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A prominent member of the Labour campaign for the UK to stay in the European Union has called on the party to do more to win the referendum.

Labour MP Emma Reynolds said the party’s natural supporters “don’t know which way we are campaigning” and called on her party to show it was united behind remaining in the EU, adding: “We’ve clearly got a lot more work to do.”

She told the BBC News Channel:

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On a visit to Barry earlier, Labour Remain campaigners Alan Johnson and Maria Eagle stopped for an ice cream and a photo opportunity.

Alan Johnson was heard so say: "Boris Johnson does this better than me."

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Following comments from John McDonnell, external that sharing a platform with Conservatives "discredits" Labour, a spokesman for London Mayor Sadiq Khan said:

"It should come as no surprise that Sadiq is campaigning with the prime minister for Britain to remain in the EU, as he made it crystal clear that he would do so throughout the mayoral election.

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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says London Mayor Sadiq Khan "discredited" Labour by sharing a platform with David Cameron, Politics Home, external reports.

Mr McDonnell is reported to have made the comments at a Labour In For Britain event on Monday, when asked by an audience member whether, like Mr Khan, the party should put aside its differences with Mr Cameron to campaign for a Remain vote.

He replied: "The Europe that the Tories want is not our Europe. Cameron went to negotiate away workers' rights in advance of this referendum. If he could have done it, he would have done.

"'If Cameron and his crew are still in power after this referendum they will continue dismantling our welfare state. They will continue to cut benefits, undermine wages and cut public service jobs. This will go on."

Leading Leave campaigners say the UK would be able to scrap VAT on fuel outside the EU - but George Osborne says this is "fantasy economics".

Blogger Guido Fawkes and the New Statesman's political editor claim that citizens of other EU states resident in the UK have received referendum polling cards - despite not being allowed to take part in the EU poll.

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"Public opinion has shifted towards the UK leaving the EU, two Guardian/ICM polls suggest as the referendum campaign picks up pace – with voters split 52%-48% in favour of Brexit, whether surveyed online or by phone," the Guardian, external reports.

"Previous polls have tended to show voters surveyed online to be more in favour of Britain leaving the EU. But in the latest ICM research, carried out for the Guardian, both methodologies yielded the same result – a majority in favour of leaving.

"'Our poll rather unhinges a few accepted orthodoxies," said ICM’s director, Martin Boon:

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Nigel Farage has had to cancel a planned bus visit to Northampton town centre because of protesters.

Protesters and Leave supporters argued in the street as they waited for the UKIP leader to arrive.

Mr Farage was diverted and so never actually attended. He is understood to be visiting a pub in a nearby village.

The Labour in for Britain battle bus rolled into Barry today, carrying former minister Alan Johnson. He thinks voters get "a bit annoyed and frustrated" when the referendum campaign "looks like a Tory leadership contest".

Scotland's Rural Economy Secretary, Fergus Ewing, says the Scottish government is "sorry" about delays processing EU payments to farmers, but said "we are fixing it".

Payments had been affected by major issues with a £178m IT system set up in Scotland to administer the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) payments. Mr Ewing admitted the payments were not made quickly enough.

The government had been urged not to sweep problems surrounding EU payments to farmers "under the carpet".

Ahead of Mr Ewing's Holyrood statement, Scottish Labour said the handling of the process had been "chaotic and shambolic".

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The Northern Ireland Assembly is meeting for the first time since a new team of ministers was appointed to the power-sharing executive.

The executive was formed last week after independent unionist MLA Claire Sugden was appointed as justice minister.

The other posts are shared out between the two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin.

The UUP and SDLP are forming an opposition.

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UKIP leader Nigel Farage was heckled by a local Labour activist on a visit to Birmingham. Luke Holland confronted Mr Farage over his attendance record in the European Parliament, his salary as an MEP and for "blaming immigrants" for the mistakes of bankers. The incident came during an otherwise well-received walk around the Bullring Rag Market.

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Following a poll of fictional characters' views on the EU, external (yes, really) the World at One's panel of Leave and Remain campaigners are asked where they think fictional characters would stand.

The discussion soon embraces historical characters as well, as Remain campaigner Sir Vince Cable says: "I would plump for Henry V because of course, in those days, we used to own France... and the English kings used to speak French. We were really European in those days."

Economist and Leave campaigner Roger Bootle jokes: "On fictional characters, I quite like the idea of Mary Poppins voting to Remain because she would believe that, with a spoonful of sugar, any old medicine would go down."

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BBC Radio 4's the World at One holds a debate on the EU referendum from the Hay Festival. On the panel for Leave are former Defence Secretary Liam Fox and Roger Bootle from Capital Economics, while former Business Secretary Vince Cable and Roland Rudd, chairman of Business for a New Europe represent Remain.

They face a question about the implications of the vote for the next generation - from someone far too young to have vote on 23 June. Nine-year-old Fergus Wilson asks: "How will leaving the EU affect my generation in terms of jobs?"

Roger Bootle tells him the UK would be better out because the EU "makes some very bad decisions" such as forming the euro area, while the employment situation in southern Europe is "a jobs disaster".

Roland Rudd says the UK has "prospered enormously" inside the EU, claiming there is almost full employment at the moment. He argues that the UK is in the "ideal position" of being outside the euro and inside the single market.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage was heckled twice during his walkabout in Birmingham's Bullring. A 19-year-old protester said Mr Farage was a "hypocrite", adding: "You take all the money from the EU then tell us it's all waste. And then what you do is blame immigrants for what the bankers have done. Immigrants built this city."

Responding to the heckler, who complained after being jostled by a UKIP supporter, Mr Farage said: "Oh the victim. It must be awful." Other campaigners could be heard telling the heckler to "go back to school".

After a group of Albanians were rescued off the Kent coast at the weekend, Nigel Farage says: "Those eighteen Albanians must be sent back to France, because if they're not we will get a lot more people coming and we'll start seeing dead bodies on the beaches and everything else."

Mr Farage said boats had been coming "for weeks" but it was only being talked about because a boat had got into trouble.

Asked if a vote to leave the EU would mean less cooperation from across the Channel, Mr Farage said: "There's no cooperation. What cooperation? What are you talking about? Every single day the French turn a blind eye to people getting onto lorries or coming over by boats."

He added: "France should have got rid of them from Calais back to Albania".

The UKIP leader said there had been a "massive cut" in coastguard services over the past two decades and that the UK, as an island, should be able to defend its waters.

During his campaign visit to Birmingham, UKIP Leader Nigel Farage dismissed the Remain camp's attack on the Leave campaign's "fantasy economics".

Mr Farage said: "If we leave the European Union, the world's our oyster. We can do what the hell we like."

Asked if the UK would be able to afford to cut VAT outside the EU, Mr Farage said: "You can do what you like outside the European Union."

Mr Farage cited the example of the so-called tampon tax, saying the prime minister had gone to Brussels a few months ago and "begged" to be allowed to reduce VAT on women's sanitary tax but had failed.

Asked if VAT would drop from 20% or be cut entirely in the event of a Leave vote, Mr Farage said it would be a matter for the British government.

Mr Farage dismissed as "laughable" comments by Business Secretary Sajid Javid that small and medium-sized businesses benefit from being in the EU. He said 95% of the UK's small companies never trade with the EU and that while the EU might be good for big corporations, it was no good for small businesses.

On his tour of Birmingham's Bull Ring shopping centre, UKIP leader Nigel Farage has been visiting one of the UK's largest fresh meat and fish markets. He says regulation is harming the farming and fishing industries. He tells one trader that British anglers aren't allowed to catch any sea bass because only commercial fishing boats are permitted, suggesting this is symptomatic of the lack of control the UK has.