05/06/2016 BBC Weekend News

A former Prime Minister launches a scathing attack on the campaign

for Britain to leave the European Union.

Sir John Major, who wants Britain to stay in the EU -

says the claims being made by leave campaigners are deceitful

is fundamentally dishonest, and it's dishonest about the cost of Europe.

For the Leave campaign, Boris Johnson defends the approach

Yes, there is our borders, but there are also very,

very important aspects of our economic life that invisibly

Remembering Muhammad Ali in his home town in Kentucky where his funeral

And Novak Djokovic defeats Andy Murray to win the French Open -

he now holds all four grand slams at the same time.

The former Conservative Prime Minister, Sir John Major,

who wants Britain to remain in the EU, has made a fierce

attack on the campaign for Britain to leave -

He said the claims being made were deceitful and on the issue

of immigration verging on the "squalid".

Boris Johnson has responded for the Leave campaign,

defending the focus on immigration and claiming the UK's population

could rise to 80 million if it is not brought under control.

Here's our political correspondent Ben Wright.

But today, the former Tory prime minister let rip,

I am angry at the way the British people are being misled.

I think their campaign is verging on the squalid.

What they have said about leaving is fundamentally dishonest.

I think this is a deceitful campaign.

He used to be caricatured as grey, but this was a Technicolor assault

Vote Leave have said some of the cash Britain currently

spends on being a member of the European Union could be

But Sir John Major said leading Conservatives could not be trusted

Boris wanted to charge people for using it,

and Iain Duncan Smith wanted a social insurance system.

The NHS is about as safe with them as a pet hamster would be

He then turned to Turkey, saying the Leave campaign's claim

the country would soon join the EU was misleading.

Is it seriously suggested, as they do, that all 88 million

Apparently, for our higher National Living Wage.

On the one hand, they say migrants are depressing wages,

and on the other, people are flooding in to get our

Turkey has applied to join the European Union, and the UK does

The Government insists that is decades away,

but Boris Johnson defended the Leave campaign's decision

The statement Turkey is joining the EU is not true, is it?

Turkey has been joining the EU since 1963.

You join or you don't join, but it is not true, is it?

That is what John Major was talking about.

Frankly, I don't mind whether Turkey joins the EU, provided

Turkey is bound up with the issue of immigration, and the Leave

campaign says outside the EU, total net migration to Britain

could be cut to the tens of thousands, a pledge

the Government has been unable to meet.

Unconditional numbers coming in, not only depressed wages for working

people, it is also a case that they put considerable strain

services, on housing, on the National Health Service,

We grew very successfully in the 1980s and 1990s with migration in

the tens of thousands. This referendum is laying bare deep

Tory divisions over Europe. They have existed since John Major

was in number ten himself, and somehow the Government will have to

move beyond this, whatever the referendum result. Tory civil war of

a Europe is probably not a drama most voters are interested in, and

both sides are trying to wrestle the arguments back to the issues at

stake. We have a short time to go until the referendum, and what

people want to hear the arguments. We are setting out on the Leave side

of the campaign and agenda for the Government to take back control on

June the 23rd of a lot of things that really matter to the people of

this country. There is a huge choice in front of voters, the biggest in a

generation, and today the rival campaigns were trying to clinch the

undecided today in Leeds. The arguments are fears because the vote

is getting close. Ben Wright, BBC News.

Muhammad Ali's family have said people from all over the world

are invited to his funeral in his hometown of

The ceremony will be held on Friday, but preparations are already

Let's join our correspondent, Aleem Maqbool, who's in Louisville.

Yes, those preparations are now under way for what is likely to be a

huge event on Friday. Ahead of the funeral, we believe his coffin will

be taken on a lot of procession through the city to allow people to

pay their respects at the loss of the city's most famous son. As a

boy, Cassius Clay came to this church with his parents. Thank you

for all our brave family, especially Muhammad Ali. His father painted the

mural behind the altar. They remember him here. And in their own

small ways, people across this city are doing the same, including

outside Muhammad Ali's childhood home. I am so beyond devastated, but

he is in a better place, he is at peace, and there is no more

suffering. Young boxers here of course are thinking of him, too. His

confidence, and his fearlessness. He said what ever he wanted to say to

whoever, and he stood up for what he believed in. The lesson from him is

to be yourself. Flags across the city of Louisville are at half-mast,

including here outside the huge arena where Muhammad Ali was mad

funeral is due to take place. His family said he was a citizen of the

world, and would have wanted as many people as possible from all walks of

life to be able to attend. And the tributes from further afield keep

coming, including from the man who famously cried after beating

Muhammad Ali in the twilight of his career. He would give the shirt off

his back. He didn't care about money or anything like that, he cared

about people. If people said hello to him on the street, you wouldn't

keep walking, he would sign the autograph, and people today don't do

that, celebrities don't do that. Particularly poignant have been the

words of Michael J Fox, who suffers from the same disease that affected

Muhammad Ali for more than three decades. Before I was diagnosed with

Parkinson's, I admired him, and I admired his athleticism, his poise,

his class, his style, his stoicism, his belief in what he thought was

right, and his willingness to accept the consequences of standing up for

that. His doctor says in the final year before his death, Muhammad Ali

had been having a tough time. That will be a distressing thought for

many around the world who remember the man in his pomp, power and

elegance and grace. Police investigating the

disappearance of a Suffolk man and his wife have arrested a man from

Leicester. A body believed to be

that of Peter Stuart, who was 75 and lived

in Weybread near Diss, was found close to his home

on Friday night. His wife, Sylvia, is still missing

and was last seen over a week ago. A woman's been killed in a shark

attack while diving off It's the second fatal attack

in the area in less than a week. The 60-year-old woman was diving

about a mile off shore near Perth With all the sport,

here's Karthi Gnanasegaram Good evening. Andy Murray has lost

his first French Open final, beaten in four sets by world number one

Novak Djokovic. He had been aiming to become the first British man to

win the title at Roland Garros since 1935, but instead, Djokovic to make

history, becoming only the third male player to hold all four grand

slams at the same time. Andy Swiss reports from Paris.

So, would a gloomy Sunday in Paris prove another date with destiny?

This was the last time a British man won here, but more than 80 years on,

the Andy Murray Fanclub were hoping once again for history. He is in

good form, and I think he has the confidence to beat him. I am just

confidence. We are ready ex-Mac he has so much resilience and

determination, and visits his time. It happen today. Come on! Certainly

optimism would be required. Murray was up against his nemesis, Novak

Djokovic, chasing the only grand slam to have eluded him, but it was

Murray that roared out of the blocks. He used to struggle on clay,

but not any more. The top seed looks rattled. After one close line call,

he lost his composure, and he duly lost the first set. Murray seemingly

in control. But not for long. At last, Djokovic stirred, and in what

style, as he raced to the second set 6-1. The world number one was now

playing like it, and as Murray's form and energy dropped, Djokovic's

hit new heights. He reeled off the next two sets, and his reward was

sporting greatness. The last gap in his CV had been finally filled, and

you could see what it meant. For Murray, it was hard to take, but

this was Djokovic's day, his domination of men's tennis now

gloriously complete. Yes, Novak Djokovic, the first man

to hold all four Grand Slam titles simultaneously since Rod Laver back

in 1969. As far Andy Murray, he will be hoping to go one better at

Wimbledon, which begins later this month.

Andy Smith, thank you very much. Wales have been defeated by Sweden

in their only warm up match since the championship starts. Sweden were

3-0 winners in Stockholm. Gareth Bale played the final 30 minutes of

the game. Euro 2016 starts on Friday, with Wales's first game on

Saturday. Becky Downie has won gold at the European gymnastics

Championships. It helps take the British's women's team tally to four

medals. She was crowned European champion on the uneven bars, while

her younger sister Ellie pledged to medals, on the vault and floor, on

the final day of the competition. And at the Birmingham athletics

Grand Prix, Mo Farah has broken Avonmore croft's 30-year-old world

record for the 3000 metres. All this week we've been looking

at what voting In or Out in the EU referendum might mean

for us practically. Today we're examining at the impact

of Leaving or Remaining on the millions of us who take

holidays to EU countries every year. Our transport correspondent

Richard Westcott reports. Making a quick Brexit,

but only for a week or so. Three quarters of our foreign

holidays are in the EU. That's 29 million Brits popping over

to Europe every year. It's the perfect weather, frankly,

to be jetting off on holiday. We've all got used to low-cost

fares and relatively easy But could all that change

if we leave the EU? Holiday-makers have plenty

of questions. If we leave the EU, will our air

fares go up? Hi, we're the Hughes

family just off to Malaga. If our flight is delayed

or cancelled, will we get any compensation for that

if we leave the EU? Monarch flies around 7 million

passengers every year. The boss is in no doubt

what Brexit would mean. I think we can reasonably assume

that European airfares are going to go up if we leave

the EU and I base that on what I've seen happen over my career,

particularly in the last 16 years, since the likes of easyJet,

Ryanair have really grown. They have grown on the back

of agreements that were facilitated by the EU, that allow any EU airline

to fly anywhere in the EU. And that growth has really driven

down the prices for consumers. On the Essex coast, a different boss

wants to be free of Europe. Peter Healey runs a ?100

million holiday business. He says competition will

keep airfares down. This is a highly commercialised,

highly successful business. These guys are very clever

about what they do. In the EU, out the EU,

it may be inconvenient for them but I do not believe

there is a greater impact than that. EU members also also get

compensation if their flights are delayed,

so what happens to that? The protections now

are enshrined in British law. Unless it's going to be taken out

if we leave the EU, it's But the biggest impact depends

on the value of the pound. The Treasury predicts it will get

noticeably weaker for a few years if we left the EU, and that

would make all foreign Decision time is looming,

but at least they won't be worrying There's more throughout the evening

on the BBC News Channel. We're back with the

late news at 10.30.