EU withdrawal wouldn't be as disastrous as claimed for UK, Johnson says

UK withdrawal from the European Union would not be as “cataclysmic” for British jobs as supporters of membership claim, London Mayor Boris Johnson claimed today.

Johnson was speaking amid growing pressure on David Cameron over Europe, with Tory grandees like Lord Lawson and Michael Portillo advocating withdrawal and backbenchers hoping to force a Commons vote next week in protest at the Prime Minister’s failure to table legislation to pave the way for a referendum.