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If Tinder is not your thing (see below) what about puppy love?

Campaign group We Are Europe have released a video, external urging people to sign up for a vote in the EU referendum by 7 June deadline featuring a litter of British bulldog puppies.

The cute canines are having a doggie house party (it says here) to celebrate having their say in the EU referendum. But not everyone has been invited!

Across a miniature picket fence sits a sad, solitary puppy who forgot to register and is regretting not having his say.

Dogs getting polling cards now? Has anyone alerted the Electoral Commission? 

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More than 3,000 EU citizens in the UK who are not eligible to take part in the referendum received polling cards for the 23 June vote, the electoral watchdog has admitted.

The Electoral Commission says "according to information it has received so far", 3,462 electors were affected by the mistake.

Leave campaigner Iain Duncan Smith has criticised "lax" protections and a "highly concerning breach of the law".

The former cabinet minister has urged Prime Minister David Cameron to ensure that non-UK EU citizens living in the UK are not able to vote in the referendum.

The commission blamed an issue with elections software used by a number of local authorities in England and Wales for enabling non eligible EU voters to receive polling cards.

A spokesman said it is still waiting to hear if six authorities had also been affected before putting a final number on those affected.

The commission says the software issue has been resolved, "which means that if any postal votes have been issued to these electors, they will be cancelled and none of these electors will be shown as eligible on the electoral registers to be used at polling stations on 23 June".

All those concerned would receive letters telling them they would not be able to vote.  

You can meet the love of your life on it - or you can decide whether the UK should Remain in the EU. Dating app Tinder has introduced a new, temporary feature for users to get involved in the EU referendum campaign.

In collaboration with Bite the Ballot, a youth-led movement to get young people to vote, Tinder has created a true or false quiz covering key topics such as benefits and human rights.

The "Swipe the Vote" feature challenges UK Tinder users to test their knowledge of the EU, external and the divisive subjects surrounding the EU referendum, from state benefits to immigration.

"It's critical millennials - who will play a major part in deciding the Referendum - are aware of the policies in place when they submit their ballots," says Tinder in a blog post, external.

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Families of the 179 British soldiers who died in the Iraq war will not be forced to pay the £767 cost of the forthcoming Chilcot report, Downing Street says.

Number 10 backed down after politicians lined up to criticise the decision not give families a free copy of the 12-volume report, due out on 6 July.

Labour shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry had said it was "beyond insulting" that bereaved families would be made to pay, while Lib Dem leader Tim Farron urged the Ministry of Defence to give them away free.

Later on Friday, a Number 10 spokesman said:

As campaigners take to the airwaves to encourage young people to register to vote in this month's EU referendum, it appears the message might be getting through.

According to Cabinet Office figures, external, 20,093 under 25s registered yesterday - the date of David Cameron's live TV appearance - the fourth highest number since 1 March.

The best day so far for under 25s to register was 18 April - with 45,888 taking part - followed by 39,885 on 12 April, and 22,414 five days later.

The deadline for registering is midnight on Tuesday, 7 June. 

David Cameron and Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson have both been visiting breweries this afternoon to highlight their support for the UK remaining in the EU...The tone of their tweets may be somewhat different but they are both hoping for the same result on 23 June.

Earlier on Friday, Nigel Farage was welcoming the fact that more politicians on the Leave side were visiting pubs, which has been his political stock-in-trade for years. Has the word got through to his opponents?

The Remain campaign cannot "airbrush" out the cost immigration has on jobs, wages, infrastructure and housing, Justice Minister Dominic Raab has said.

There's "no doubt immigration can be a benefit to the economy and society but only if it's controlled", the pro-Brexit campaigner concedes. But he adds:

Mr Raab says his boss, Justice Secretary Michael Gove, is nervous but "excited" about the prospect of setting out "the positive reasons" why the UK can "go it alone" during tonight's live Sky News debate.

Mr Gove will be appearing on Sky News at 20.00 BST.

Labour Leave's John Mills has hit back after JP Morgan Chase said it may have to cut thousands of jobs if the UK leaves the EU.

He told the BBC: "I think a lot depends on what does happen post Brexit, what sort of policies are pursued.

"But if the kind of policies that the Leave campaign's been outlining recently go ahead, then I think the economy would do better outside the EU then inside and therefore there would be more jobs, not less."

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Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has called on the Ministry of Defence to give free copies of the entire Chilcot report to the relatives of the 179 British service personnel who died in Iraq between 2003 and 2009.

After it emerged that relatives, as well as everyone else, will have to pay £767 to get a hard copy of the Iraq Inquiry's full conclusions, Mr Farron said it was completely wrong they were being asked to pay out of their own pockets. 

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Labour MP Ian Wright has questioned whether the boss of Sports Direct is "frightened" and thinks he is "beyond public scrutiny" after saying he will not be attending his Commons committee.

Billionaire Mike Ashley had been ordered to appear in Westminster to give evidence about working practices at the company. 

Mr Ashley told MPs on Thursday he would not be at the hearing because his legal representative is unavailable.

The committee will decide its next steps at the hearing on Tuesday.

Mr Wright, the committee's chairman, said: "We are very disappointed by this eleventh-hour notification, having given him [Mr Ashley] a notice period of three months to make the necessary arrangements."

He added: "Business leaders regularly come before the committee and answer our questions. Sir Philip Green, for example, has agreed to attend as part of our joint inquiry into BHS.

"Does Mr Ashley, owning and operating a business in a parliamentary democracy, see himself as being beyond such public scrutiny? What has he got to be frightened of?" Read more

Reality Check

The claim: The Migration Watch think tank says that between a quarter and half a million refugees and their dependants could come to the UK from 2020 onwards after acquiring EU citizenship.

Reality Check verdict: We could not find clear evidence to support this figure. It is very difficult to predict what future migration flows will look like, as they depend on a number of factors. It can also take a number of years for refugees granted asylum in EU countries to acquire citizenship and apply for EU passports. We don't know how many people granted asylum in the stated period will go on to become citizens of another EU country.

Read the full Reality Check here.

Thousands of young people are abandoning attempts to register to vote in the EU referendum - because they're being asked for their National Insurance number and many can't remember it or find it.

Bite the Ballot, a group working to engage young people in politics, says that between 23-27 May there were more than 3,800 clicks via its website to a government sign-up page.

Of that number the group believes just 10 people successfully registered.

Mike Sani, the chief executive of Bite the Ballot, thinks the drop-off is happening because many people simply can't remember their National Insurance details without a card.

National Insurance numbers can be found on your payslip, P60 or on your student loan form. If people still can't find it, they are given the option on the site to click and request to provide another form of identity.

Politicians can rarely escape an EU campaign visit without a few selfies. George Osborne seems to have got off lightly by agreeing to take part in this "group shot" at the Bournemouth offices of US investment bank JP Morgan Chase. 

All together now...

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Young people were given the star treatment in a stunt to show them how important their vote is in this month's EU referendum.

Unsuspecting passers-by found themselves being cheered on a red carpet moments after agreeing to register their vote.

The stunt was organised by campaign group Wake Up and Vote, external, which is warning young people they only have five days left to register to take part in the vote on 23 June.

One in three 20-24 year olds are unregistered, with many thousands abandoning attempts to do so because they are being asked for their National Insurance number.

Louis Persent, of the Wake Up and Vote campaign, said of the stunt:

The deadline for registering is midnight on Tuesday, 7 June.

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Former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has accused the EU leave camp of treating the campaign "as if they were in an Oxford debating society".

He claims Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Nigel Farage are "using every trick in the book to try and distract and distort their way to victory", adding: "But it is not their livelihoods that are at stake."

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British record labels are strongly backing the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union, a new BPI survey suggests.

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) revealed that over two thirds of surveyed members would prefer the UK remain in the EU.

Of the 133 labels who responded to the question, 67.7% wanted to stay in the EU. A further 19.6% wanted to leave, while 12.8% did not know or opted not to reveal a preference.

The UK's three largest record company groups - Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music - were among the respondents.

Last year, one in four albums sold across Europe was by a British artist. Adele led the way, with other successful British acts including Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Mark Ronson, Sam Smith and One Direction.

Geoff Taylor, chief executive of the BPI and Brit Awards, said:

Labour's Chuka Umunna says the idea that leaving the European Union would make it easier to remove foreign criminals is "for the birds".

He spoke out as a Commons home affairs committee report highlighted Britain's failure to deport 13,000 foreign criminals and suggested it would lead people to "question the point" of the country remaining in the EU. Read more here.

Mr Umunna, who is campaigning for Britain to stay in the EU, says the report's comments on the EU "in no way reflect the views of the entire committee", of which he is a member.

EU mechanisms make it easier for Britain to deport foreign criminals - leaving would mean renegotiating agreements with 27 member states, he says.

Asked if the Labour leader is doing enough to make the case for remaining in the EU, Mr Umunna said: "Jeremy Corbyn is absolutely clear that if you want to see a fairer and better Britain, one in which workers’ rights are respected, and we don't have a race to the bottom, you've got to stay in the EU."

He also said because Mr Corbyn isn't an "EU evangelist", he can speak with more authority on the issue.

More from Nigel Farage, who claims the recent focus on EU immigration represents a "turning point" in favour of Brexit that could spell victory for the out campaign.

Senior Vote Leave Tories' "conversion" to UKIP's long-standing call for a points-based immigration system and David Cameron's rough ride at the hands of TV viewers showed the tide had turned, he says.

Mr Farage accused the prime minister of showing a "sheer level of dishonesty and deception" as he answered voters' questions about controlling the UK's borders in a TV grilling last night. 

Vote Leave - spearheaded by senior Tories Boris Johnson and Michael Gove - came out in favour of imposing an Australian-style points system to control new arrivals if Britain leaves the EU. 

Nigel Farage says David Cameron's "sheer level of dishonesty and deception" over EU immigration will make his job easier in a live debate next week.

The UKIP leader criticised the prime minister for claiming during last night's Sky News debate that the UK could maintain controls on immigration in the EU.

He also hit out at Mr Cameron's change in position from being "the most vocal supporter of Turkey joining the EU", to claiming it will be years before the country can join the bloc.

David Cameron and Nigel Farage will in turn answer questions from a studio audience in a live ITV programme on 7 June.