Make tomorrow Britain’s independence day – Boris

BORIS Johnson last night implored Britain to break free of the ‘jobdestroying’ EU by making tomorrow ‘Independence Day’.

To loud cheers at the end of the final televised referendum debate, he urged voters to reject David Cameron’s fear tactics and vote for ‘hope’.

He said: ‘There is a very clear choice between those who speak of nothing but fear about the consequences of leaving the EU, and those on our side who speak of hope.

‘They say we cannot do it. We say we can. They say we have no choice but to bend down to Brussels. We say they are woefully underestimating this country and what we can achieve. If we vote to leave and take back con- trol, I believe this Thursday could be our country’s independence day.’

A string of jibes were hurled at the Leave camp for supposedly presiding over ‘Project Hate’. But, to cheers from the 6,000-strong Wembley Arena crowd, Mr Johnson insisted it was the Remain camp that was responsible for Project Fear, with claims the UK would not be able to strike a trade deal if it left the EU. He said the UK buys so many products from Europe that the countries that sell them would be ‘insane’ to erect trade barriers.

The question of whether Turkey was on an ‘accelerated’ path to join the EU was also the subject of angry clashes between the two sides.

And after being criticised by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan on immigration, Mr Johnson insisted it was vital to bring numbers under control with an Australian- style points system. Mrs Leadsom was also cheered for pointing out the lack of democracy in Brussels.

Michael Gove has compared economic experts warning about the dangers of Brexit to Nazis who rubbished Albert Einstein’s scientific findings in the 1930s. He told LBC Radio: ‘We have to be careful about historical comparisons, but… they got 100 German scientists in the pay of the government to say that he was wrong.’