UK business leaders ask workers to vote to stay in EU

Khan, along with Ruth Davidson, leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, and Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, characterized exiting the EU as a gamble that could have grave economic and rights implications.

London Mayor Boris Johnson and UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage with the ex-London mayor appealed to the people to “believe in our country”.

Britain’s most popular newspapers are urging United Kingdom readers to vote to leave the European Union in Thursday’s historic referendum. “We certainly wouldn’t be looking to leave it”.

Polling stations open at 0600 GMT on Thursday June 23 and close at 2100 GMT.

“Mainstream politicians should be able to raise the concern that is shared by so many people and I’m fed up, frankly, with being called a racist by people in the Remain campaign for expressing legitimate concerns about it”.

“If we leave we will diminish our country and our ability to get things done in the world”, he told supporters in Bristol in western England.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that there is no coming back if Britain leaves the European Union and that a Brexit will hurt the British economy and adversely impact opportunities for future generations.

The conservative newspaper urged its readers to vote to leave, arguing that the European Union belongs to the past and by leaving it Britain would be able to decide who should come to work in the country.

“Even those that want Britain to leave say that, in the short term, Brexit would lead to economic uncertainty and would put jobs at risk”.

Johnson then took to a helicopter to crisscross the country.

“For modern Great Britain to thrive and prosper we must work with, not against, our European partners; we must keep our seat at Europe’s top table and help shape its destiny; our strong, clear voice must be heard inside Europe, not be shouted from the sidelines”, the newspaper said. Being in the European Union, there are a lot of regulations that don’t help business. Cutting yourself off solves nothing.

Members of the “Remain” campaign made similar arguments during the almost two-hour live television debate on Tuesday evening, the last of its kind before British citizens will vote in the referendum on Thursday. According to the Telegraph, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan donated £500,000 (about $730,000) to the group “Britain Stronger in Europe” in the period before disclosure was mandated. But for political economist Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University, this moment in British political life is merely the latest expression of domestic political unrest in a host of European countries.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said a British exit would be “an act of self-harm” that would endanger everything Europeans had worked together to achieve. “To turn our back on that is unworthy of our traditions”, the editorial said. Go out and vote “remain”.

Sales of currency since the weekend have surged 74 per cent compared to the same period previous year, as those going overseas rush to get cash and lock in exchange rates ahead of the referendum. Both are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, along with The Sun.

Mr Cameron, who will hit the campaign trail for a final time to squeeze out every last Remain vote with the outcome of the referendum on a knife-edge, said immigration needs to be handled with care because Britain is “arguably the most successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith, opportunity democracy anywhere on earth”.