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"We need a proper frank debate on facts, not scare stories about what might happen," says Conservative MP Tim Loughton on the EU referendum scenarios. 

He says he can see a future for the UK outside the EU, but adds that he has not made up his mind on how to vote as he wants to wait for the outcome of the the EU reform talks.

Labour MP Rachel Reeves says it would be a "huge risk" if Britain left the EU, as no-one knows what that world would be like. She warns the UK would still have to pay into the system and would be subject to the EU rules to have access to its free markets.

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Will Straw, from Britain Stronger in Europe, says the group's claim that EU membership is worth about £670,000 to British businesses is based on an independent study by the Centre for European Reform (CRE)

"It's based on real numbers", he says, but adds that it's an average and will be higher for some and lower for others. He argues that it's in Britain's interests to be in the European Union, he adds.

But Robert Oxley, from Vote Leave, says the CRE is "pro-EU and EU funded". He stresses that the figures focuses only on trade and ignores services exports - and says the In campaign is cherry-picking. The UK will secure free trade deals if it leaves the EU, he adds.

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Discussing the Google tax deal, Conservative MP Tim Loughton says he thinks it's a "success", telling the Daily Politics: "It’s a good start, but it's only a start."

However, Rachel Reeves, former Labour work and pensions secretary, says it doesn't send a good signal to other companies can "get away with a tax bill that is this low".

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A new Banksy artwork criticising the use of teargas on refugees in the Calais "Jungle" camp has appeared in London, on a building opposite the French Embassy.

The mural, in Knightsbridge, is based on the poster for musical Les Miserables and shows a young girl with tears in her eyes, with a can of CS gas nearby.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, external, former Conservative Cabinet minister Norman Tebbit urges David Cameron to meet those in his party who "are concerned that his European policy needs to be about more than denying incomers part of the welfare benefits". He says "the first duty of a government is to control the borders of its state and decide who may, or may not be admitted to its territory".

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Jeremy Corbyn spoke to ITV's This Morning earlier about the migrant crisis and the state of the Labour Party. Here are some key quotes:

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Responding to MPs' warnings to charities about their fundraising activities, Paul Farmer, chairman of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations, says charity boards have taken this issue very seriously. He told the Today programme:

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As Britain Stronger in Europe makes the business case for continued EU membership today, BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith says it's clear the economy will be "absolutely pivotal" in the EU referendum.

There'll be arguments on immigration, welfare and Britain's place in the world but both sides of the referendum campaign recognise that what may determine the outcome of the vote is how the public feel it will affect their daily lives, he says.

However, the conflicting figures given by the different camps may make it "very difficult" so it may come down to people's "gut instincts", he adds.

Chancellor George Osborne has said that it is thanks to the action that the government has taken that companies like Google are paying back tax.

Speaking on a visit to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, he said:

The former M&S boss, now chairman of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, set out the business case for staying in the EU.

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Labour MP and former Commons Public Accounts Committee chairwoman Margaret Hodge has welcomed news that Google is pay the UK government £130m in back tax.

She said this was a "step in the right direction" and that she hoped it was "an admission that they got things wrong in the past".

She said it was frustrating though, that although it was known that the internet giant made £6.4bn from addresses in the UK last year, "we have no idea how much of that is profit" - and therefore what a fair amount of tax would be.

The Conservative chief secretary to the Treasury, ‎Greg Hands‎ says Labour is "in denial" over its defeat in the general election.

He was speaking after the leak of an unpublished report conducted by former Labour pollster Deborah Mattinson, who carried out research in marginal constituencies to feed into Dame Margaret Beckett's report on Labour's election loss.

Ms Mattinson says she briefed Dame Margaret Beckett ahead of the release of her report.

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Following MPs' warning that UK charities' fundraising activities could be controlled by law unless a new voluntary regulator succeeds in cleaning up the sector, Jeremy Corbyn says he thinks "some regulation" is needed.

The Labour leader says self-regulation "isn't always a great idea", adding that people should not be "morally pressurised" into giving donations to charity.

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Jeremy Corbyn is asked if he thinks he'll still be in the job in a few years time. 

"I'm doing my very best to present politics in a human way," he tells ITV's This Morning, adding that he will campaign for a Labour victory at the 2020 general election on a policy platform of investment in housing, education and the NHS.

Is the entire party behind him? "Party members are very happy," he replies. He says he has "some of the most fascinating debates" with his parliamentary Labour colleagues, and adds:

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is on ITV's This Morning talking about his recent trip to the Calais migrant camp in Calais, following his call for more migrants and refugees to be allowed in to Britain.

He says he's not saying "all 9,000" migrants at the camp should be allowed to come, but those with a British connection would be a good start. The Home Office "should let up a bit" and be "reasonable" in those cases, he argues.

The UK should also encourage the French authorities to deal with the "humanitarian crisis" there, he adds.

"They need our human help," he says.

Rory Cellan-Jones
Technology correspondent

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What's the state of Britain's broadband infrastructure and would it be better if the dominant supplier BT was split up?

That is the big issue for the regulator Ofcom and, as its decision approaches, the political temperature is hotting up. What has been lacking from the debate so far is much independent research with some facts about where we stand now and how we compare internationally.

Now a cross-party group of more than 100 MPs, led by the former Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps, has made a contribution. They have signed a letter calling for BT's Openreach division to be split off, external, backed up by a major study of the market.

More here.