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Jeremy Corbyn turns fire on Conservatives in EU speech

Jeremy Corbyn launched a highly partisan attack on the Government during a speech on the European Union on Saturday.

The Labour leader, who is backing the Remain campaign, said the Conservatives are to blame for Britain's economic difficulties, not the EU.

Earlier David Cameron, also backing the "In" vote, said leaving the EU will cost Britain billions of pounds in infrastructure investment.

Boris Johnson, campaigning for Vote Leave, said Britain can "prosper, thrive and flourish as never before" if it leaves the EU.

Saturday has seen leaders from the four major political parties out in force for the Remain campaign.

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Johnson claims EU seeking superstate 'as Hitler did'

Mr Johnson said the EU was seeking to create a European superstate Credit: PA

Boris Johnson has slammed the EU as trying to build a European superstate similar to that envisaged by Hitler, although he conceded Brussels was using "different methods".

The incendiary comparison by the Leave camp's most high-profile campaigner comes in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

In his interview Mr Johnson said that over the past 2,000 years there have been repeated attempts to impose a single government on Europe.

The former mayor of London said:

Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods.

But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.

There is no single authority that anybody respects or understands. That is causing this massive democratic void.

– Boris Johnson
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