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Falklands War veteran Major General Julian Thompson and former SAS chief General Sir Michael Rose have joined a campaign by serving and retired military personnel to back Brexit.

Major General Thompson says the UK finds itself "dominated by people who we do not elect" in Brussels, and warns the UK is heading towards a unified EU armed force.

But shadow women and equalities minister Kate Green tells the same programme "I don't think it's remotely on the cards" and claims it's "Project Fear" on the part of Leave campaigners.

Energy minister Andrea Leadsom, however, says, that now the EU has the single currency and open borders "the only option for the European project is to move gradually towards a European superstate" which, she says, would require a shared army. While this may not happen next year or in 10 years, she adds, it's "implausible" to suggest UK would not get drawn in to it.

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Defending the independence of the IFS, shadow minister Kate Green - who wants the UK to Remain in the EU - says the organisation is "no-one's friend" and "speaks out without fear or favour".

"It's been a real own goal on the part of Vote Leave" to attack the IFS in the way that it's done, she adds.

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Energy minister Andrea Leadsom, a Vote Leave campaigner, appears to distance herself from the group's criticism of the IFS, saying: "I don't take responsibility for every single remark."

But she says there has been an "institutional ganging up on the poor British voter", who, she says, are the ones that have to deal with consequences of immigration.

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Turning to the subject of the amendment, Angela Eagle says Labour will oppose changes to tuition fees.

She says that "we can't let market forces rip through our universities" and predicts that students could end up facing fees of £55,000 for a three year course.

The proposals set out in the Queen's Speech would allow universities in England to increase tuition fees above the current cap of £9,000 from autumn 2017.

Universities would only be able to increase fees if they can demonstrate that they offer high quality teaching, based on inspections. 

The Teaching Excellence Framework will be introduced to judge teaching quality. 

Education Minister Jo Johnson has said: "Our universities are engines of economic growth and social mobility, but if we are to remain competitive and ensure that a high-quality education remains open to all, we cannot stand still."

National Unions of Students (NUS) vice president Sorana Vieru said that students would be "understandably be outraged". 

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Angela Eagle offers a few words to describe the Queen's Speech: "sparse, threadbare, pretty thin gruel, bland, uninspiring and vacuous".

"And that was just the verdict of the Conservative's underwhelmed backbenchers,"  she adds

Conservative MP James Cartlidge intervenes to ask if she considers the national living wage to be "nothing".

Angela Eagle describes the wage as "a con" which "describes itself as something that it is not".

The National Living Wage sets a minimum wage for over-25s at £7.20 per hour - to rise to £9 an hour by 2020. It is different from the Living Wage which calculates the level of pay needed to give workers a sufficient salary for a basic standard of living. This is set at £8.25.

Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns has clashed with fellow Conservative MPs over next month's EU vote.

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Economist Andrew Lillico says the UK would be better off outside the EU and says the EU would be able to "function better", too because it  "would be able to control the EU's institutions to solve its governance issues".

He says he thinks it "very odd" the idea that the EU was economically valuable to UK had "any headway at all" in this campaign. He says the Leave campaign's argument on the economy should be saying that if the EU was so good for jobs why is unemployment in countries such as Spain so high.

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Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Mike Read has questioned why the Brexit campaign group Leave.EU didn't book pro-Leave supporters for a live pop gig - rather than a line-up that does not want to be associated with a political event.

Boy bands 5ive and E17, along with singer Alesha Dixon, have pulled out of the BPop Live gig in Birmingham on 19 June.

Both 5ive's and Alesha Dixon's management said they had made the decision after realising the concert was "more a political rally".

But Mike Read, who was forced to withdraw a song he wrote in support of UKIP following complaints that it was racist, told BBC2's Daily Politics:

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Vote Leave has come under fire from its own side for accusing the IFS of being a "propaganda arm" of the European Commission, after the IFS said Britain could face two more years of austerity if there's a vote to leave the EU.

Andrew Lillico, chairman of Economists for Britain, a Vote Leave-affiliated body which wants the UK to leave the EU, defends the independence of the IFS.

He says it's normal for referendum campaigning to be negative "but there's a difference between that and accusing people of ill-intent and being corrupt", he said, adding: "I just don't believe that's true of the IFS."

Asked if he thinks Vote Leave's criticism was wrong, he says: "I think it was mistaken", and says it was an "administrative error" and was "not meant to be in the press release".

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A busy day for shadow business secretary Angela Eagle as she is back at the dispatch box speaking to Labour's amendment to the Speech

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Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock says "there isn't going to be an EU army", following claims by Veterans for Brexit - a group of ex-military officers fighting for EU exit - that there will be.

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A lengthy PMQs ends and debate on the Queen's Speech resumes. Today's theme is education, skills and training. 

The government will be introducing an Education for All Bill which will apply, for the most part, in England.

This bill extends powers enabling the government to turn schools into academies; however the government stopped short of its original plan to convert all schools.

The bill also introduces a new national funding formula for schools.

There is also the Higher Education and Research Bill which will make it easier to set up new universities and introduces a new teaching framework.

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Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock defends the appointment of the UK TV version of the Apprentice's host Lord Sugar as enterprise tsar, saying the Amstrad founder "repeatedly meets business people" and "entrepreneurs who try to get businesses going".

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says she is sure the appointment has nothing to do with Lord Sugar's comment that he is no longer associated with the Labour Party, adding that "these things often don't end well".

Labour's Gisella Stuart jokes that she is "trying to come to terms" with the former Labour supporting peer working for a Conservative government.

For non-students of TV formats, the Apprentice in the US was hosted by a certain Donald Trump, whose move into the political sphere is currently rather higher profile than Lord Sugar's. 

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Anne Main, a Conservative MP, raises a point of order attacking the government's record on answering questions she has asked relating to the EU referendum debate. She has effectively been told "talk to the hand", she says. In reply Speaker John Bercow says the Business department should have provided answers and says he does not want to use the word "shameful" but says its performance in responding to the questions has been unsatisfactory.

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With the session over (rather belatedly) it is time to go back to the Daily Politics where BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg is giving her analysis of today's PMQs. Laura says the chancellor mentioned the nuclear deterrent Trident to put forward a tricky issue for the Labour Party.

Labour's leader Jeremy Corbyn wants to get rid of it, she says, which is at odds with some of his MPs.

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Former Conservative minister Bernard Jenkin - a Vote Leave campaigner - asks the chancellor if he is aware the Commons public administration committee has published three legal opinions from Speaker's Council "which make it perfectly clear that it's illegal for government to keep its pro-EU propaganda up on its website" during the so-called purdah period ahead of the EU referendum. (the purdah period starts on Friday)

Mr Osborne replies that MPs should "debate the substance rather than the process," so the British people will have a range of opinions on which they can make up their own minds.