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Six O'Clock News: 15/06/2016 Tory anger at Osborne Brexit warning

15/06/2016

15/06/2016 Tory anger at Osborne Brexit warning

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 15/06/2016 Tory anger at Osborne Brexit warning

Tory backbenchers dismiss Chancellor's warning of Brexit leading to austerity budget.

Conservative backbenchers have reacted with scorn to attempts by George Osborne to make the economy a decisive issue in the referendum.

Attempts by George Osborne to make the economy the decisive issue in the referendum, by saying a vote to leave the EU would be followed by an austerity budget, have resulted in a direct challenge to his authority.  

More than 60 Tory MPs have said his position as Chancellor would become untenable.  He's been backed by David Cameron, who said Brexit would leave a "huge hole" in the public finances.

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