Former prime minister John Major commented on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show that leading members of Vote Leave, including Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Iain Duncan Smith have been running a deceitful, untrue, depressing, awful and “verging on the squalid” campaign to leave the EU. Major went on to claim that Gove wanted to privatise the NHS, Johnson wished to charge people for health services and Duncan Smith advocated moving to a social insurance system, adding: “The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be with a hungry python.”

Financial Times: Major accuses Leave campaign of deceit and attacks ‘jester’ Johnson

The Times: Court Jester Johnson is leading the squalid campaign, blasts Major

The Guardian: Major: NHS is as safe with Brexit Tories as hamster with python