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MPs Owen Paterson and Emma Reynolds are asked if they have ever been involved in a political plot over a restaurant meal. 

Jo Coburn also heard from the The Mirror's Kevin Maguire about why politicians appear to conduct some covert talks in very public places, and where are the best places to overhear Westminster gossip.  

David Cameron is speaking to an audience of students in Ipswich about the EU referendum. He tells them that the row about EU documents has "got slightly out of proportion" and the public should focus on the bigger issue of the merits of staying in or leaving. The government is not neutral on the issue, he says, and ministers who back EU exit should not expect to see documents making the government's case for staying in as he would not expect to see papers prepared by campaign groups opposing EU membership. 

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David Cameron was campaigning in Northern Ireland on Saturday to make the case for EU membership. Today, it is Boris Johnson's turn to make the opposing argument. The Mayor of London visited County Antrim to celebrate the decision by Wrightbus to order 195 London Routemaster buses in a deal worth £62m. Accompanying Mr Johnson were Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers and First Minister Arlene Foster, who also back EU exit. Mr Johnson said we need "to lift our eyes to the horizon and think globally".

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Reflecting on Nicola Sturgeon's speech earlier, Professor John Curtice says the SNP's support for EU membership is likely to be a decisive factor in how Scotland votes in the referendum on 23 June. The party's supporters back EU membership by about three to one, compared to two to one for Labour and an even split of opinion among Conservatives north of the border, the elections expert tells the BBC. He says the SNP are sceptical about the EU, having decided they would not want to join the euro or the Schenghen passport-free zone, but the way the governing party has "bundled" up the issue of EU membership with independence has meant that the policy has a wider appeal than would otherwise be the case. 

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Emma Reynolds said Yanis Varoufakis would not be her "first choice" as an adviser to the Labour Party.

Asked whether she was pleased that Mr Varoufakis will be advising the shadow chancellor John McDonnell, the Labour MP said: "I don't think should comment on that."

And she then told Jo Coburn on the Daily Politics that she was "not really" a fan of the former Greek finance minister, and the decision to appoint him was "entirely up to John McDonnell and his team".

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Former Cabinet secretary Lord O'Donnell says he backs his successor Sir Jeremy Heywood over the EU documents row telling the BBC that he has got it pretty much right. He says "dissenting ministers" will only be prevented from seeing a limited number of papers relating to the arguments for and against EU membership. But Lord Lawson, chair of the Vote Leave campaign, says he is not "wholly satisfied" with this and says it contrasts with what he remembers the situation to have been in the 1975 referendum. The arrangement, he argues, risks "jeopardising" the civil service's reputation for impartiality. Ministers, he says, "should be able to see all documents". "They are still ministers and they should be able to see them."

The PoliticsHome website, external is reporting some criticism by employment minister Priti Patel of the Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood over the row about access to government EU documents. Read our story. Ms Patel is reported as telling the website. 

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Downing Street said it would "completely reject" the suggestion the Remain camp in the EU Referendum is running a relentless campaign of fear.

The Prime Minister's Official Spokeswoman said the government was committed to setting out a "factual and hard hitting" case for staying in a "reformed EU".

On the issue of the restrictions placed on the documents ministers campaigning for so-called Brexit can see, the spokeswoman said there was "no outright ban on ministers receiving papers on EU related business", but added that "the role of the Civil Service is to support the position of the government of her day".

She said that "no complaints" had been made about how the guidance on this had been interpreted so far.

When pushed about what the restrictions might mean for the Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, given his department's responsibility for the proposed changes to the benefits system for EU migrants, Downing Street said this work was for "after the referendum".

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Steelworkers from across the UK have travelled to Westminster to warn their industry is still in crisis and needs more government backing. 

They will listen to a Commons debate called by Labour in the wake of thousands of job losses blamed on cheap Chinese imports and high energy costs. 

The debate coincides with a steel summit at the European Commission in Brussels. Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community union, says David Cameron needs to match his words of support for the industry with more concrete action. 

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Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has announced he will delay publication of the new Wales Bill until the next parliamentary session later in the year in order to make "significant and substantial changes". 

It follows claims that the legislation was "constitutionally short-sighted," with concern it could undermine powers already held by the Welsh Government and the National Assembly of Wales.

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There has been a sharp fall in spending by the political parties on conventional campaign techniques, such as advertising and TV broadcasts, and an increase in other areas, new research from the Electoral Commission , externalsuggests. The watchdog says advertising as a share of total general election expenditure by parties fell from 37.4% in 2005 to 18.4% in 2015 while spending on party political broadcasts nearly halved from £1.5m in 2010 to £806,000 in 2015. In contrast, spending by political parties on market research and unsolicited material sent to voters rose substantially, accounting for 60% of all outlay in last year's poll. There was also a fall in spending by registered non-party campaigners, such as charities, down from £2.8m in 2010 to £1.7m last year.  

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