DHAKA: The UK faces an ‘existential choice’ in the EU referendum from which there would be ‘no turning back’, Prime Minister David Cameron has said.

Cameron said choosing to leave the EU in Thursday’s vote would be a ‘big mistake’ and lead to ‘debilitating uncertainty’ for up to a decade, reports the BBC.

However, Michael Gove told the Sunday Telegraph the UK could become a ‘progressive beacon’ by leaving the EU.

The Leave campaigner urged people to ‘vote for democracy’.

The appeals come as the Remain and Leave sides resumed their campaigns after suspending them for three days as a mark of respect to Labor MP Jo Cox, who was killed after being shot and stabbed on Thursday in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

Cameron said Thursday’s vote was the ‘ultimate democracy’ and represented what Cox, 41, had stood for.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Cameron, who is campaigning for Remain, said Cox had ‘embodied Britain at her best - a country that is decent and compassionate’.

The ‘irreversible’ referendum was a ‘watershed moment’ for the UK and a question ‘about the kind of country we want to be’, he said.

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