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Remain and Leave clash in final EU referendum debate

Remain and Leave campaigners have clashed at the final major EU referendum debate before polls open on Thursday.

The BBC debate took place in front of 6,000 people at Wembley Arena.

Participants included Boris Johnson for Leave, and his successor as Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, who is backing Remain.

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Leave: 'Thursday can be our independence day'

In the Leave campaign's closing statements, Boris Johnson said Thursday's vote "could be our country's independence day".

They say we can't do it. We say we can. They say we have no choice but to bow down to Brussels. We say they are woefully underestimating this country and what it can do.

If we vote leave we can take back control of our borders; of huge sums of money, £10 billion a year net; of our tax raising powers; of our trade policy and of our whole law making system.

The democracy that is the foundation of our prosperity and if we stand up for democracy we will be speaking up for hundreds of millions of people around Europe who agree with us, but who currently have no voice.

And if we vote leave and take back control, I believe that his Thursday can be our country's independence day.

– Boris Johnson

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