Johnson: make Brexit ’UK independence day’

(23 May 2016) Leading campaigner for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, Boris Johnson, visited York on Monday, a month ahead of the referendum. The former London mayor addressed a crowd in the town centre, as he began a ’Vote Leave’ bus tour of Yorkshire. British voters will decide on 23 June whether or not to deal a historic hammer blow to European integration by putting their island nation on an independent path outside the European Union. EU advocates argue that leaving the bloc would batter Britain’s economy, costing each household thousands, while the “Leave“ side says Britain has blithely forfeited the independence it once fought so fiercely to defend - and can reclaim it only by walking away from the EU and its byzantine rules. Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: ​​ Instagram: You can license this story through AP Archive: