Cameron and Farage face public questions on EU referendum

Gisela Stuart MP, from the Leave campaign with Boris Johnson, said that Nigel Farage was measured and focused on what is important in the referendum.

She criticised David Cameron, saying that the Prime Minister couldn't show where he had control, and "didn't even try to defend his deal even when he was challenged."

When asked about the potential for being shut out if we leave, she said that the President of the European Commission stated that Britain would be punished whatever the outcome.

"The notion that there is something like a status quo in the ballot paper is just not there," she said.

David Cameron was right to focus on the economy in the ITV audience grilling, insisted MP Amber Rudd.

Speaking after the event the MP argued that the most important aspect of the UK's EU membership is its access to the single market.

Questioned on whether David Cameron's performance was just a repeat of his general election pledges in his focus on the economy, the Conservative MP replied that what matters to the public is their "everyday lives" which are strongly linked to the economy.

Separating people's everyday lives and the economy would be "misleading", said the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

As he left tonight's ITV show, Nigel Farage expanded on his dismissal of the pharmaceutical industry's importance in the EU.

"We've had a whole host of EU directives making it very difficult for alternative medicines," he said as he called the EU a "club run by giant lobbies."

David Cameron was also asked what he thought Britain would look like in 20 years time, if we choose to leave.

He said "I worry if we leave that we're going to see our economy suffer because we're going to lose access to the absolutely vital market that we have, and I would say the right thing to do, the British thing to do is to fight for a Great Britain inside a European Union, and don't take the Nigel Farage 'little England' option.

"That's not the country we want, it's not the country we want for our children, and I don't think it's right for our country."

The House of Commons Library estimated that up to 55% of Britain's laws are made by the EU and that European judges have rule over ours, an audience member claimed.

Indeed, the Library has produced this estimate - but as one of a range of possible figures, according to fact-checking organisation Full Fact.

It points out that there are many ways of doing this calculation and no definitive answer.

Quoted figures have varied wildly from under 10% to 70%.

It is possible to justify many of these, depending on which definition of 'UK law' you look at, but those at the higher end count EU rules that aren’t really laws in any meaningful sense, Full Fact say.

David Cameron said Britain would reduce its influence by "quitting" the EU.

The prime minister said he wanted Britain to be "the leader" and "the winners" in Europe and the world but Brexit was not the answer.

"We don't enhance our influence by walking away or quitting, we reduce our influence," he said.

"I honestly believe walking away, quitting, would reduce our national influence, would reduce our economy, would reduce our say in the world and as a result would damage our country."

An audience member was sceptical about Cameron's deal with the EU and ability to reform the EU.

"Our membership is right for Britain," the Prime Minister said. "It helps us work with other countries to get what we want."

"We need to be in this organisation, fighting for British interests and for British jobs. I don't think we're quitters."

He added that Britain has a unique status in that there is a proposal to ensure that migrants coming to Britain need to work here for four years before gaining access to the welfare state.