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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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11.49am BST
11:49
Gove cites three key experts who say there is a real risk of remaining in the EU.
As the Labour peer Stewart Wood points out, this contrasts with the approach he took in the Sky News event on Friday.
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.
11.45am BST
11:45
Johnson denies lying about UK having to pay more to EU if it stays
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.
Johnson says there is a black hole in the EU budgets, which means the UK will have to pay £2.4bn more.
If we remain in the EU, there is no way we can insulate ourselves from further costs.
Johnson's basic comeback to Qs on fact that we're exempt from paying into eurozone bailouts - don't believe Cameron's deal, treaties supreme
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11.42am BST
11:42
Vote Leave Q&A
The panel are now taking questions, from journalists and from workers at the warehouse.
Q: [From a worker] If we leave the EU, will EU migrants working here have to leave?
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.
11.40am BST
11:40
Johnson says the UK gave up its veto over further eurozone integration as part of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation.
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.
He says the Remain campaign have not set out their plan for how Britain can cope with rising immigration.
He says the Leave campaign have a solution: take back control.
It is a delusion to think we can gain greater prosperity by bartering away our freedom and our democracy.
He says around the world no other group of countries are doing what the EU is doing - creating a centralised union.
So the risk of remaining are becoming more and more obvious, he says.
That is why we are winning the arguments today, he says.
11.36am BST
11:36
Johnson says UK cannot have economic success without democratic control
Boris Johnson is speaking now.
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 the Vote Leave campaign are winning all the democratic arguments. Does anyone know the name of their MEP? I rest my case, he says.
He says people can see that it is wrong that 60% of laws going through Westminster originate from Brussels.
He says only 3.6% of European commission officials are British. Britain has been outvoted more than any other country, he says.
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.
11.32am BST
11:32
Michael Gove is speaking now.
He says the EU was formed for idealistic reason. He admires those reasons, he says.
But he says now it is undermining the UK’s security.
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.
He says the EU wants to create a European army.
And he says the EU is undermining Nato.
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.
He says, if anything, it is likely to over-rule parliament more often in the future.
11.26am BST
11:26
Longworth says companies like the EU because it is a source of cheap labour.
He says the single market is a “protectionist customs union”. We are better off out of it, he says.
11.24am BST
11:24
John Longworth, the former director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, is speaking now.
He says the EU works in the interests of Germany. If the UK stays in, Germany will benefit, he says.
Alternatively, the eurozone could explode, he says.
Believe me - you don’t want to be in the room when that bomb goes off.
11.21am BST
11:21
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There is a live feed of the event at the top of the blog.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.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.
11.13am BST
11:13
This is from the Telegraph’s Michael Deacon.
The Brexit campaign is getting serious: not only is Boris Johnson wearing a tie, he's actually knotted it pic.twitter.com/MpY39EDM9d
11.11am BST
11:11
Vote Leave event
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.
11.09am BST
11:09
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.
11.03am BST
11:03
Vote Leave accuses Cameron of campaigning alongside 'losers'
Here are some of the tweets Vote Leave have been posting in response to the Cameron/Harman/Farron/Bennett event.
We passed equal pay, sex discrimination & holiday pay act without any help from the EU. @HarrietHarman is talking Britain down #Voteleave
.@natalieben has repeatedly condemned the EU for lack of democracy and #TTIP #VoteLeave
.@natalieben do you admit that #TTIP poses a threat to the #NHS? Will you support EU when this goes through? pic.twitter.com/ZQQcezpkK6
The more losers the BSE campaign wheel out alongside Cameron the more they look like they are on a sinking ship
10.53am BST
10:53
The event is over. The Reuters feed shows Cameron hurrying off. He is not hanging around to gossip with Harman, Farron or Bennett.
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.
Still, it was a probably effective campaign event. People generally like seeing politicians from different parties cooperating. It makes them look public-spirited.
10.43am BST
10:43
Cameron winds up the event.
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.
10.42am BST
10:42
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?
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 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.
Cameron says he negotiated a reduction in the EU budget for the rest of this decade.
He says the rebate can only be changed by unanimity - ie, if the British prime minister agrees.
He says Vote Leave are “reckless with statistics and wrong on the figures”.
10.38am BST
10:38
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?
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.
The Leave campaign are being reckless.
They are going around the country telling people things that simply are not true, he says.
10.36am BST
10:36
Cameron's Q&A
The speeches are over.
Cameron says they will take some questions.
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?
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.
10.32am BST
10:32
Natalie Bennett, the Green party leader, is speaking now.
She says she wants to focus today on the environmental case for staying in the EU.
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.
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.
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