PM Hails 'Proud Muslim' Khan On EU Trail

David Cameron has hailed the "extraordinary coalition" that supports Britain remaining a part of the European Union, as he campaigned alongside Labour's Sadiq Khan.

Appearing together in southwest London, the pair formed an unlikely alliance just weeks after the Prime Minister was accused of using racist slurs against the new London Mayor.

The PM shook hands with Mr Khan and hailed the election of the "proud Muslim and proud Brit" as they launched a Britain Stronger in Europe battle bus and a five-point "guarantee card" on the EU ahead of the 23 June vote.

Mr Cameron said his appearance with Mr Khan was symbolic of the wider agreement across the political spectrum.

He said: "It has brought together this extraordinary coalition - Labour, Liberal, Conservative, Green, business, trade union, NGO - all together knowing this is the right answer."

Mr Cameron laughed off claims by pro-Brexit campaigners that warnings of an economic shock if Britain left the EU were "part of some massive establishment conspiracy".

"It would be a pretty exquisite conspiracy that could bring together the Labour mayor son of a bus driver and the Tory son of a stockbroker Prime Minister," he said.

"Sadiq and I say it for this reason: because we love our country, we want our country to be the best we possibly can, to be the strongest, to be the greatest."

The PM acknowledged there was "uncertainty and confusion" amid claims of scaremongering by both sides - and pledged "to speak clearly, to speak positively" up until polling day.

Mr Khan said the economic case for remaining was "crystal clear" but added, "there is a patriotic case as well".

He said: "This vote is about our values, it is about our character, it is about how we see our city and our country in the future.

"The reason why London is the greatest city in the world - and it is - we have never taken an isolationist approach, we are open-minded, we are outward-looking, we embrace other cultures and learn from other cultures and ideas as well."

Speaking before the event, Mr Khan said that while he would never be best friends with Mr Cameron, he was willing to put aside their differences to campaign to keep Britain in the EU.

The five pledges on the Remain campaign's guarantee card are: Full access to the EU's single market; workers' rights protected; keeping the European Arrest Warrant; a special status in Europe; stability for the UK.

But Vote Leave has hit back, countering with five guarantees of what it claimed a vote to remain would look like.

"If people vote to stay, they are voting for the free movement of people from Europe to the UK, permanently," chief executive Matthew Elliott said.

"This will get worse when Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey join the EU.

"British business will continue to be strangled by EU regulation and we will continue to send £50m each week to Brussels.

"If we Vote Leave on 23 June, we take back control of our money, our borders and our democracy.

"That's the safer option for our future."

UKIP MP Douglas Carswell, speaking for Vote Leave, said: "David Cameron cannot be trusted.

"Just a month ago he attacked Sadiq Khan as a terrorist sympathiser yet today he hailed him as a great politician as he stood next to him on a shared platform.

"Today he trumpeted the benefits of the European Arrest Warrant but a few years ago he warned that it was dangerous and that it stripped away centuries-old rights from the British people."

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