LONDON // With 48 hours of campaigning left, British prime minister David Cameron tried to capitalise on a slight upswing in the “remain” and accused the “Leavers” of lying to the British public about immigration, the cost of EU membership and the European army.
“It would be a tragedy if we damaged our economy and wrecked job prospects in our country on the basis of three things that are completely untrue,” a visibly irritated mr Cameron said as he faced a grilling by a television studio audience for a BBC special.
After a 60-hour pause out of respect for Jo Cox, the Labour politician who was murdered last week, both sides in the Brexit referendum were back on the front line. Boris Johnson — Mr Cameron’s fellow Conservative and now his bitter adversary as head of the Leave camp — came out fighting with a hard-hitting newspaper column in which he said the EU had contributed “nothing, absolutely nothing” to Britain and urged the public to vote to “completely change the course of European history.”
The pound jumped the most since 2008 Monday as investors grew more confident British voters will opt to stay in the EU on June 23. The referendum is being watched by governments and investors around the world amid concern that a so-called Brexit would spark turmoil across global markets.
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In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe
Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010
Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille
Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm
Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year
Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”
Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners
TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013
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