Cameron Joins Gordon Brown Making Final Appeal to Avert Brexit
- Premier tells cross-party Remain rally to ‘put jobs first’
- U.K. public split evenly on eve of EU referendum, polls show
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron listens to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaking at Birmingham University on June 22, 2016.
Photographer: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesU.K. Prime Minister David Cameron joined his predecessor Gordon Brown in a final, cross-party appeal to voters to reject a so-called Brexit when they cast ballots Thursday in a referendum on the country’s EU membership.
Cameron urged undecided voters to “put jobs first, put the economy first, put your children’s future first, put our future first as a country,” as he addressed a rally at the University of Birmingham on Wednesday evening. He was joined there by politicians from other parties -- Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron and the country’s sole Green member of Parliament, Caroline Lucas -- as well as representatives of business, trade unions and the medical profession.