Boris Johnson said he wanted to see ‘total transparency’ ahead of the EU referendum. He referred to this as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ chance to get it right:
Owen Paterson laid into ‘Project Fear’ – suggesting that by the time it got to June, ‘dragons coming out of the Thames’ and ‘serpents coming out of our taps’ could be predictions made by those supporting Remain if Britain did vote out:
Whilst Matt Hancock didn’t mention dragons or serpents, he did say Brexit could mean ‘pain and problems’:
Labour’s Emma Reynolds, speaking on the Daily Politics, insisted she wasn’t an MP who plotted over lunch and was a ‘perfectly straightforward politician’:
And Michael Fabricant spoke of the benefits of the House of Commons library as a place to ‘chill out’:
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