Cameron and Khan team up to launch Remain “guarantee card”

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Prime Minister David Cameron and London mayor Sadiq Khan will today unveil a new list of five guarantees offered by a vote to Remain in the EU.

Volunteers will distribute the list as a “guarantee card” as the EU referendum campaign reaches its final weeks.

The guarantee card reads:

“Vote Remain on June 23rd, and we guarantee:

  • Full access to the EU’s single market: supporting 3 million jobs, lower prices for families and a strong economy to fund the NHS.

  • Workers’ rights protected: paid leave, parental rights, holidays and anti-discrimination laws.

  • Keeping the European Arrest Warrant: fighting crime and terrorism, bringing criminals to justice.

  • A special status in Europe: never joining the euro while keeping control of our borders, and new rules so EU nationals only have access to welfare once they’ve paid in.

  • Stability for our country: protecting living standards and avoiding potential recession”.

Speaking at the launch, David Cameron is expected to say: “These guarantees – from safeguarding our economy to protecting our security – show the positive case for remaining inside the EU. Whenever Leave campaigners are asked what Britain will look like outside of the EU, all they can say is: 'we just don’t know'.”

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Khan will also say: “The UK and London will be stronger, fairer and more prosperous if we remain in Europe, with access to the single market and guaranteed protections to workers’ rights. Throwing these advantages away would be a betrayal of our British values and our history.”

Vote Leave have hit back by issuing their own list of “guarantees” generated by a remain vote.

These are:

  • The UK will continue to send £350 million to Brussels every week.

  • Free movement of people will continue permanently. This will get worse when Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey join the EU.

  • EU regulation will continue to cost British companies over £600 million each week.

  • We will continue to be unable to remove criminals and terrorists whose presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good.

  • We will have to pay out up to £43 billion in tax refunds to multinational businesses.

Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott said: “If people vote to stay, they are voting for the free movement of people from Europe to the UK, permanently. This will get worse when Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey join the EU. British business will continue to be strangled by EU regulation and we will continue to send £50 million each week to Brussels.”