{"id":26034,"date":"2016-06-13T02:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T02:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cameron-warns-of-lost-decade-over-eu-vote\/"},"modified":"2016-06-13T02:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T02:33:43","slug":"cameron-warns-of-lost-decade-over-eu-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cameron-warns-of-lost-decade-over-eu-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron warns of \u2018lost decade\u2019 over EU vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Worries as opinion polls are suggesting momentum is with the \u2018Leave\u2019 camp.}<\/p>\n

Prime Minister David Cameron warned Sunday that Britain faces a \u201clost decade\u201d if it leaves the European Union, as he races to persuade undecided voters less than two weeks before a close referendum.<\/p>\n

With several recent opinion polls suggesting momentum is with the \u201cLeave\u201d camp, Mr Cameron is making a string of television appearances to try to convince people to back \u201cRemain\u201d on June 23.<\/p>\n

A string of global institutions including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and G7 have backed Cameron\u2019s argument that Britain\u2019s economy would be damaged by Brexit.<\/p>\n

But \u201cLeave\u201d supporters argue that Britain could thrive outside the EU, where they say it would be freed of red tape.<\/p>\n

One of the leading pro-Brexit campaigners, UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, said that voters were putting \u201ctwo fingers up\u201d to establishment figures like Cameron.<\/p>\n

The prime minister told the BBC on Sunday that there could be a \u201clost decade for Britain\u201d after a vote to leave the EU as the political system gets gummed up with negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019d be looking at a decade of uncertainty,\u201d he added. \u201cIt would suck the energy out of our government and our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Sunday Times\/YouGov online poll found that Mr Cameron\u2019s \u201cRemain\u201d campaign is lagging the \u201cLeave\u201d side by 42 per cent to 43 per cent.<\/p>\n

UNDECIDED VOTERS<\/p>\n

Eleven percent of people surveyed said they did not know how they would vote, while four percent said they would not take part in the ballot.<\/p>\n

Averaging out the last six opinion polls, both sides are tied on 50 percent, according to academics at the What UK Thinks project. Their figures exclude undecided voters.
\n\u201cNobody knows what these polls are saying,\u201d Cameron told the BBC, while stressing he was optimistic of victory.<\/p>\n

But Farage insisted that they showed a real movement towards his side.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a shift in the last fortnight,\u201d the UKIP leader said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have had enough of being threatened by the prime minister and the chancellor and I think collectively people are beginning to put two fingers up to the political class.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cLeave\u201d camp has repeatedly focused on concerns about immigration from the EU to Britain and the possibility of Turkey joining the bloc.<\/p>\n

Mr Cameron dismissed this as a \u201ccomplete red herring\u201d in Sunday\u2019s BBC interview, insisting: \u201cThere\u2019s no prospect of Turkey joining the EU in decades\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ministers have also denied a story in this week\u2019s Sunday Times that British diplomats had considered letting up to 1.5 million Turkish citizens have visa-free travel to Britain.<\/p>\n

The paper published details of five diplomatic documents which it said could mean a planned deal giving Turkish citizens easier access to the EU\u2019s Schengen area being extended to Britain.<\/p>\n

The EU agreed in March to offer Turkey visa-free access, increased aid and speeded up accession talks in return for Ankara controlling the flood of migrants crossing into Greece.<\/p>\n

\"Britain\u2019s<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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