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Cameron and Farage face public questions on EU referendum

David Cameron and Nigel Farage faced public questions on the EU referendum in a live TV event.

The Prime Minister said leaving the EU amounted to quitting and we are not quitters, he said. Ukip leader Nigel Farage said being British meant not being bullied by anybody.

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Farage dismisses importance of Pharmaceutical industry

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Nigel Farage was asked whether he believed that it was worth risking the pharmaceutical industry worth billions of pounds and thousands of jobs, he said: "I don't buy the fact that a pharmaceutical company is in Britain because it's in the EU.

"I have to say that I'm not wholly happy with the way that much of the pharmaceutical industry has behaved."

He criticised the pharmaceutical industry for putting alternative medicines out of business and lobbying in Brussels.

"Only 12 % of the entire British economy is exports to the EU," he said. "Our biggest industry isn't pharmaceuticals. It's financial services of all kinds."

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