GETTY David Cameron called for older people to vote to stay in the EU

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The Prime Minister also urged youngsters to tell their parents and grandparents to back EU membership in what he warned was a “very close” referendum battle. “Think about your children, about your grandchildren, think about the country and the world you want them to grow up in,” he said. “It is worth standing back and thinking here we are, 70 years after the end of the Second World War.

The PM is gaining a reputation for being a hypocrite Brian Monteith

“This continent which was in conflict for so much of the 20th century has found a way of peaceful coexistence and that is something we should want to be part of.” Mr Cameron told a Sunday newspaper of his fear that people who thought the “rational” course was to stay in the EU would not turn out to vote. “For heaven’s sake get out and vote In, because you might wake up and find out you’re out,” he pleaded.

GETTY The PM said people should think about their children and grand children

GETTY Young people in the UK have a greater tendency not to vote

Leave.EU spokesman Brian Monteith said: “The PM is fast gaining a reputation for being an impertinent hypocrite by turning the truth upside down and inside out. “Rather than begging young people, who have a greater tendency not to vote, to tell their grandparents, who need no lessons in voting, to keep the UK in the expensive EU, it is grandparents who are needed to advise young people it is in their interest to get out and vote to leave.”

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GETTY Carolyn Fairbairn said an exit would trigger serious economic disruption