Michael Gove hits out over ‘bogeyman’ Brexit tactics

British justice minister Michael Gove accused government colleagues of treating voters like children, saying they were trying to scare them into voting to stay in the EU with “new bogeymen every night”.

Gove, a friend of pro-EU prime minister David Cameron, used a speech to lampoon ‘In’ campaigners, who include top ministers, deepening a rift in the ruling Conservatives before a June 23 referendum on membership of the 28-nation bloc.

He also attacked a report delivered on Monday by chancellor George Osborne, who said an exit from the EU, or Brexit, could cost Britons thousands of pounds a year and sap funding for public services.