David Cameron "wouldn't last 30 seconds" if voters were to back a Brexit in the EU referendum, according to a former British Cabinet minister.
Kenneth Clarke, who served under Margaret Thatcher, John Major and David Cameron, claims the Prime Minister couldn't possibly stay in charge of the country having campaigned for the UK to remain in the European Union.
Speaking to the Week in Westminster show on BBC Radio 4, Clarke said that “the prime minister wouldn’t last 30 seconds if he lost the referendum and we’d be plunged into a Conservative leadership crisis which is never a very edifying sight."
He added that "the idea that David carries on saying: ‘Well despite what I’ve been saying in the last few weeks, I’m now going to lead a government which is going to leave the European Union, and I’m going to sit down with you all and find out what it is you want to negotiate that will determine new arrangements for ourselves and our businesses and for our investors that secure a new base for us in the globalised economy,’ I mean it’s just farcical."
Yesterday, the British Chancellor George Osborne said that leaving the EU could result in mortgage rates rising and instability in financial markets.
But Boris Johnson from 'Vote Leave' says it's time for people to believe in themselves and hold their nerve, stating that that opponents were scaremongering and that "they're very often the same people who said it would be an economic disaster if we didn't join the euro".
Speaking at a Brexit rally on Friday, Johnson also encouraged those assembled to interrupt a broadcast from Channel 4's Michael Crick.
This is the moment @BorisJohnson MP urges the crowd to interrupt @MichaelLCrick's live report from a #Brexit rallyhttps://t.co/JooHlMQ46v
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) 15 April 2016
Johnson stated that the campaign to stay in the EU was "depressing", as "there is not a shred of idealism [in it]. Not a single one of them will stand up and admit that it is political. No one will say: ‘You know what, I love the idea of a federal Europe’, because that is the true logic of their position."
Via The Guardian
