Baroness Warsi quits Leave camp over ‘lies and xenophobia’

She told the Times: “That poster was for me the “breaking point” – to say, “I can’t go on like this”.

“This kind of nudge-nudge, wink-wink xenophobic racist campaign may be politically savvy or useful in the short term but it causes long-term damage to communities”, she told the BBC. “For me that’s a step too far”.

The Leave-supporting former director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce, John Longworth, told Today that Britain could boost its GDP growth by 1.1% simply by ending contributions to EU budgets and saving 10% of the cost of European regulation.

“I look at that group of people and I think they’re not the kind of people I’d get on a night bus with”, Baroness Warsi added.

She says: “Unfortunately what we are seeing as a vision for Britain are lies and xenophobic campaigning”.

Baroness Warsi, a mostly from the sidelines LEAVE campaigner has now apparently abandoned the cause for FREEDOM for Britain from an emerging european super state because of that naughty Nigel Farage’s poster of last week that highlighted the migration crisis that Europe faces.

The poster sparked outrage across the political spectrum.

“When you challenge the establishment in this country, they come after you, they call you all sorts of things”, he said.

Warsi saw the poster as an example of the far right beliefs of the people running the Leave camp, and realised that she no longer wanted to be associated with them or their ideas. “To try to suggest that this is anyway imminent, or to suggest that visa-free travel isn’t just for Schengen countries, well these are just lies”.

Senior Leave supporter and Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan questioned whether the Tory peer had been part of the Brexit campaign, saying: ” When I invited Sayeeda Warsi to join the Leave campaign, she declined.

The biggest such potential manchurian candidate is Boris Johnson himself, who I voiced could be a potential manchurian candidate when he first announced he would be campaigning for LEAVE in Mid February, and who really could deliver a fatal blow to LEAVE, of course I am very much hoping that I am wrong!

A Vote Leave spokesperson played down her involvement.

She is the second high-profile Conservative to swap sides, following Sarah Wollaston’s defection earlier in the month.

Warsi referred to the poster showing migrants and refugees queuing on the Slovenian border as her main reason for abandoning the Leave campaign.

Warsi’s defection comes as the Remain campaign is regaining momentum in the opinion polls.