Pro-Brexit campaign offers €66m prize for predicting Euro 16 results

Pro-Brexit campaigners have offered a €66m prize to any voter who can correctly predict every result of the European football championships in a novel bid to engage people with the debate.

Vote Leave hopes to use the contest to maximise the spread of its message by taking contact details and voting intentions from hundreds of thousands of armchair punters.

It was dismissed as a con by rivals pushing for a Remain vote after experts calculated the chances of winning the jackpot were somewhere in the hundreds of trillions to one.