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EU referendum live: Cameron says Leave campaign are 'reckless' EU referendum live: Cameron says Leave campaign are 'reckless'
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1.40pm BST
13:40
Q: If an EU army is formed, will our army and nuclear weapons be included?
Farage says if he could prove that, he would win the referendum easily. But he says that two years ago when he debated Nick Clegg, Clegg says Farage was a fantasist because he warned about this. But now it is happening. They are due to discuss it after the referendum. Jean-Claude Juncker has said he wants one.
Q: But the UK could veto it.
No, says Farage. Under enhanced cooperation rules the UK could not veto this.
1.37pm BST
13:37
Farage says, even if we went back to having to pay tariffs to trade with the EU, those tariffs would be so low that the savings from not having to contribute to the EU’s budget would compensate.
1.36pm BST
13:36
Farage says he is bored with hearing people say the EU needs to be reformed. The constitutional convention was supposed to achieve this. One of the debates was about whether it should be democratised. But that option was utterly rejected, he says.
1.34pm BST
13:34
Q: [From a Cornish fisherman] Would we get back control of our water?
Yes, says Farage. He says he attended a meeting recently with Norwegian fishermen. Their fishing waters extend for 200 miles, and their fishing industry is booming, he says.
He says he is a fisherman himself. But if he catches a sea bass, he is not allowed to take it home under EU laws, he says.
1.31pm BST
13:31
Q: If we bring in visas for EU citizens, they will retaliate, won’t they? For a family of four, going to Spain could cost £150.
Farage says he does not seen any need for visas for travel or holidays. But he does see the need for work permits.
He says the British spend a lot of money in Spain and France. They were not going to want to put a barrier in the way of Britons coming, he says.
Q: Would there be a border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic?
No, says Farage. He says the Republic was sensible enough not to join the Schengen area.
Q: So how would you stop EU citizens coming to Ireland, and then travelling to Northern Ireland?
Farage says that is something you would have to keep an eye on.
1.27pm BST
13:27
Q: Will Britain have a veto on Turkey joining the EU?
Farage says Cameron has said he wants Turkey to join the EU. He has got a veto. But it is not one he would ever use.
1.25pm BST
13:25
Q: [From a woman living in France] What compensation will people like us get if we lose our pensions and free health care if the UK leaves the EU?
Farage says the caller has been influenced by a scare campaign. He says the UK government pays the woman’s pension, so that will not be affected. And she will still get health care provided the UK continues to pay, as it does now. That will not change.
1.23pm BST
13:23
Nigel Farage on World at One's Referendum Call
Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, is on the the World at One’s referendum call now.
He says even if the EU does not offer the UK a trade deal, the UK would still be better off out.
Q: But all the experts say we would be better off in.
Farage says there is something called groupthink out there. Organisations that are similar often think the same. They said we should join the euro, and that would have been a mistake. We should ignore them now.
1.20pm BST
13:20
Martin Lewis, who founded the MoneySavingExpert.com website, has just been on the World at One. He said that he personally was backing Remain because he is risk averse, and he thinks Brexit is the riskier option. But other people will take a different approach to risk and may want to vote differently, he said.
He said there were more shades of grey here than on EL James’s bookshelf.
This morning David Cameron tweeted a link to an article by Lewis explaining his position.
Not sure which way to vote in the EU referendum? Read this from finance expert @MartinSLewis on why he's voting IN: https://t.co/rQof2uI88g
Here is an extract from Lewis’s blog.
I’m generally risk-averse, and that pushes me just towards an IN vote for safety, maybe 55% to 45%. Yet just as my dream holiday isn’t necessarily yours, no more is my choice of what’s right a call for you to follow me.
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13:0213:02
Osborne says Brexit would lead to border controls coming back in Northern IrelandOsborne says Brexit would lead to border controls coming back in Northern Ireland
George Osborne, the chancellor, has been in Northern Ireland today campaign for Britain to remain in the EU. He went to Warrenpoint Port in Co Down, which is a stone’s throw from the Irish Republic, to warn about the implications of Brexit. Pointing to the Carlingford Lough waterway which separates the two countries, he said:George Osborne, the chancellor, has been in Northern Ireland today campaign for Britain to remain in the EU. He went to Warrenpoint Port in Co Down, which is a stone’s throw from the Irish Republic, to warn about the implications of Brexit. Pointing to the Carlingford Lough waterway which separates the two countries, he said:
Let’s be clear, if we quit the EU then this is going to be the border with the European Union.Let’s be clear, if we quit the EU then this is going to be the border with the European Union.
And all the things that those that want to quit the EU claim would happen - ie new immigration checkpoints, border controls and an end to free movement - that has a real consequence, and there would have to be a real hardening of the border imposed either by the British government or indeed by the Irish government ...And all the things that those that want to quit the EU claim would happen - ie new immigration checkpoints, border controls and an end to free movement - that has a real consequence, and there would have to be a real hardening of the border imposed either by the British government or indeed by the Irish government ...
I was just talking to a guy who drives a truck - he remembers when it used to take two hours to get across the border and, as a result, business wouldn’t come here, jobs wouldn’t come here, people would trade directly with the Republic.I was just talking to a guy who drives a truck - he remembers when it used to take two hours to get across the border and, as a result, business wouldn’t come here, jobs wouldn’t come here, people would trade directly with the Republic.
Leave campaigners in Northern Ireland, who include the Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, reject claims that Brexit would lead to border controls being re-imposed between Northern Ireland and the Republic.Leave campaigners in Northern Ireland, who include the Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, reject claims that Brexit would lead to border controls being re-imposed between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
12.43pm BST
12:43
Here’s a Guardian video about trying to get young people in Tower Hamlets to take an interest in the EU referendum.
12.41pm BST
12:41
Cabinet cancelled this week, No 10 says
Rowena Mason
Downing Street has confirmed there will be no cabinet tomorrow and cannot say whether there will be one next week. No reason has been given, but it may be a sign that relations have degenerated too badly for senior Conservatives to sit round the same table. Or Cameron may just feel that he and other cabinet ministers cannot save the time now the polls appear to be so tight in the EU referendum.
12.23pm BST
12:23
Vine plays Cameron a clip of a woman saying she wants to partly come out of the EU, but to stay in bits of it.
Cameron says he has some sympathy for her. He says Britain has a special status now, in the EU, but not in the euro or the Schengen area, he says.
And that’s it. The Vine interview is over.
12.21pm BST
12:21
Q: Staying in the EU won’t help us control immigration.
Cameron says leaving the EU would wreck the economy.
What the Leave campaign are saying about immigration is wrong, reckless and misleading.
Q: Staying in will not allow us to control immigration.
Cameron says the new benefit rules will help.
But what Leave are saying is wrong. They say Turkey is joining the EU. No serious person thinks Turkey will join the EU for decades.
Q: What about the 1m refugees in Germany. When they get travel rights, they will be able to come to the UK.
Cameron says when they get travel rights, they won’t be able to come to the UK. History suggests only about 1 or 2% will get German citizenship.
12.18pm BST
12:18
Q: Anna Soubry, the trade minister, said exports to the continent would fall to almost zero if we left the EU.
Cameron says it would all depend what trade deal we had with the EU.
If we went to a World Trade Organisation arrangements, then cars being sold to the EU would face 10 tariffs.
Q: You keep suggesting we would slide into oblivion if we left. But what did you say in the election; Britain was a country willing to take a punt, take a risk.
Cameron accepts Britain could manage outside the UK.
But he says the “British way” is to make organisations like the EU work for us, he says.
12.15pm BST
12:15
Cameron rejects claims Remain camp are 'scaremongering'
Cameron says he does not accept his side is scaremongering.
Instead, there is a “legitimate raising of risks”, he says.
12.14pm BST
12:14
Cameron criticises Gove for dismissing the views of experts
Cameron says organisations like the IMF and OECD are actually paid to warn governments of economic risks.
He says someone from Leave said the other day it was wrong to trust experts. (He is talking about Michael Gove.) But you would not build a bridge without listening to experts, he says.
Q: Experts built the Titanic.
That’s right, says Cameron. But he says on this there is a consensus amongst experts.
12.09pm BST
12:09
Cameron on Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show
David Cameron is now being interview by Jeremy Vine on Radio 2.
Q: Do you agree with what Sir John Major said about Boris Johnson?
Cameron says that Major spoke for himself. Cameron says he has taken a self-denying ordinance (not to criticise fellow Tories, he implies.)
11.58am BST
11:58
Q: Leave has taken the lead in polls, and the pound has crashed in value. Doesn’t that show that Cameron is right to say Leave is a threat to the economy.
Johnson says the value of the pound depends on the strength of the economy, and the economy will be stronger outside the EU. In the short term it can go where it wants. In the long term Britain will prosper, he says.
And that’s it. The Vote Leave event is over.
11.55am BST
11:55
Q: [From my colleague Anushka Asthana] Cameron says your policies would be like putting a bomb under the economy. Are you worried by the language being used. And what would be the impact on the economy of cutting immigration.
On the first point, Gove says they all believe in free speech. People can say what they like.
On the second point, Johnson says the key thing is to have an immigration system that is controlled. But people who are talented should still be able to come to the UK, he says.
At the moment politicians cannot keep the promises they make on immigration.
Stuart says the current system discriminates against workers from outside the EU.
Longworth says we have the worst of both words. Unlimited immigration from the EU drives down wages, drives down skills and drives down productivity, he says. It means employers have no incentive to train workers. So the economy needs more skilled workers from abroad. But it is harder to get them from outside the EU, he says.