Cameron warns of ‘humiliation’ after leaving EU
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of abject "humiliation" for Britain if the country decides to leave the European Union (EU) in a referendum later this week.
The premier made the claim in an article in the Sunday Telegraph, only four days ahead of the June 23 EU vote.
"If you're not sure, don't take the risk of leaving. If you don't know, don't go," Cameron pleaded, further cautioning that the "existential choice" to leave the bloc would be irreversible.
"It would be a one-off and permanent diminution in our standing in the world; an abject and self-imposed humiliation for a proud and important country like ours," he noted.
Cameron’s comments reheated the Brexit debate on both sides after a three-day break to mourn Labour MP Jo Cox who was killed in an attack on Thursday.
Cox, a 41-year-old mother-of-two who was also an outspoken "Remain" campaigner, was stabbed and shot in the northern English village of Birstall, near Leeds.
In his article, Cameron also hailed Cox’s campaigning efforts to keep the country in the EU, saying she “embodied Britain at her best.”
Two opinion polls in the wake of Cox’s death have hinted at a boost to the “Remain” campaign, despite the Leave’s lead in recent weeks.
According to the YouGov poll for the Sunday Times newspaper, anti-Brexit support had gained a narrow 44-43 percent lead over the "Leave" campaign, while the Daily Mail reported a 3-point lead for the "Remain" campaign.
On the spectrum, Britons who favor withdrawal believe that outside the bloc, the UK would be better off conducting its own trade negotiations, better able to control immigration and free from what they call the excessive EU regulations and bureaucracy.
Boris Johnson, the former London and a lead campaigner for the Brexit, says the upcoming vote is a great chance for Britain “to take back control of all sorts of aspects of our lives including, for instance, immigration policy, which, as you know, at the moment is very heavily skewed towards the European Union, it's very biased."
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