AFP, LONDON: Former British prime minister John Major attacked fellow Conservatives on Sunday for running a “deceitful” campaign for a Brexit, raising the heat in an increasingly tight race for the June 23 referendum.
Major condemned the Vote Leave campaign, led by former Tory mayor of London Boris Johnson, of making “fundamentally dishonest” claims about the economic benefits of leaving the European Union.
He said their focus on ending the migration of hundreds of thousands of EU citizens to Britain under the bloc’s freedom of movement rules was “verging on the squalid”.
Major’s angry intervention escalates the war of words within Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party over the vote, which could see Britain become the first country to leave the 28-nation bloc.