Boris Johnson "profoundly unhappy" with UKIP poster

Prominent Leave campaigner Boris Johnson has criticised the actions of UKIP in releasing a campaign poster showing migrants and refugees border-crossing, ahead of the UK's historic referendum on its European Union membership on Thursday.

Nigel Farage's anti-immigration poster caused controversy last week when it was compared to Nazi style propaganda from the 1930s, as it showed a group of immigrants with the headline "breaking point".

Nigel Farage's anti-immigration poster caused controversy last week

Johnson told LBC on Tuesday morning he felt "profoundly unhappy" when he saw the poster. "I didn't like it. It seemed to be saying 'these are bad people coming to our country'. That seemed to be the message," Johnson said.

"It's only if you take back control of immigration that you can actually neutralise extremism," he said as he attributed the rise in right-wing extremism to the fact that people were not being consulted on matters such as immigration.

During the interview Johnson also criticised Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne for "talking the country down".

"I think the current gloom is actually being induced by Project Fear and the whole nonsense coming from the Remain campaign. This is the most powerful, dynamic urban economy in the world," he adds. "If we continue at this rate, we're going to knock spots off absolutely everywhere."

US investor George Soros predicted a sharp fall in the value of the pound after a potential Brexit vote

This morning, US investor George Soros predicted a sharp fall in the value of the pound after a potential Brexit vote, but the former London mayor dismissed the prediction.

"I think you should listen to people who make things," the Conservative MP and Leave campaigner says, rather than "people who speculate on market movements".