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Live updates: EU referendum

Divisions within the Tory party threaten to deepen further today with David Cameron accusing members of his own Cabinet of conning the British public during the EU referendum campaign.

The prime minister told ITV News that Boris Johnson's Brexit argument was "reckless, misleading and wrong".

But the former mayor of London said the Remain camp were "sacrificing democracy for economic gain".

With just 17 days to go until Britain heads to the polls, follow ITV News for the latest updates from the campaign trail.

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PM joins cross-party EU appeal in battle for hearts

David Cameron offered a stark warning about the economic risks of leaving the EU as he joined Labour's Harriet Harman and figures from the Liberal Democrats and Greens in a cross-party appeal to voters.

The Prime Minister said that leaving the bloc would be putting a "bomb" under the economy in which Britons had lit the fuse themselves, reports ITV News political editor Robert Peston.

Ms Harman faced questions over why the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had not made an appearance at the event, but argued that the party was also running it's own pro-EU campaign.

Meanwhile Boris Johnson was campaigning for Vote Leave at a soap business as he tried to show they were nothing grubby about their campaign.

However, with both sides poles apart on the potential impact of a Brexit, the vote is increasingly playing into voter's sense of identity and who they want to be.

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