UK’s Cameron says leaving EU would be ‘economic self-harm’

Mr Cameron faced a fiery audience during the live event, broadcast on Sky News, an on several occasions was confronted by obvious scepticism of some of the Remain campaign’s warnings over the consequences of Brexit. He suggested that it depended on when economic growth picked up in continental Europe.

He added: “Can we be so confident that we have solved all of Europe’s problems and all of Europe’s tensions?” It can be immensely frustrating.

The EU “has been a way of getting countries that used to fight each other to talk to each other”, he added.

“But do I sit there and think Britain would be better off if we left?”

Mr. Cameron took questions from a studio audience, with many grilling the Prime Minister on the tone of the referendum campaign, rising immigration, jobs and soaring house prices.

“We’ll be better off as a country with more jobs, I think we’ll keep our country moving forward, I think we’ll be stronger as a country, we’ll get things done in the world”, he said.

The PM sought to convince us that the figures had some years earlier been broadly in balance and it continued to be the “right ambition for Britain” to maintain the five-figure target. Yes, but I am a prime minister who sits round the table with 27 other heads of government and state and sometimes this organisation drives me insane. “Are we quitters?. Absolutely not”.

Speaking on Sky News’s Europe In or Out broadcast, Mr Cameron said he stuck by his “ambition” of bringing net migration into the United Kingdom – which last month hit 333,000 – below 100,000.

“Frankly, I think the job of the Prime Minister is to warn about potential dangers as well as to talk. about the upsides and the opportunities there are by being a member of this organisation”. That can not be the right way of controlling immigration.

Mr. Cameron stuck mainly to economic themes in answering nearly every question, suggesting that leaving the European Union would damage the country’s economy, raise prices and result in job losses. He said: “Obviously there’s some big issues of the day, in terms of the big debates going on, but the Prime Minister was actually very interested in the site”. How can you reassure us of staying in the European Union and saying there are no risks, when there are clear risks?

Speaking this morning, Mr Gove said: “I’m quite nervous. because I’ve never done anything like this before but the main thing is I have been chosen to make sure that people have a chance to hear the Vote Leave message, so the main thing that I want do is to try to get across the essence of our case. Cameron blew his credibility when he claimed that Britain becoming a normal democracy would spark World War Three – tonight showed the public doesn’t trust Cameron”.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutchman who heads the group of euro-area finance ministers, told an audience of business leaders in Brussels that Britain faces “much, much greater” economic risks than the rest of the European Union if it leaves the bloc.

He said: “It’s really great the Prime Minister came here today because it’s such a stunning site”. “That will be a decision made by the party and by the country when the country votes”.

He added: “I thought it was pretty hard tonight I’m afraid, not one of his greatest performances”.