London - Arab Today
The UK Prime Minister David Cameron will plead for Britain Monday to stay in the EU and help prevent the Continent being ripped apart by another conflict, warning that peace in Europe could be at risk if Britain votes to leave the EU.
Cameron will highlight the UK’s role in bringing peace to Europe as he hits the referendum campaign trail.
Both the Prime Minister and his Brexit-backing Tory rival Boris Johnson make speeches this morning in the countdown to the June 23 vote.
Cameron will refer to Britain’s role in "pivotal moments in European history: Blenheim, Trafalgar, Waterloo, our country’s heroism in the Great War and, most of all, our lone stand in 1940".
He will recall how Winston Churchill "argued passionately for Western Europe to come together, to promote free trade and build institutions which would endure so our continent would never again see such bloodshed".
Cameron believes UK leadership as an EU member is necessary to help avoid future conflict in Europe and he will ask: "Can we be so sure peace and stability on our continent are assured beyond any shadow of doubt?" It comes as ex-Chief of the Defence Staff, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, and three other war veterans made a video plea to pensioners to vote In.
Lord Bramall said of Brexit: "We would be going backwards in what we set out to cure after the terrible tragedies of the Second World War".
A YouGov poll for Good Morning Britain found 42% of voters back In and 40% Out.
Source: QNA