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  1. Row over EU exit 'uncertainty' claimpublished at 08:57 Greenwich Mean Time 29 February 2016

    Ministers are warning of at least 10 years of "uncertainty" if the UK votes to leave the EU - but rival campaigners call the claim "ludicrous".

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  2. Round-up of Sunday storiespublished at 16:34 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

    Here's a recap of the main stories so far this Sunday.

    • The campaign to leave the EU represents hope over pessimism, says Iain Duncan Smith, as he dismisses suggestions a UK exit would be a "leap into the dark".  
    • The work and pensions secretary tells the BBC that leaving would be a "stride into the light", enabling the UK to trade freely and control migration.  
    • Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond defends plans to prevent ministers who oppose EU membership from seeing certain government documents.  
    • Mervyn King, the former Bank of England boss, warns in a new book that another financial crisis is "certain", and may come "sooner rather than later".  
    • Plans to shake-up the way Welsh devolution works need to be put on hold, a committee of MPs has said.  
  3. Listen: Labour MP on racism in the Commonspublished at 15:44 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

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  4. Philip Hammond on reports of clash with Tory MPpublished at 15:33 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

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  5. Will Duncan Smith ignore EU document rules?published at 15:28 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

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  6. Drug-driving arrests 'on the increase' says governmentpublished at 15:21 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

    More drug-drivers are being arrested and convicted since new laws were introduced in England and Wales last year, the government has said.

    The Department for Transport cited figures, external from Cheshire Police that showed arrests there were up 800% to 530 from 70 in the previous year.

    Legislation was brought in covering legal driving limits for 17 illegal and prescription drugs in March 2015.

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  7. Listen: Yanis Varoufakis on Brexit implicationspublished at 15:19 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

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    Former Greek Finance minister on the possible impact to the EU if the UK voted to leave.

  8. Listen: GMB on Trident debatepublished at 15:17 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

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    Gary Smith, the GMB Union's Scotland secretary on political opposition to Trident.

  9. Watch: Angela Eagle says Labour 'united' over Europepublished at 15:07 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

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    Andrew Marr speaks to Shadow First Secretary of State Angela Eagle.

  10. Watch: Iain Duncan Smith on the case for leaving the EUpublished at 15:04 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

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    Andrew Marr speaks to Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith.

  11. Listen: Labour's Browne on Trident debatepublished at 14:59 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

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    Former Labour defence secretary Lord Browne on the future of the UK's nuclear weapons system.

  12. Alan Johnson: Remain 'not snappy enough'published at 12:53 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

    Labour MP Alan Johnson, who is chairing the Labour In for Britain campaign, has admitted that the Remain message is “not snappy enough”. Speaking to the Sunday Politics, he said it is a “complex argument” compared to the Leave campaign which he called “simplistic”.

    The former Home Secretary also admitted there is no guarantee of getting net EU migration down if Britain remains in the European Union.

  13. Lord Howard: Brexit will 'restore our democracy'published at 12:24 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

    The former Conservative leader Lord Howard, who is campaigning to leave the EU, says leaving will be 'an unknown' but he can guarantee that it will restore Britain's democracy.

    Speaking to the Sunday Politics, he says Theresa May is wrong to believe remaining in the EU is important for tackling crime and terror and says the UK would come to an “arrangement” on keeping parts of the European Arrest Warrant if it left the EU.

    He also told Andrew Neil that he finds it “painful” to be on the opposite side of the EU row to David Cameron.

  14. Leaving EU 'a stride into the light'published at 10:22 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

    The campaign to leave the EU represents hope over pessimism, says Iain Duncan Smith, as he dismisses suggestions a UK exit would be a "leap into the dark".

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  15. Hammond defends curbs on EU documentspublished at 04:20 Greenwich Mean Time 28 February 2016

    Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond defends plans to prevent UK ministers who oppose EU membership from seeing certain government documents.

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  16. Farage hoping for UK 'independence day'published at 19:19 Greenwich Mean Time 27 February 2016

    UKIP's Nigel Farage puts the issue of immigration at the centre of his argument for leaving the EU, saying he is hoping for 'independence day' in the UK.

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  17. Cameron brings EU message to NIpublished at 18:09 Greenwich Mean Time 27 February 2016

    Prime Minister David Cameron has been in Northern Ireland as part of his UK tour to persuade voters that membership of a reformed EU is in their best interests.

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  18. Farron urges party to make a differencepublished at 16:57 Greenwich Mean Time 27 February 2016

    The leader of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron tells Scottish party members they must fight to keep the UK within the European Union and challenge the SNP's concentration of power in Holyrood.

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  19. 'Make your voices heard' on Tridentpublished at 16:54 Greenwich Mean Time 27 February 2016

    Jeremy Corbyn addresses crowds at a rally against the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system.

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  20. 'I joined CND before SNP'published at 16:16 Greenwich Mean Time 27 February 2016

    Scotland's First Minister addresses crowds at a rally against the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system.

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