Former prime minister John Major commented on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show that leading members of Vote Leave, including Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Iain Duncan Smith have been running a deceitful, untrue, depressing, awful and “verging on the squalid” campaign to leave the EU. Major went on to claim that Gove wanted to privatise the NHS, Johnson wished to charge people for health services and Duncan Smith advocated moving to a social insurance system, adding: “The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python.”

Financial Times: Major accuses Leave campaign of deceit and attacks ‘jester’ Johnson

The Times: Court Jester Johnson is leading the squalid campaign, blasts Major

The Guardian: Major: NHS is as safe with Brexit Tories as hamster with python

The leaders of the UK’s six biggest trade unions have warned that a Brexit may result in a limiting of workers’ rights, specifically in terms of parenting, holidays and equality. The general secretaries of Unite, Unison, the GMB and Usdaw are among 10 trade union leaders warning against a vote to leave in a letter to The Guardian in which they argued that the social and cultural benefits of remaining in the EU far outweigh any advantages of leaving.

The Guardian: Unions warn of Brexit threat to working rights

BBC News: EU referendum: Trade unions divided on Brexit vote

 

In an opinion editorial for The Times, Sir Roger Carr argues that leaving the EU would “dislocate the momentum of our steady recovery and threaten exports today and productivity tomorrow”, adding that “by staying in an improved Europe, we will be stronger together. By doing so, the prospects for all will be better for ever.” He concludes by stating that: “by staying in an improved Europe, we will be stronger together. By doing so, the prospects for all will be better for ever. There is no credible alternative.”

The Times: EU referendum debate tests families, friends and notions of ourselves

 

David Cameron is expected to criticise the Leave campaign today as he makes a speech alongside leaders from the Green party and the Lib Dems as well as Labour’s Harriet Harman. The figures are expected to issue a joint statement, arguing that Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are “perpetuating an economic con trick on the British people.”

The Daily Telegraph: Cameron joins Left in attack on Boris

The Daily Mail: Dave joins Harman to trash Johnson and Co's 'con tricks': Cameron risks inflaming Tory civil war by sharing Remain platform with three enemies of the party

City Am: Cameron to accuse Brexiteers of playing "reckless" and "undemocratic" "con tricks"

 

British firms’ orderbooks have fallen off the back of concerns about a potential Brexit. The orders have fallen to their lowest level for almost three years. Peter Hemington, a partner at BDO, has said: “Private sector capital investment has been sluggish throughout this recovery, and recent official figures show sharp falls – no doubt related to Brexit fears. This fall has no doubt contributed to UK businesses’ expectation that economic growth will fall behind its long term trend for the first time in nearly three years.”

The Guardian: EU referendum fears weighing on company orders and investment

 

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, is expected to be pushing ahead with its contingency plans in the coming weeks by launching special funding operations on Tuesday 14 June to ensure that the UK’s commercial banks have the cash needed to cope with any turmoil caused by a vote to leave the EU.

The Guardian: Carney leads Bank’s planning to prevent financial carnage if Brexit carries the day

The Guardian: Pound slides after polls show Brexit campaign gaining ground - business live

BBC News: Pound falls as polls point to rising support for Brexit

 

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove say quitting Europe would save the NHS because we’d get fewer migrants and stop sending money to Brussels. However, InFacts’ writes that “the opposite is true. If we left, we’d lose full access to Europe’s market. That’s responsible for half our trade. We’d suffer such an economic shock that we’d have less money to spend, not more.” They add that “Boris and Gove also don’t tell you that EU migrants support the NHS. They pay more in taxes than they use public services – partly because they are younger than Brits. What’s more, one in 10 doctors is an EU migrant.”

InFacts.org: Leaving EU will hurt not save NHS

 

Editorial in the Financial Times: Business has to speak up on the dangers of Brexit

The Times: No 10 blocked poster attacking Boris

The Times: Brexit camp warns of 80m population

Sir Alan Duncan in The Times Red Box: Public won’t forgive Brexiteers using campaign as surrogate leadership bid

Editorial in The Guardian: Europe needs to hear British scepticism – from the inside

Matthew d'Ancona in The Guardian: If Cameron wins, he must be ruthless with his Tory foes

The Guardian: Staying in EU will mean more sex attacks, Farage suggests

Felicity Lawrence in The Guardian: What the EU has done for…

Boris Johnson in The Telegraph: You must vote to leave, or wake up with the worst hangover in history

The Telegraph: Telegraph readers back Brexit and Johnson as next Tory leader

The Telegraph: Boris - Britain will gets £2.4bn bill towards EU’s black hole’