Governemnt EU leaflet

Thank you for contacting me about Government leaflets on the EU referendum.

The Government has the legal right to send out a leaflet setting out is position which is to support continued membership of the EU. Having sent this single leaflet I do not believe the exercise will be repeated. Rules limiting all Government publications and communications will apply in the last 28 days of the referendum campaign under the provisions of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.

Whatever one's view on remaining in or leaving the EU I think everyone should recognise that it is only because of this Government and the legislation that it steered through Parliament that we have a Referendum at all. I am pleased that the British people have been given this opportunity and that we are in doing so, whatever the result, reminding other Member States that it is the British People who ultimately remain sovereign in the UK.