French finance minister Emmanuel Macron has said that France could end UK border controls in Calais and allow migrants to cross the Channel if the UK leaves the EU. Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin said that propaganda was being produced by other European governments at the request of our Prime Minister ‘to try to scare people away from voting to leave’. He told BBC Radio 4 that the French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve had previously rejected claims by Mr Cameron that the border agreement with France would end if Britain voted to quit the EU. Mr Jenkin added, ‘We pay a great deal of money into the EU and it subsidises a great deal of French farming. They don't want us to leave the EU. But this is a choice for the British people not for the French government, and we're being asked to believe all sorts of ludicrous things.’
Referendum - stories of border controls
Written by David Fletcher 04 Mar 2016Additional Info
- Pray: for lies, half-truths and scaremongering to be seen for what it is by the British people. (Ps.33:10,11)
- More: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35712463