The Case for Vote Leave an “overwhelmingly positive” one says Chris Grayling, ahead of visit to Wales

Vote Leave campaigners will be joined in Wales tomorrow by the Leader of the House of Commons, Chris Grayling, who is visiting to highlight the benefits of voting to leave the EU on June 23.

Mr Grayling will be joined by Monmouth MP, David Davis, and Welsh Conservative Leader – Andrew RT Davies.

Mr Grayling has highlighted the risks of Britain’s EU membership and earlier this week pledged that Wales would continue to receive the same level of funding if the UK votes to leave on June 23.

Mr Grayling said:

“I am someone who believes that simply staying in the EU with our current terms of membership unchanged would be disastrous for the whole of Britain, including Wales.

“We have reached what I believe is a crucial crossroads for the United Kingdom. The crisis in the Eurozone and the migration challenge have led to calls for still more integration and a move towards much greater political union.

“It is a path that the UK will not and should not follow. We have provided assurances that Wales would continue to receive at least the same level of funding if the UK votes to leave, and the case for Brexit is an overwhelmingly positive one that I will continue to make until polling day on June 23.”

Vote Leave will be campaigning in Caerphilly tomorrow where there have been complaints that activists have been given unfair treatment in recent days – being asked by council staff to move street stalls, whilst remain campaigners have been allowed to continue campaigning.

Mr Davies, MP for Monmouth, said that all residents have a right to be given an opportunity to discuss the issues around the referendum with campaigners from both sides.

He said:

“Caerphilly residents, and indeed those from all across Wales, have a right to engage with both campaigns and to hear the positive case for a vote to leave.

“There is absolutely no way that I would be a part of a campaign that in any way disrupted the highway or members of the public, and yet it seems that we have not been given a fair crack at engaging with voters in recent weeks.

“Every week we send around £350m (gross) to Brussels, which is money that could be better spent here in the UK on local priorities. That’s a strong message that the public are responding to, and yet in some quarters there seem to be efforts to stifle the debate and to prevent us from getting our point across.”