David Cameron has accused Boris Johnson of "literally making it up" when it comes to Brexit, referring to the Leave campaign's inability to say what an exit would look like. Commenting specifically on Johnson's claims that Britain could do a similar trade deal to the one Canada had he said:
In an interview with BBC Radio Four, Lord O'Donnell, Britain's most senior civil servant from 2005 - 2011, said that the Cabinet Office had determined that an exit from the EU could take "up to a decade" rather than the two years allowed under the Lisbon Treaty.
In an article published this week InFacts explains why leaving the EU will not protect the UK and would actually make the security situation worse.
Brexit will harm the UK economy "the prospect of leaving (the EU) is the biggest domestic risk to financial stability because,...
In a report published yesterday on behalf of the National Farmers Union the agricultural research institute LEI Wageningen found that under any possible trade deal British farmers would be worse off and prices for shoppers would rise. The report looked at a free trade arrangement with the EU, like the one with Canada widely proposed by "Leave" campaigners, one governed by World Trade Organisation rules and a third variant with lower tarrifs. The report showed that prices would rise by between 5% and 8% under the first two agreements. Under the third, prices would fall but farming would be unprofitable causing farmers to go out of business and production to collapse.
Five of Britain's top leaders in the services sector have written an article for the Telegraph supporting Remain. They write: