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

  1. Reality Check: How hard is it to win Vote Leave's football contest?published at 21:26 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    Picture with Vote Leave quote: Predict the European Championships and win £50m - the amount we send to the EU every single day."Image source, Vote Leave

    The claim: Anyone can win £50 million by correctly predicting the result of all 51 games in the Euro 2016 football championships. Vote Leave says this figure represents the amount of money the UK sends to the EU every day.

    Reality Check verdict: Unlikely anyone could win this prize. The odds of winning are only slightly better than the odds of guessing the mobile phone numbers of the next two strangers you see in the street. The UK does not send £50 million a day to the EU.

    More here.

  2. Brexit question most searched on Google about EU referendumpublished at 20:36 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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    Google has revealed its top 10 searches from people in Wales about the EU referendum.

    The most widely searched for question so far in 2016 is: What is 'Brexit'?

    Other popular questions searched for included How much would Wales lose as a result of Brexit? What laws can the EU make? and What does the EU referendum mean for Wales?

    Voters will go to the polls on 23 June to decide whether Britain should remain in the EU or not.

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  3. EU referendum: A 'gut-feeling' decision?published at 20:34 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    Political editor Nick Servini says the EU referendum passes the pub test, which is not something you can say that often about big political stories.

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  4. 'Not much contrition' over MPs' criticism of Leave and Remain campaignspublished at 20:03 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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    Both sides in the EU referendum campaign have been accused of peddling "misleading" figures and "implausible assumptions" by a committee of MPs.

    The Treasury Select Committee calls Vote Leave's claim that Brexit would save £350m a week "deeply problematic". And it says Remain's claims families would be worse off by £4,300 a year if Britain quit the EU were "mistaken" and had "probably confused" voters.

    BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed says he's spoken to senior figures in both campaigns and "there's not a lot of contrition around".

    For Leave, he says, it's because they think the £350m a week figure "is a winner" and cuts through to the public. For Remain, they say the criticisms are far harsher for the Leave campaign than them, he adds.

  5. Boris Johnson: Brexit would open door for more Commonwealth migrantspublished at 19:55 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    Writing for The Muslim News, external, Boris Johnson said leaving the EU would allow Britain to "take back control of our borders" and mean that more immigrants from the Commonwealth to come to the UK.

    He said:

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    I think it's fair that we shouldn't be straitjacketed into an immigration policy that favours a person based on where they were born geographically regardless of how much they want to contribute to society or what their skills are. So if we need the best and brightest talent then that talent should be able to come here from countries like India, Pakistan, Australia, or New Zealand. Immigration yes, uncontrolled immigration, no."

    Boris Johnson

    Mr Cameron contested the Leave side's claims, telling the Muslim News:

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    The idea they would lobby for a big increase in non-EU migration if we were to leave the EU is ridiculous. It simply won't happen. They are basing their whole campaign on attacking migration - not on replacing European migration with migrants from South Asia."

    David Cameron

  6. PM: Leave campaign painting Turks as criminals and terroristspublished at 19:00 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    David Cameron has criticised the tone of the Leave campaign, saying it is being offensive to Muslims by painting Turkish people as "criminals and terrorists".

    In an interview with The Muslim News,, external the prime minister and Remain campaigner said:

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    I do find it concerning the way that the Leave campaign are talking about Turkish people in this referendum. Some of the material they are putting out, painting Turkish people as criminals or terrorists, is frankly appalling. Many British Muslims will be offended by the way they are trying to frighten people. I think it's a sign of desperation."

    Those arguing for an EU exit, including former London mayor Boris Johnson and Justice Secretary Michael Gove, have warned that Turkey could become an EU membership within four years.

    But Mr Cameron said any decision on Turkish accession to the EU would require "unanimous agreement" of all member states, and said: "We all have a veto."

  7. Boris Johnson 'confuses fact and fiction', says former Tory party chairmanpublished at 18:40 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    Lord Patten

    Boris Johnson does not seem to understand "the difference between fact and fiction", former Tory chairman Lord Patten has told BBC Newsnight.

    Lord Patten, who supports the UK remaining in the EU, said Mr Johnson, a prominent Leave campaigner, "just makes it up as he goes along".

    He also said it would be "very difficult" for David Cameron to remain leader if the UK voted to leave the EU.

    Mr Johnson has said voters want proper debate, "not personal attacks".

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  8. Reality Check: Is immigration out of control?published at 17:51 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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  9. Reality Check: Have the campaigns been fair with figures?published at 17:47 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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    The Claim: The two sides in the EU referendum campaign have been accused of peddling "misleading" figures and "implausible assumptions" by a committee of MPs.

    Reality Check verdict:There is growing acceptance that both sides could be clearer aboutthe figures they're using to support their arguments.

    The Treasury Select Committee has criticised both sides in the EU Referendum campaign for peddling "misleading" figures and "implausible assumptions".

    Its chair, Andrew Tyrie, told BBC News: "What we really need is an end to the arms race of ever more lurid claims and counter-claims made by both sides."

    The Reality Check team has been keeping an eye on how both sides have been using numbers throughout the campaign.

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  10. Vote Leave: 'Our £350m EU figure is a matter of fact'published at 17:42 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    More on those pesky EU figures ... Vote Leave's Robert Oxley says the campaign's claim that the UK sends £50m a day, or £350m a week, to the EU are a "matter of fact" and an "official statistic".

    He urges people to "go into the account of the ONS (Office for National Statistics) and it's right there".

    "Money comes back, it does come back, but we don't have control of it", he says.

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    Just because some of that money, after it's been through the cogs of bureaucracy in Brussels, comes back - that's not a good reason to stay in. There isn't a magical money tree in Brussels that's creating European money - it's money that's come out of British taxpayers' wallets."

    He accuses Chancellor George Osborne of "confusing" the electorate with "ludicrous claims cooked up in the Treasury".

  11. Conservative MP: Remain's EU figures 'misintepreted'published at 17:31 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    Mark Garnier

    Conservative MP and Remain campaigner Mark Garnier says statistics used by his side been "misinterpreted" by commentators.

    He made the claims after Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the influential  Commons Treasury select committee, criticised both the Remain and Leave campaigns over their use of figures.

    The committee's report cites Remain's claim that families would be £4,300 a year worse off if Britain was outside the EU as having "probably confused" voters.

    But Mr Garnier, who is a member of the committee, says the figures "can be misconstrued -but they are not wrong".

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    The report does not find that the In campaign's figures are wrong. They find that the Out campaign's figures are wrong. If a group finds that its figures are either being misconstrued or are being accused of being wrong - as the £350 million is being accused - they must respond to that in terms of having a honest and open and understandable debate."

    Mr Garnier concedes that the Remain campaign must explain its figures better but says they are "right".

  12. Everybody needs good neighbours... but not over the EUpublished at 17:21 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    These north London neighbours appear to be at odds over the UK's future in the EU.

    They've nailed their colours to the mast - or rather, the balconies, of their flats in Gospel Oak.

    Block of flats with opposing posters in Gospel Oak, north LondonImage source, AP
  13. Fisheries minister defends £350m claimpublished at 17:16 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    Fisheries Minister George Eustice, who supports leaving the EU, has defended Vote Leave's argument that Brexit would save £350m a week as a "fair claim to make".

    He told the BBC he didn't think it was misleading because the reality was, the UK did send that amount to the EU every week.

    He says he has never denied that "about half" of that comes back to the UK - but adds that it was "with strings attached".

    If the UK leaves the EU, it would be free to spend that money on its priorities, he says.

    The minister says he is "uncomfortable" about the way the "government machine" has been "thrown behind" the Remain side, adding that now the purdah period has begun, there would be a "more balanced" contest.

  14. Nigel Farage: UK's net EU bill is £34m a daypublished at 17:02 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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    Nigel Farage

    UKIP leader Nigel Farage has refused to be drawn on whether he thinks Vote Leave's claim the UK pays £350 million a week to the EU is "misleading".

    Instead Mr Farage, who is not part of the official Vote Leave campaign but is campaigning for "Brexit", told the BBC:

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    I always say the same thing - that our net bill for European Union membership is £34 million a day. Fact. Government pink book statistics. And I stick to that and that's unarguable."

  15. Watch: A hug from the chancellor for SNP MP?published at 16:53 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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  16. Pollster: Over-65s 'hard nut for Remain to crack'published at 16:41 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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    A leading polling expert has said he would be very surprised if a majority of people over the age of 65 do not vote to leave the European Union.

    Professor John Curtice says older people are one of the "hardest nuts" for the Remain campaign to crack.

    On Thursday the Treasury warned Brexit would leave pensioners worse off- a claim rejected by the Leave side.

    Meanwhile a new EU poll suggests Remain and Leave are level pegging in Wales, with little change.

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  17. Watch: Vote Leave offer £50m prize for euro football betspublished at 16:23 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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  18. Treasury report shows Vote Leave are 'charlatans' says Remain campaignpublished at 15:49 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

    Wes Streeting

    Britain Stronger in Europe has its say on the Treasury Committee's EU report,, external claiming that it "savages" the Vote Leave campaign.

    Pro-Remain Labour MP Wes Streeting said:

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    The committee’s report has confirmed everyone’s suspicions about Vote Leave – that they are a bunch of charlatans who mislead the British people and treat parliamentary democracy with contempt."

    Britain Stronger in Europe's press release says the committee described the conduct of Vote Leave’s two senior figures, Matthew Elliott and Dominic Cummings as "appalling”.

    It continues: "Remarkably, the report was signed off by two of the committee’s members, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Steve Baker, who are leading members of Vote Leave."

  19. Watch: Chilcot Report debate - Oborne, Rentoul and Murraypublished at 15:44 British Summer Time 27 May 2016

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    Ahead of the 6 July publication of the findings of the inquiry into the Iraq War, Peter Oborne has published his alternative findings in Not the Chilcot Report.

    Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil introduced a clip of the former prime minister, before a debate with Mr Oborne, Jenni Murray of the Times, and John Rentoul, a long-term defender of Tony Blair's role.

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    Peter Oborne, John Rentoul and Jenni Murray on the Chilcot Report and Iraq War.

  20. Labour leaders hit the EU Remain campaign trailpublished at 15:43

    You know how it is - you wait to hear from one Labour leader, then two come along at once... Here are Labour leaders past - Ed Miliband - and present - Jeremy Corbyn - hitting the campaign trail for the UK to stay in the EU.

    Jeremy Corbyn (left) and his predecessor Ed Miliband visit Vulcan RenewablesImage source, PA
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    Say cheese: Jeremy Corbyn takes a quick selfie as he and Ed Miliband tour a biogas renewable plant near Doncaster

    Jeremy Corbyn and Ed MilibandImage source, PA
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    On the move: Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband chat on board the Labour In for Britain bus

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    Jeremy Corbyn enjoys a cuppa ... in a Labour In for Britain mug

    Ed Miliband and Jeremy CorbynImage source, PA
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    That was me once: Ed Miliband looks on as his successor explains why Labour backs Remain

    Jeremy CorbynImage source, PA
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    A sea of red: Labour In for Britain rally with banners and balloons in Doncaster