf) that David Cameron was talking about earlier. It supposedly describes “four con tricks” Vote Leave are perpetrating. If we remain in the EU, there is no way we can insulate ourselves from further costs.
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Vote Leave accuses Cameron of campaigning alongside 'losers' Vote Leave Q&A
Here are some of the tweets Vote Leave have been posting in response to the Cameron/Harman/Farron/Bennett event. The panel are now taking questions, from journalists and from workers at the warehouse.
We passed equal pay, sex discrimination & holiday pay act without any help from the EU. @HarrietHarman is talking Britain down #Voteleave Q: [From a worker] If we leave the EU, will EU migrants working here have to leave?
.@natalieben has repeatedly condemned the EU for lack of democracy and #TTIP #VoteLeave Stuart says she (a German) is not going anywhere, and EU citizens working here will not have to leave either. She says it is irresponsible to suggest otherwise.
.@natalieben do you admit that #TTIP poses a threat to the #NHS? Will you support EU when this goes through? pic.twitter.com/ZQQcezpkK6 11.40am BST
The more losers the BSE campaign wheel out alongside Cameron the more they look like they are on a sinking ship 11:40
10.53am BST Johnson says the UK gave up its veto over further eurozone integration as part of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation.
10:53 If the UK stays in the EU, there is nothing we can do to protect this country from the biggest social change seen for a century - mass immigration, partly prompted by economic problems in the EU.
The event is over. The Reuters feed shows Cameron hurrying off. He is not hanging around to gossip with Harman, Farron or Bennett. He says the Remain campaign have not set out their plan for how Britain can cope with rising immigration.
It would have looked a bit more genuinely cross-party if Cameron had let Harman, Farron and Bennett answer some of the questions in the Q&A. He says the Leave campaign have a solution: take back control.
Still, it was a probably effective campaign event. People generally like seeing politicians from different parties cooperating. It makes them look public-spirited. It is a delusion to think we can gain greater prosperity by bartering away our freedom and our democracy.
10.43am BST He says around the world no other group of countries are doing what the EU is doing - creating a centralised union.
10:43 So the risk of remaining are becoming more and more obvious, he says.
Cameron winds up the event. That is why we are winning the arguments today, he says.
But Natalie Bennett comes forward. She says all the questions were about party splits. She urges the media to focus on the issues, and not on what is happening to the Tory party or the Labour party. 11.36am BST
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10:42 Johnson says UK cannot have economic success without democratic control
Q: [From ITV’s Robert Peston] Isn’t Boris Johnson right to say what we pay to the EU will go up? The Labour leader isn’t here? Doesn’t that mean Labour is not committed to Remain? Boris Johnson is speaking now.
Cameron says Labour is officially committed to remaining in the EU. He would be happy to share a platform with Jeremy Corbyn, he says. He says they are at a warehouse distributing cleaning products. No one can say they are not running a clean campaign, he jokes.
He says it has been shown “beyond any doubt” that the figure on the Vote Leave bus is misleading. He says even Nigel Farage says it is misleading. He says the Vote Leave campaign are winning all the democratic arguments. Does anyone know the name of their MEP? I rest my case, he says.
Cameron says he negotiated a reduction in the EU budget for the rest of this decade. He says people can see that it is wrong that 60% of laws going through Westminster originate from Brussels.
He says the rebate can only be changed by unanimity - ie, if the British prime minister agrees. He says only 3.6% of European commission officials are British. Britain has been outvoted more than any other country, he says.
He says Vote Leave are “reckless with statistics and wrong on the figures”. He says Remain are arguing that it is worth sacrificing democracy for economic gain. But he says he will argue today that democracy is essential for economic success.
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Q: [From Andy Bell, 5 News] Isn’t the case for Remain being lost in the Tory civil war? And what will you do to end it? Michael Gove is speaking now.
Cameron says he is going to focus on the facts. Today we have seen a broad alliance. People who would not normally be seen together, “be seen dead together on a platform”, all making the case for Remain. He says the EU was formed for idealistic reason. He admires those reasons, he says.
The Leave campaign are being reckless. But he says now it is undermining the UK’s security.
They are going around the country telling people things that simply are not true, he says. He says the Schengen zone helps terrorists move around Europe. That is not just his view, he says. It is the view of Ronald Noble, the former head of Interpol, he says.
10.36am BST He says the EU wants to create a European army.
10:36 And he says the EU is undermining Nato.
Cameron's Q&A He also says we need to free ourselves from “the rogue European court of justice”. It is not like a normal court, overseen by independent judges. It is a court with a political agenda that can overrule parliament, he says.
The speeches are over. He says, if anything, it is likely to over-rule parliament more often in the future.
Cameron says they will take some questions. 11.26am BST
Q: [From Alex Forsyth, BBC] Isn’t the fact you have to line up with Labour and the Lib Dems and the Greens a sign of the disunity in your party? 11:26
Cameron says there is an “extraordinarily broad alliance” in favour of Remain. The four speakers have put a broad range of arguments, he says. People want to know the arguments and the facts. Longworth says companies like the EU because it is a source of cheap labour.
10.32am BST He says the single market is a “protectionist customs union”. We are better off out of it, he says.
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Natalie Bennett, the Green party leader, is speaking now. 11:24
She says she wants to focus today on the environmental case for staying in the EU. John Longworth, the former director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, is speaking now.
The environment doesn’t respect national borders. Birds migrate. Fish cross seas. Rivers merge. Oceans meet. Air pollution drifts. Natural resources are shared. Acid rain pours on everyone – not just the country responsible for the pollution. What one country does to its own environment can profoundly affect its neighbours – and those far beyond it. Some people think of environmental threats as a concern only for the few – but they matter to everyone. Take air pollution as just one example - it kills thousands every year and particularly affects the poorest, the oldest and the least healthy – It is an issue of inequality as much as it is of environmental protection. He says the EU works in the interests of Germany. If the UK stays in, Germany will benefit, he says.
And we know that action on the biggest threats to our environment can’t just be conducted from our own island – it has to be done internationally. And it is. Over the years, European Union membership has helped transform the UK’s natural environment. Alternatively, the eurozone could explode, he says.
Updated Believe me - you don’t want to be in the room when that bomb goes off.
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There is a live feed of the event at the top of the blog.
Gisela Stuart, the Labour MP, is speaking now. She says she is an immigrant. She is a beneficiary of an open system. But it is not right to have a system where politicians do not have control over their borders, she says.