Summary

  • The UK faces an extra £2.4bn bill from Brussels if it remains part of the EU, Boris Johnson says

  • David Cameron warns an EU exit could push up mortgage rates

  • Leave campaigners say the UK could be pushed into future eurozone bailouts if it stays in the EU

  • Former PM Sir John Major attacks the "squalid" and "deceitful" campaign to get the UK out of the EU

Live Reporting

Aiden James and Jackie Storer

  1. George Osborne: OECD report describing 'the real world'

    Chancellor George Osborne comments on the OECD's report that the UK's economy would suffer "a large negative shock" if it left the EU.

    He says there is "a contrast today between the Leave campaign with their fantasy politics, unworkable proposals that will increase immigration, take us out of the single market and cost us jobs and the reality check in the real world with the highly respected OECD, which points out the grim economic future for the UK outside of the EU".

    He adds:

    The hit to people’s living standards will be strongly negative if we do vote to leave and you have today the business experts and the trade unions all telling us that Britain will be poorer if we vote to leave the EU."

  2. 'Very concerning' that voters don't know Labour's EU position

    A You Gov poll has indicated that two thirds of undecided voters do not know Labour's policy on Brexit...and almost half of Labour voters do not know it either.

    Labour's Deputy Leader - Tom Watson - told Martha Kearney the party needed to work harder to get its message across, that Britain should stay in the EU.

    (Photo: Labour's Deputy Leader Tom Watson. Credit: PA)

  3. What is the cost of EU regulations?

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  4. Tom Watson: Labour needs to 'redouble efforts' to campaign for Remain

    The World at One
    BBC Radio 4

    Tom Watson says Labour needs to “redouble our efforts” to explain why it is right to stay within the Eropean Union, adding that Labour would seek to negotiate additional workers' rights in the EU.

    The Labour deputy leader says Jeremy Corbyn has been criticised unfairly for not campaigning more vigorously when he had done “speech after speech after speech and visit after visit after visit”.

    Mr Watson tells the World at One that he "would never share a platform with David Cameron and George Osborne" to campaign for Remain.

    Our reasons for saying Remain are very different."

  5. PM 'has no plans' to meet Trump during UK visit

    Mark D'Arcy
    Parliamentary Correspondent

    Downing Street has said that the prime minister has no plans to meet Donald Trump on his forthcoming visit to the UK. There is a convention that the PM will meet Republican or Democratic nominees for president - but neither party has yet officially nominated their candidate. So the PM’s comment at the G7, that no date has been set for a meeting, still stands.

  6. Tom Watson: Labour supporters' interests lie with EU worker protection

    The World at One
    BBC Radio 4

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    Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson tells the World at One that the Leave campaign are trying to turn the EU vote into "a referendum on British immigration policy".

    Leave campaigners Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are acting like "an alternative government in waiting", Mr Watson adds.

    He argues that Labour supporters and trade unionists' "interests lie with basic workers' protections across the single market" inside the EU.

    "There is no doubt that people are concerned about freedom of movement," he says. However, he claims there would be "no unfettered access" to the single market without signing up to "movement of labour obligations".

  7. Donald Trump to visit UK on day after EU vote

    Donald Trump

    Donald Trump has announced he is to visit Scotland on the day after the EU referendum.

    The US presidential contender plans to attend the opening his Trump Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire.

    "I own it and I am very proud of it. I look forward to attending the official opening of this great development on June 24," Mr Trump said in a press release.

    The press release also says the revamp of the resort includes 103 hotel rooms, a "£3,500 per night two bedroom, presidential suite" and - coming soon - the 500-person capacity Donald J. Trump Ballroom.

  8. Will the UK have to pay billions in tax refunds?

    Reality Check

    Vote Leave saying: “We will have to pay out up to £43 billion in tax refunds to multinational businesses.”

    The claim: Vote Leave says membership of the EU means the UK will have to pay out up to £43bn in tax refunds to multinational businesses.

    Reality Check verdict: The £43bn figure is not a definite commitment, it is what HMRC considers to be the most the UK might have to pay. It could be significantly lower depending on the outcome of current court cases. We don't know how much of it is connected to EU membership.

    Read the full Reality Check here.

  9. Would Brexit cut wages by £38 per week?

    TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady says working people will be £38 a week worse off if we leave. Is she right?

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  10. Rail employee suspended over Vote Leave message

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    South West Trains has suspended an employee after a message appearing to support Brexit was put up on the side of a train.

    The words "Vote Leave" appeared on a digital sign in the window of a Woking-bound train yesterday.

    South West Trains say that the company has "no position" on the issue of the upcoming EU referendum. In a statement, it said. 

    The EU referendum is a matter for the electorate. Anything that has appeared on one of our trains related to this has been without our knowledge or authorisation. We can confirm that a South West Trains employee has been suspended as part of an internal investigation into this matter."

  11. Momentum activist 'blocked' from standing for Labour's NEC

    A Labour activist and member of the Momentum pressure group has claimed that she was blocked from standing for the party's National Executive Committee after an intervention by the former Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy.

    Rhea Wolfson said she sought the support of her local party in Eastwood Glasgow to contest the NEC seat but that party members decided not to back her following a closed-doors meeting in which they were addressed by Mr Murphy - the former MP for the constituency.

    She suggested Mr Murphy told party members not to endorse the GMB union member because of her involvement with Momentum, a Jeremy Corbyn supporting campaign group, and concerns that the group had links to reported anti-Semitic comments currently being investigated by the party. 

    She said she enjoyed wide support in the party but was being opposed by what she described as a "faction". 

    Needless to say, this is hugely disappointing. It is disappointing because I am the only Jewish candidate in this election, because the wide range of organisations endorsing me includes the Jewish Labour Movement, and because I have a long record of challenging anti-Semitism and have in fact faced it on a daily basis since my candidacy was announced. But above all, it is disappointing because I know there are many members who want to vote for me, who could now have lost that opportunity. I am considering my options going forward."

  12. Gove: Immigration rules 'plain unfair'

    Michael Gove

    Justice Secretary Michael Gove says the Australian-style points system for immigration put forward by Vote Leave would give greater control over the UK's borders and be fairer for everyone.

    Last year 77,000 EU migrants came to the UK without a job and were able to use public services, he said. 

    Under the Australian system he said the UK could allow in skilled workers who would add to the UK’s economic growth and address what he said was a bias in the system against migrants from the likes of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh 

    If we have an Australian points based system then we can decide who comes here. At the moment we discriminate against people from outside the European Union. I think that’s plain unfair.”

    He played down suggestions he and Boris Johnson were touting what amounted to an alternative manifesto for government, saying the policy and others could be implemented by David Cameron to "ensure the promises that’s he’s made and that we all believe in could be implemented”.

  13. TUC boss calls for 'more balanced' EU debate

    BBC News Channel

    Trades Union Congress General Secretary Frances O'Grady has said the UK leaving the EU would be a "very, very big gamble with rights, jobs and pay". 

    Ms O'Grady told the BBC News Channel that leaving the EU would mean trusting a Conservative government to protect working people's rights and a lot of their members "simply don't trust them to do that".

    She said the TUC had listened to its members at BMW, Airbus, Siemens and manufacturing companies around the UK who had said that leaving the EU would mean losing orders, investment and good, highly paid, highly-skilled jobs.

    Asked if she had heard enough from the Labour leadership about the case for staying in the EU, Ms O'Grady said.

    Certainly it would be good always to hear a more balanced debate. This isn't just a battle for the future of the leadership of the Conservative Party. It's much, much more important than that. It's about the future of the country."

  14. OECD report 'flawed and partisan' says Vote Leave

    The OECD's warning of a slump in trade and a slowdown in economic growth if the UK leaves the EU has been dismissed as "flawed" by Vote Leave. 

    John Longworth, the former chief executive of the British Chambers of Commerce and Leave supporter, said it relied on "assumptions" that were not shared by other economists. 

    The most important finding in today’s report is the acknowledgment that the UK economy will continue to grow after we vote to leave the EU...Instead of listening to partisan advisory bodies, let’s look at what businesses are actually telling us: that the costly red tape and regulations emanating from Brussels are constraining their ability to innovate and create jobs."

  15. PCS union to stay neutral in EU referendum

    The PCS union say they decided at their conference last week not to take a formal position in favour of either Leave or Remain in the referendum.

    Instead the union, which represents about 200,000 public sector workers, will put out materials on the various arguments to their members from next week.

    Most unions have publicly backed the Remain camp. 

  16. UKIP's Douglas Carswell backs system of annual work visas

    BBC News Channel

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    UKIP MP and Leave campaigner Douglas Carswell has been answering viewers' questions about the EU referendum on the BBC News Channel. 

    Asked what would be an acceptable level of inward immigration once the UK left the EU, he declines to give a specific figure but argues it would be up to ministers to decide how many visas to issue each year and to get the support of Parliament for that.  

    In doing so, they would need to take into account "how the overall economy is doing and the demands of industry" - an approach he says would be "fair and reasonable".

    He says he does not see why other EU nations would respond by insisting UK citizens need permits to work there although he says he cannot foresee what, for instance, the Spanish government might do in 20 years time. 

  17. Council apology after residents sent two postal votes

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    Nearly 120 people in Oxfordshire have been urged not to try and vote twice in the EU referendum after they were mistakenly sent duplicate postal ballots. 

    South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District Council said a small number of residents of the towns of Henley and Abingdon had received two postal ballots due to an error by the firm printing them.

    Council chief executive David Buckle said the "minor blip" had been spotted almost immediately and he had written to all those involved to apologise and to remind them they can only return one of the ballot papers.

    If someone does return both packs there is no possibility of their vote being counted twice. We have a sophisticated computer system for processing returned postal votes that will reject any duplicate. I hope no one does this as it is an offence to attempt to vote more than once in the referendum."

    The council said it had already issued 25,000 postal vote packs and was currently receiving about 400 applications every day.

  18. Scottish MP faces second police investigation

    MP Natalie McGarryPA

    Scottish MP Natalie McGarry is facing a second police probe into alleged financial discrepancies.

    Police Scotland confirmed it had received a report which is understood to be linked to the SNP's Glasgow regional association.

    Ms McGarry withdrew from the SNP party whip last November after a first police investigation was launched.

    She denies any wrongdoing and her solicitor said she would co-operate with any inquiry. Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "We can confirm that police have received a report and inquiries are continuing."  Read more

  19. Students and the EU referendum

    BBC Radio 5 Live

    Almost two thirds of university students in Manchester are unaware of the EU referendum date, according to recent research.

    How aware are students about the impending vote on the UK's future in the European Union? BBC Radio 5live's Phil Williams has been speaking to undergraduates at Salford University. 

  20. Current UK immigration system 'arguably racist'

    The author of UKIP's general election manifesto has backed calls for Britain to operate an Australian-style points system for immigration if it votes to leave the European Union.

    The idea is being promoted by the Conservative Vote Leave members, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

    Suzanne Evans, who is currently suspended from UKIP following an internal dispute, says the proposal was part of UKIP's 2015 election prospectus.

    We already have an Australian-style points system for non-EU migrants coming to Britain. The current immigration system is grotesquely unfair. I argue it's even racist because it prioritises white Europeans over anybody else from the rest of the world. It's got to change."