Former UK PM John Major attacks Vote Leave 'deceit'
Former British Prime Minister John Major has slammed the "squalid" and "deceitful" campaign to get the UK out of the European Union (EU).
Major, a Conservative Party politician who was the prime minister from 1990 to 1997, told BBC on Sunday he was "angry about the way the British people are being misled."
He accused the Leave campaign of spreading "inaccurate information” to influence people to vote against remaining in the 28-nation bloc.
He described Vote Leave's arguments on immigration as "depressing and awful."
Major also condemned certain politicians’ suggestion that 88 million people from Turkey could "flood" into Britain if the Islamic nation was allowed 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.
Britain will vote on June 23 on the significant issue of whether it should stay in the EU. The decision has far-reaching consequences for both the country and the bloc.
Membership of the European Union has been a controversial issue in the UK since the country joined the then European Economic Community in 1973.
Those in favor of a British withdrawal from the EU argue that outside the bloc, London would be better positioned to conduct its own trade negotiations, better able to control immigration and free from what they believe to be excessive EU regulations and bureaucracy.
Those in favor of remaining in the bloc argue that leaving it would risk the UK's prosperity, diminish its influence over world affairs, and result in trade barriers between the UK and the EU.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently said that there were no economic benefits for the UK to leave the EU, while the Bank of England has warned that the country’s economy would slow sharply, and possibly even enter a short recession.
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