PMQs live: Corbyn accuses Boris of wanting to privatise NHS as Tory MPs rebel against 'post-Brexit budget'
The Independent’s live coverage of the final Prime Minister’s Questions before the EU referendum
The latest updates are:
- Corbyn and Cameron team up to launch attacks on Leave campaign
- Labour leader says Brexiteers lead by Boris and Michael Gove could privatise the NHS
- PM insists health service will be stronger inside the EU
- Rebel Tory MP vows to vote down 'vindictive' post-Brexit budget
- But rare show of unity in Commons as majority of MPs pose pro-EU questions
- Brexit would spark £30bn in spending cuts and tax rises, warn Osborne and Darling
- 57 Tory MPs pledge to vote down George Osborne's post-Brexit budget
- Jeremy Corbyn backs Remain and calls Leave leaders ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’
- Ukip leader Nigel Farage has joined a flotilla of Brexit-backing fishing boats sailing up the Thames
Welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of the final Prime Minister’s Questions before the EU referendum next week. It comes as tensions within the Conservative party become even more evident today as around 60 Conservative MPs pledged to vote down the Chancellor’s budget if Britain left the EU. They also said his position would be “untenable”.
The pro-Brexit Tory MPs are responding to a warning from the Chancellor – issued on Tuesday evening – that after Brexit he would have to raise the basic income tax by 2 per cent, raise the higher rate by 3 per cent, and inheritance tax by 5 per cent.
He also pledged £2.5bn cuts to the NHS budget, defence spending reductions of £1.2bn, and education cuts of £1.15bn. The Chancellor said the budget, based off calculations by the Institute for Fiscal Studies about the impact of Brexit, was necessary to plug a “black hole” in the public finances that would open up.
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