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Live updates: Final day of campaigning before EU vote

With one day to go before a historic vote on Britain's future inside the EU, rival campaigners have been criss-crossing the country in a final push for votes.

Latest developments:

  • David Cameron vowed to stay on as prime minister upon Brexit
  • Boris Johnson said the UK was on the verge of something "extraordinary"
  • Michael Gove told ITV News he was sorry for comparing pro-EU experts to Nazis
  • Ex-PM Sir John Major called Leave campaigners the "grave diggers of our prosperity"
  • Nigel Farage said Ukip had changed politics as he predicted a win for the leave campaign
  • Over 1,000 business leaders said a vote to leave would mean fewer jobs
  • The Italian prime minister urged British voters not to make the "wrong choice" to leave
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PM: 'Leaving EU to take back control is an illusion'

David Cameron at a Birmingham rally to Remain ahead of the EU referendum.

The Prime Minister has slammed claims that leaving the EU would take back control for the UK as an "illusion".

On the last day of his Remain campaign at a rally in Birmingham, he said that leaving the European would not mean "taking control" but "losing control".

The idea that you take back control by leaving is an illusion.

The European Union would not stop existing. The French and the Germans and Italians would still be sitting there making decisions about our lives and our continent. They'd be setting the rules they'd be deciding the strategy, making a decision about our future but without us sat in the room.

That is not taking control, that is losing control.

– David Cameron
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