But Cameron claims he's being plain speaking and just giving out the facts

Boris Johnson tonight dismissed as 'baloney' David Cameron's insistence he is pursuing 'project fact' by laying out the dangers of Brexit.

In another day of clashes between the Prime Minister and London Mayor, Mr Johnson first hit out at the 'project fear' tactics being used by Mr Cameron's Remain campaign.

The intervention prompted Mr Cameron to insist at his latest campaign stop in Ipswich that he wanted to be straight voters and he told a group of students he was only interested in 'project fact'.

Boris Johnson, pictured wielding a hammer on a visit to a bullet proof glass factor in Northern Ireland today, wants to smash up Britain's EU membership

But he claimed today the Prime Minister's Remain campaign is leaning on 'project fear' to try and keep Britain in the EU

But speaking on a visit to Northern Ireland - where he posed for photographs trying to smash bullet proof glass with a mallet - Mr Johnson said this was 'baloney'.

He told LBC: 'There is an attempt going on to scare people into staying with the status quo, when I think the real risk is we will simply remain in a system that is less and less suitable to our needs.’

Mr Johnson urged Britons to have 'courage' to resist the fear driven campaigns and head for the Brexit.

Mr Johnson's attack echoed his latest Daily Telegraph column, where he derided the Remain campaign's attempt to leave voters in a 'state of quivering apprehension' by the time they go to the polls on June 23.

But at his latest campaign stop today, the Prime Minister dismissed the criticism.

Mr Cameron said: 'The only project I'm interested in is ''Project Fact''.

'Project Fact is about saying stay and you know what you get. Leave, and you're taking a gamble with people's lives'.'

The Prime Minister added: 'This is not about raising concerns and worries which aren't there - they are real concerns and worries based on fact.'

After facing claims from his work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith that he was talking down the British people, Mr Cameron added: 'I have the highest possible opinion of the British people.'

The Prime Minister's spokeswoman earlier said Mr Cameron planned to continue to 'speak plainly' about his view Britain was 'better off, stronger and safer' inside the EU.

Mr Cameron, who has made a string of appearances over the past week with visits to Lancashire, Wales and Northern Ireland, made his latest intervention after a Government report claimed leaving the EU could create a decade of turmoil for Britain.

David Cameron was back on the campaign trail today, speaking to students in Ipswich, pictured. He rejected claims he was promoting 'project fear' insisted he was only interested in 'project fact'

London Mayor Mr Johnson, pictured on a visit to Northern Ireland this morning, today criticised the In campaign for trying to scare voters

Ukip leader Nigel Farage seized on Mr Cameron's use of the phrase 'project fact' in a bid to promote his own campaign.

He tweeted: 'European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has called for a full EU Army. #ProjectFact'

He added: 'Inside the EU, we as the fifth largest economy in the world are forbidden from negotiating our own trade deals. Forbidden! ProjectFact'

Mr Farage said: 'EU membership costs the UK £55 million every single day. #ProjectFact'

Mr Johnson, who visited Northern Ireland with his fellow 'Out' Tory colleague Theresa Villiers this morning, became the standard bearer for the Out campaign when he infuriated the Prime Minister with a declaration he would campaign for Brexit.

But as a Government report warned of a decade of chaos if Britain opts for Out in June, Mr Johnson hit out at the negative messages.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage seized on the 'project fact' slogan used by Mr Cameron and immediately started tweeting suggestions in support of his own Brexit campaign

And he said today: 'The agents of Project Fear – and they seem to be everywhere – have warned us that leaving the EU would jeopardise police, judicial and intelligence cooperation.

'We have even been told that the EU has been responsible, over the last 70 years, for 'keeping the peace in Europe'.

'In every case the message is that Brexit is simply too scary; and the reality is that these threats are so wildly exaggerated as to be nonsense.'

'I DON'T WANT SCOTLAND TO BE INDEPENDENT BECAUSE OF BREXIT,' NICOLA STURGEON INSISTS Nicola Sturgeon (pictured in London today) said she was targeting an 'overwhelming' vote for Britain to stay in the EU and insisted she did not want Scotland to go independent because of Brexit Nicola Sturgeon insisted today that she does not want Scotland to become independent because of Britain leaving the EU. Scotland's First Minister used a speech in London to warn there was a 'real chance' of her country holding a second independence referendum if UK voters back Brexit in June. Ms Sturgeon set out a positive case for staying in the 28-state bloc, telling voters that the EU was 'good for the prosperity and the well-being of individuals, families and communities across our country'. The SNP leader said she was targeting an 'overwhelming' vote to remain in the EU in the June 23 referendum and told her fellow In campaigners south of the border to sell an 'uplifting' and 'positive' message of the EU. Her remarks were seen as criticism of the tactics of the In campaign in the first week of the campaign, which have been described as 'Project Fear' by Out campaigners. In a speech in central London today, Ms Sturgeon said: 'I hope that the debate that we engage in over the next few months is a thoroughly positive debate, because one of the undoubted lessons of the Scottish experience is that a miserable, negative, fear-based campaign saw the No campaign in the Scottish referendum lose over the course of the campaign a 20-point lead. 'I don't have to point out to anybody here that the In campaign in this referendum doesn't have a 20-point lead to squander.' Insisting that she wants Scotland to vote on their own future independent of whether the UK votes to leave the EU, Ms Sturgeon added: 'If Scotland were to vote in favour of EU membership and the rest of the UK were to vote to leave - if Scotland in other words was to be outvoted - then there is a real chance that that could lead to a second referendum on Scottish independence. 'It's not what I want to happen. Of course, I do want Scotland to be independent, but I don't want Scotland to become independent because the UK chooses to leave the European Union. 'I want the UK as a whole to stay in the EU because I think that option will be better for the rest of the UK, I think it will be better for the EU and, should Scotland become independent in the future - something I believe will happen - I think it will be better for us too. 'Ireland's stance on the UK referendum is good evidence of this. Why wouldn't we want our closest neighbour also to be a member of the European Union?' Advertisement

The Mayor added: 'Indeed I am ever more convinced that the real risk is to sit back and do nothing, to remain inertly and complacently in an unreformed EU that is hell-bent on a federal project over which we have no control.'

Mr Johnson reserved a specific attack for the decision by the Treasury to encourage a G20 meeting of finance ministers in Shanghai last week to warn a Brexit would cause a 'shock' to the world economy.

The London Mayor said this was a 'curious spectacle' as the official communique appeared to be re-written at Britain's urging.

And he added: '(It was) surely the first time any country has used an international forum actively to talk up threats to its own economic prospects.'

Mr Johnson used the column to warn the EU was on the brink of 'another huge new centralising leap' and claimed French president Francois Hollander wanted a 'federal parliament' for the eurozone.

And he said: 'Whatever the risks of Brexit, they are eclipsed by the problems of remaining in a political construct that has changed out of all recognition since we joined in 1972.'

Mr Johnson added: 'It is a once in a lifetime chance to energise our democracy, cut bureaucracy, save £8 bn a year, control our borders and strike new trade deals with growth economies that are currently forbidden.

'Vote Leave would be good for Britain and the only way to jolt the EU into the reform it needs. Let's call it Project Hope.'

The Government review out today warns car manufacturing, farming, financial services and millions of British expats in Europe would all be hit by a Brexit.

The Cabinet Office report, which emerged in the Guardian today, said the two year exit outlined in the EU treaties was unlikely.

The civil servant-authored report said: 'A vote to leave the EU would be the start, not the end, of a process. It could lead to up to a decade or more of uncertainty.'

Legally, the process to leave the EU requires the Prime Minister to trigger 'article 50' of the treaties which formally begins a two-year programme of negotiations.

Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock defended his department's work today as a 'cautious assessment'.

Meanwhile Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon urged her fellow In campaigners south of the border to adopt more 'positive' tactics in the EU referendum, telling them not to fall in the trap of pursuing the 'miserable, negative, fear-based campaign' that undermined the No campaign in the Scottish independence referendum.

She also insisted she did not want Scotland to become independence as a consequence of Britain leaving the EU.

But she warned unionists that there was a 'real chance' of a second independence referendum if voters do opt to cut ties with Brussels.

'If Scotland were to vote in favour of EU membership and the rest of the UK were to vote to leave - if Scotland in other words was to be outvoted - then there is a real chance that that could lead to a second referendum on Scottish independence,' she told an audience in central London.

'It's not what I want to happen. Of course, I do want Scotland to be independent, but I don't want Scotland to become independent because the UK chooses to leave the European Union.'

Mr Cameron will come under further pressure over his decision to impose a ban on pro-Brexit ministers accessing government papers that relate to the EU after Commons Speaker John Bercow granted an Urgent Question on the issue.

Leading Eurosceptic Bernard Jenkin will demand ministers explain the reasoning behind imposing the strict civil service guidance, which he claims will hinder the ability of anti-EU ministers from doing their jobs.

The Government threatens a DECADE of chaos if Britain backs Brexit and one minister claims it's 'cautious'

Ministers today claimed the Government was being 'cautious' in a prediction Britain faces 10 years of chaos if voters choose to quit the EU.

An official Government review warned the country would suffer a decade of turmoil after a Brexit vote as it negotiated new trading relationships with the EU.

But Boris Johnson today blasted the 'project fear' agenda promoted by the Government while Commons leader Chris Grayling insisted there was 'no evidence' behind the new report.

Matthew Hancock, the Cabinet Office minister, has claimed the report was a cautious assessment of the implication of Britain quitting the EU.

London Mayor Boris Johnson, left, has dismissed the Government campaign as promoting 'fear' while Commons leader Chris Grayling, right, said there was no evidence behind the new report

The review warns car manufacturing, farming, financial services and millions of British expats in Europe would all be hit by a Brexit.

The Cabinet Office review, which emerged in the Guardian today, said the two year exit outlined in the EU treaties was unlikely.

The civil servant-authored report said: 'A vote to leave the EU would be the start, not the end, of a process. It could lead to up to a decade or more of uncertainty.'

Legally, the process to leave the EU requires the Prime Minister to trigger 'article 50' of the treaties which formally begins a two-year programme of negotiations.

And Mr Hancock defended his department's work today as a 'cautious assessment'.

He told the BBC: 'It will take two years in which we go through the first part of this, which is renegotiating our relationship with EU countries.

'During that period there are businesses around Britain who say there will be risks to jobs and investment because they don't know what the future relationship will be.

'There are real consequences of this for jobs and for livelihoods. I must say this isn't only my view, it is also the view of some of the leave campaigners who have said there will be, in their words, ''pain and problems and risk and cost and uncertainty''.'

But Mr Grayling dismissed the report.

He said: 'Why on earth would we think it would take quite as long as the Second World War to be able to sort out our trading relationships with Europe and elsewhere?

'What possible evidence is there that it would take 10 years to sort out our trading arrangements?

'If you look at our relations with the European Union, we have a £50 billion-plus trade deficit with the European Union - we buy much more from them than they buy from us.'

CAMERON TO FACE BORIS OR GOVE IN TV SHOWDOWN David Cameron (right) could face his rival Boris Johnson (left) in a TV showdown days before the EU vote David Cameron is set to face either Boris Johnson or Michael Gove in a TV showdown days before the EU referendum. Brexit campaigners say one of Mr Gove and Mr Johnson will represent the Out camp in the BBC Question Time show on June 15, while Mr Cameron is expected to lead the argument for staying in the EU. But they will not go head-to-head debate with Mr Cameron - instead the show will see each camp face a grilling from a studio audience one after the other. A final TV debate on the EU will be held at Wembley Arena on June 21, two days before voters go to the polls, but the Prime Minister is not expected to take part. The Wembley venue has a capacity of around 12,500 and In campaigners fear the 'bear pit' could be hijacked by Brexit fans. Meanwhile Eurosceptics have accused of giving biased coverage of the referendum campaign so far. Tory MP Andrew Bridgen has written to the BBC news boss James Harding with 'serious concerns' of bias in the organisation. 'The BBC is emerging as a cheerleader for those who want to remain in the EU,' he said. Fellow Tory MP and founder of the Eurosceptics Conservatives for Britain group said it was 'essential for democracy and the credibility of the BBC that our state broadcaster is, and is seen to be, scrupulously impartial'. Mr Harding insisted the BBC would ensure its coverage gave fair coverage to both sides of the debate. A Downing Street source said: 'No decisions have been made or discussions held. Our opponents can talk about debates for four months if they want; we are talking about the big issues.' Advertisement

How will your MP vote? Full list of all the Conservative politicians who have declared their stand on the EU referendum debate

TORY MPs WHO WANT TO STAY IN EU Name Constituency Guto Bebb Aberconwy Nick Herbert Arundel and South Downs Damian Green Ashford David Lidington Aylesbury Victoria Prentis Banbury Maria Miller Basingstoke Ben Howlett Bath Jane Ellison Battersea Dominic Grieve Beaconsfield Graham Stuart Beverley and Holderness David Evennett Bexleyheath and Crayford Paul Maynard Blackpool North and Cleveleys Nick Gibb Bognor Regis and Littlehampton Matt Warman Boston and Skegness David Tredinnick Bosworth Tobias Ellwood Bournemouth East Eric Pickles Brentwood and Ongar Simon Kirby Brighton Kemptown Keith Simpson Broadland Bob Neill Bromley and Chislehurst Sajid Javid Bromsgrove Anna Soubry Broxtowe Andrew Griffiths Burton Jo Churchill Bury St Edmunds Craig Whittaker Calder Valley Craig Williams Cardiff North Simon Hart Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Mel Stride Central Devon Daniel Poulter Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Edward Argar Charnwood Simon Burns Chelmsford Greg Hands Chelsea and Fulham Alex Chalk Cheltenham Michelle Donelan Chippenham Mark Field Cities of London and Westminster Edward Timpson Crewe and Nantwich Gavin Barwell Croydon Central Chris Philp Croydon South Patrick McLoughlin Derbyshire Dales Claire Perry Devizes Charlie Elphicke Dover David Mundell Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale Damian Hinds East Hampshire Sam Gyimah East Surrey Antoinette Sandbach Eddisbury Alec Shelbrooke Elmet and Rothwell Maggie Throup Erewash Helen Whately Faversham and Mid Kent Mike Freer Finchley and Golders Green Damian Collins Folkestone and Hythe Mark Harper Forest of Dean Mark Menzies Fylde Richard Graham Gloucester Byron Davies Gower Nicholas Boles Grantham and Stamford Brandon Lewis Great Yarmouth Anne Milton Guildford James Morris Halesowen and Rowley Regis Sir Edward Garnier Harborough Robert Halfon Harlow Andrew Jones Harrogate and Knaresborough Amber Rudd Hastings and Rye Alan Mak Havant John Howell Henley Mark Prisk Hertford and Stortford Oliver Dowden Hertsmere Guy Opperman Hexham Jeremy Quin Horsham Jonathan Djanogly Huntingdon Ben Gummer Ipswich Kris Hopkins Keighley Jeremy Wright Kenilworth and Southam James Berry Kingston and Surbiton Chris Skidmore Kingswood Nicky Morgan Loughborough Victoria Atkins Louth and Horncastle Philip Dunne Ludlow Theresa May Maidenhead Helen Grant Maidstone and The Weald Caroline Spelman Meriden George Freeman Mid Norfolk Sir Nicholas Soames Mid Sussex Nigel Huddleston Mid Worcestershire Sir Paul Beresford Mole Valley David Morris Morecambe and Lunesdale Robert Jenrick Newark Richard Benyon Newbury Peter Heaton-Jones North Devon Simon Hoare North Dorset Alistair Burt North East Bedfordshire Oliver Heald North East Hertfordshire Sir Roger Gale North Thanet Shailesh Vara North West Cambridgeshire Michael Ellis Northampton North Chloe Smith Norwich North Marcus Jones Nuneaton James Brokenshire Old Bexley and Sidcup Jo Johnson Orpington Nicola Blackwood Oxford West and Abingdon Rory Stewart Penrith and The Border Oliver Colvile Plymouth Sutton and Devonport Flick Drummond Portsmouth South Stephen Crabb Preseli Pembrokeshire Justine Greening Putney Rob Wilson Reading East Alok Sharma Reading West Crispin Blunt Reigate Jake Berry Rossendale and Darwen Mark Pawsey Rugby Nick Hurd Ruislip Northwood and Pinner Philip Hammond Runnymede and Weybridge Kenneth Clarke Rushcliffe Sir Alan Haselhurst Saffron Walden John Glen Salisbury Robert Goodwill Scarborough and Whitby Michael Fallon Sevenoaks Mark Spencer Sherwood Julian Smith Skipton and Ripon Julian Knight Solihull Heidi Allen South Cambridgeshire Lucy Frazer South East Cambridgeshire Alberto Costa South Leicestershire Gavin Williamson South Staffordshire James Cartlidge South Suffolk Robert Buckland South Swindon Andrew Selous South West Bedfordshire Gary Streeter South West Devon David Gauke South West Hertfordshire Elizabeth Truss South West Norfolk Jeremy Hunt South West Surrey Jeremy Lefroy Stafford Karen Bradley Staffordshire Moorlands Margot James Stourbridge Neil Carmichael Stroud Therese Coffey Suffolk Coastal George Osborne Tatton Mark Pritchard The Wrekin Kevin Hollinrake Thirsk and Malton Luke Hall Thornbury and Yate Neil Parish Tiverton and Honiton Thomas Tugendhat Tonbridge and Malling Kevin Foster Torbay Sarah Newton Truro and Falmouth Greg Clark Tunbridge Wells Tania Mathias Twickenham Alun Cairns Vale of Glamorgan Ed Vaizey Wantage David Mowat Warrington South Chris White Warwick and Leamington Richard Harrington Watford Peter Aldous Waveney Oliver Letwin West Dorset Matthew Hancock West Suffolk Harriett Baldwin West Worcestershire John Penrose Weston-Super-Mare Stephen Hammond Wimbledon Steve Brine Winchester David Cameron Witney Robin Walker Worcester Peter Bottomley Worthing West Ben Wallace Wyre and Preston North Mark Garnier Wyre Forest TORY MPs WHO WANT TO LEAVE EU Name Constituency Sir Gerald Howarth Aldershot Graham Brady Altrincham and Sale West Nigel Mills Amber Valley John Baron Basildon and Billericay Bob Stewart Beckenham Richard Fuller Bedford Anne-Marie Trevelyan Berwick-upon-Tweed Chris Green Bolton West Conor Burns Bournemouth West James Cleverly Braintree Chris Davies Brecon and Radnorshire Ian Liddell-Grainger Bridgwater and West Somerset Andrew Percy Brigg and Goole Charles Walker Broxbourne David Nuttall Bury North George Eustice Camborne and Redruth Julian Brazier Canterbury Rebecca Harris Castle Point Cheryl Gillan Chesham and Amersham Andrew Tyrie Chichester Iain Duncan Smith Chingford and Woodford Green Theresa Villiers Chipping Barnet Christopher Chope Christchurch Martin Vickers Cleethorpes David Jones Clwyd West Will Quince Colchester Jason McCartney Colne Valley Fiona Bruce Congleton Tom Pursglove Corby Henry Smith Crawley Gareth Johnson Dartford Chris Heaton-Harris Daventry Mike Wood Dudley South Tim Loughton East Worthing and Shoreham Sir Greg Knight East Yorkshire Mims Davies Eastleigh David Burrowes Enfield Southgate Eleanor Laing Epping Forest Chris Grayling Epsom and Ewell Dominic Raab Esher and Walton Suella Fernandes Fareham Jack Lopresti Filton and Bradley Stoke Edward Leigh Gainsborough Rehman Chishti Gillingham and Rainham Caroline Dinenage Gosport Adam Holloway Gravesham David Davis Haltemprice and Howden Bob Blackman Harrow East Bernard Jenkin Harwich and North Essex William Wragg Hazel Grove Mike Penning Hemel Hempstead Matthew Offord Hendon Andrew Bingham High Peak Peter Lilley Hitchin and Harpenden Angela Watkinson Hornchurch and Upminster Andrew Turner Isle of Wight Victoria Borwick Kensington Philip Hollobone Kettering Maria Caulfield Lewes Michael Fabricant Lichfield Karl McCartney Lincoln John Whittingdale Maldon Nadine Dorries Mid Bedfordshire Iain Stewart Milton Keynes South David Davies Monmouth Glyn Davies Montgomeryshire Andrea Jenkyns Morley and Outwood Julian Lewis New Forest East Desmond Swayne New Forest West Anne Marie Morris Newton Abbot Scott Mann North Cornwall Stephen Barclay North East Cambridgeshire Ranil Jayawardena North East Hampshire Jacob Rees-Mogg North East Somerset Bill Wiggin North Herefordshire Owen Paterson North Shropshire Liam Fox North Somerset Justin Tomlinson North Swindon Craig Tracey North Warwickshire Kit Malthouse North West Hampshire Andrew Bridgen North West Leicestershire Henry Bellingham North West Norfolk James Gray North Wiltshire Andrew Stephenson Pendle Stewart Jackson Peterborough Robert Syms Poole Penny Mordaunt Portsmouth North Mark Francois Rayleigh and Wickford Karen Lumley Redditch Nigel Evans Ribble Valley Rishi Sunak Richmond Zac Goldsmith Richmond Park James Duddridge Rochford and Southend East Andrew Rosindell Romford Alan Duncan Rutland and Melton Nigel Adams Selby and Ainsty Philip Davies Shipley Daniel Kawczynski Shrewsbury and Atcham Gordon Henderson Sittingbourne and Sheppey Stephen Phillips Sleaford and North Hykeham David Warburton Somerton and Frome Heather Wheeler South Derbyshire Richard Drax South Dorset Sheryll Murray South East Cornwall John Hayes South Holland and The Deepings Richard Bacon South Norfolk Andrea Leadsom South Northamptonshire Seema Kennedy South Ribble Craig Mackinlay South Thanet Andrew Murrison South West Wiltshire Royston Smith Southampton Itchen David Amess Southend West Kwasi Kwarteng Spelthorne Anne Main St Albans Steve Double St Austell and Newquay Derek Thomas St Ives Stephen McPartland Stevenage James Wharton Stockton South Bill Cash Stone Nadhim Zahawi Stratford-on-Avon Michael Gove Surrey Heath Paul Scully Sutton and Cheam Christopher Pincher Tamworth Lucy Allan Telford Laurence Robertson Tewkesbury Geoffrey Clifton-Brown The Cotswolds Geoffrey Cox Torridge and West Devon Sarah Wollaston Totnes Boris Johnson Uxbridge and South Ruislip James Davies Vale of Clwyd Nusrat Ghani Wealden Graham Evans Weaver Vale Peter Bone Wellingborough Adam Afriyie Windsor Priti Patel Witham Jonathan Lord Woking John Redwood Wokingham Steven Baker Wycombe Marcus Fysh Yeovil Julian Sturdy York Outer

Boris Johnson (pictured outside his house) angered David Cameron by announcing he will vote for Brexit Michael Gove (pictured) is a close family friend of David Cameron but is opposing him on the EU



