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. Michael Gove: 'Nervous' about putting Vote Leave point of view

    Michael GovePA

    After all the commentary about David Cameron's appearance on Sky News, Justice Secretary Michael Gove admits to feeling a bit "nervous" as he prepares to give the pro-Brexit view in a similar programme tonight.

    I've never done anything like this before, but the main thing is I have been chosen to make sure that people have a chance to hear the Vote Leave message, so the main thing that I want do is to try to get across the essence of our case."

    Mr Gove says he hopes to be challenged about how "life will be a bit different and better if we were outside the European Union, and I'm sure there will be some worries from members of the audience about what leaving might mean".

    I hope to be able to paint a positive picture of life outside and allay people's fears."

  2. Reality Check: The EU and workers' rights

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  3. PM: Don't lock ourselves out of the body that makes the rules

    ITV

    David Cameron being interviewed on ITV's Good Morning BritainITV's Good Morning Britain

    David Cameron has reiterated his belief that he can continue as prime minister despite the EU debate igniting opposing passions within his party.

    He says it's important the public know the government is "not impartial" in its belief that it is "in Britain's interests we'll be safer, we'll be stronger and crucially, we'll be better off" by staying in the EU.

    He says despite disagreeing with pro-Leave campaigner Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland secretary, he hasn't stopped sitting down with opposing Cabinet ministers to talk about the big issues.

    Of course there are passionate arguments, but I think actually it's perfectly possible to hold a referendum, have a result and then get on with the job of governing the country."

    He rejects claims that he's been scaremongering with dire warnings of what could happen post Brexit, saying it was a "pretty unique" that "all of the national and international organisations", plus nine out of 10 economists, say it would be "a shock to the British economy".

    He says Britain should be around the EU table writing the rules. "If we're not there the rules will be written by the Germans and the French". That would not be more control, but less control, he says.

    It would be a very bad thing for the world's fifth biggest economy to do - to lock yourself out of the body that makes the rules that affect your life."

  4. More resources needed for borders, says Farage

    LBC

    Nigel Farage talks about Dymchurch, in Kent, where he's been campaigning, and concerns that traffickers are using the town as a gateway to smuggle migrants into the UK. 

    "We don't seem to have the resolve as a nation to do this. We've cut back our coastguard service hugely," he tells LBC radio.

    The UKIP leader says "we are going to have to put resource into policing our borders" - because of the "numbers" issue, but also for security reasons in an age of international terrorism.

    In his final question, Mr Farage is asked if he will campaign alongside the main Vote Leave Conservative figures - Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. 

    He replies: "I'm prepared to work with anybody within reason for a show of unity" but add they "don't appear to want to have anything to do with me". 

    However he predicts he will appear with Mr Gove and Mr Johnson before the close of the campaign adding: "I think there will be an outbreak of common sense".

  5. Farage: I don't believe a word PM says

    LBC

    On immigration, Nigel Farage wants an Australian-style points system, he tells LBC. The Australians don't want people aged over 45, he says: "So that's us out," he jokes to LBC host Nick Ferrari. 

    He says right now the UK has to build a house every four minutes to cope with the number of immigrants. "We've got to get a grip" on the issue, Mr Farage says.

    Mr Farage criticises Mr Cameron, who has backed Turkey's membership of the EU in the past for distancing himself from it on last night's Sky News Q&A.

    "I don't believe a single word this man says any more," Mr Farage says. He says Angela Merkel is the "real boss" of the EU and Turkey will become an EU member.

  6. Cameron 'calling in his EU mates', says UKIP leader

    LBC

    As his LBC phone-in continues, Mr Farage says some jobs will be lost if we leave the EU as all the UK MEPs will have to go: "I'm the turkey voting for Christmas." 

    He says while three million UK jobs are linked to trade with the EU - 5.5 million jobs in the rest of Europe are linked to trade with the UK: "We are now the Eurozone's biggest export market".

    On German Chancellor Angela Merkel's intervention yesterday, Mr Farage says we took "unkindly" to the US President "telling us what to do" and would be even less kindly to Mrs Merkel doing the same.

    "Dave is calling in his mates from all over Europe to say 'please stay'," he says.

  7. David Cameron: EU campaign raises 'very high passions'

    ITV

    David Cameron said he isn't surprised that the EU referendum debate has sparked "high passions", but hopes to bring his party back together after 23 June into a "radical, reforming government with a growing economy".

    Responding to claims that the campaign has seen the Conservative party tearing itself apart, he says:

    It's a very vigorous debate and I'm not surprised by that for a moment. It raises very high passions, but I think we're a grown up enough democracy that we can have this passionate debate where the public - the people - will decide, not the politicians, and then we accept the result, we accept the instructions of the public, and then we come back together again and form what I want to be a radical, reforming government with a growing economy and all that that can lead to."

  8. David Cameron: NHS won't benefit from leaving EU

    ITV

    Speaking earlier to ITV's Good Morning Britain, David Cameron said he wanted to "nail the myth" that coming out of the EU will mean millions of pounds more can be spent on the NHS.

    If we come out of the single market and damage our economy we will be less able to have a strong health service and strong schools... If we come out of the EU and we have a smaller economy and fewer jobs, we'll have less money to spend on public services - according to the Treasury research, £36bn less. Half of immigration comes from outside the EU - we need to better at controlling that. "

    People need to heed warnings from the heads of service industries who claim leaving the EU would put jobs at risk, he added. 

    If you are out of the single market, you then have to establish yourself in another European country to sell your services ... that means jobs would move from our country to the European Union that we'd just left."

  9. 'Questions' over polling cards error, says Farage

    LBC

    Nigel Farage is now asked about reports that EU citizens who are not eligible to vote in the EU referendum have been sent polling cards and postal votes.

    He says "there are questions" about those polling cards which, "let's be generous - may be administrative errors" but also wider questions about whether the PM is conducting a "fair" and "free" referendum.

    Asked how serious the polling cards issue is, Mr Farage says it depends on the scale - if a million have been sent out "we may have a problem".

  10. Farage to board trawler in fishing protest

    LBC

    Nigel Farage says on 15 June he'll be boarding "a small trawler at Southend on Sea" at 05.00 BST as part of a flotilla arriving in Westminster at midday - to demand "our waters back".

    Asked on LBC if Boris Johnson and Michael Gove will be joining him, he says he's mentioned it to them so "we'll see". 

    Former MP Bob Spink has set the whole thing up he says. Mr Farage says virtually everyone in the fishing industry backs Brexit.

  11. 'No reform' in EU, says Nigel Farage

    LBC

    Nigel FarageLBC

    A caller to LBC radio asks why the Leave campaign isn't making more of the damage the EU has done to the fishing industry and the "poor deal" David Cameron got in his recent negotiations and also the failure of financial institutions to make accurate predictions in the past.

    Mr Farage says there is "no reform in the European Union", there is only a "minor fiddling around" and says he wants to throw something at the TV when he hears the PM talking about it.

    He says the European Parliament can strike down Mr Cameron's "legally binding" deal.

  12. 'Big swing' in EU campaign, says Farage

    LBC

    Nigel Farage speaking to LBC's Nick FerrariLBC

    UKIP Leader Nigel Farage is on LBC radio. He says there's been a "big swing" in the debate and that the PM had a "rotten time of it" on the Sky programme last night.

    He says he's been "treated as a pariah" for "daring" to speak about immigration yet UKIP had gone from a "relatively fringey" party to one that won the European elections with millions of supporters.

    Now we've got some "big hitters" on the theme of immigration - a reference to other party politicians like Boris Johnson and Frank Field - the debate is at a turning point, the UKIP leader says.

  13. David Cameron: Leaving the EU would cost the UK jobs

    ITV

    Continuing his defence of immigration numbers, David Cameron says his negotiations in Europe mean that people who cannot find a job will be sent home. They will not receive unemployment benefit while they are in the UK - and if they get a job, they have to wait four years before they get full access to the welfare system, he says. He tells ITV's Good Morning Britain:

    That, I think, is a better change to make than what the Leave campaign says, which is to leave the single market, which I think would really cost more jobs."

  14. David Cameron: 'Immigration is a challenge'

    David CameronITV's Good Morning Britain

    Good morning - I'm taking over live commentary for the day. If you scroll down you can catch up on my colleagues' coverage of the big David Cameron interview on Sky last night. Thursday was a busy day and once again I'll be bringing you all the latest developments over the next few hours...

    The prime minister has already been quizzed on ITV's Good Morning Britain about immigration, which he accepts is "a challenge".

    It's made more of a challenge by the fact our economy has been growing and we've been successful and people have come to work here."

    Asked if this means the UK has to have a bad economy to put off incomers, Mr Cameron retorts:

    I think wrecking our economy by coming out of the European single market and hitting businesses and jobs and our economy - that would be a terrible way of trying to deal with this issue."

  15. Interventions by international politicians are 'friendly warnings' - Polish ex-minister

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Radek SikorskiAFP

    Leaving the EU would be a "mistake" for Britain and rob allies of a "vital voice" at the table in Brussels, a former Polish foreign minister has said. 

    Radek Sikorski defended the anti-Brexit interventions of international leaders such as US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel - and denied they were a sign of panic.

    He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:

    It's feelings of friendliness towards Britain. Everybody respects the British people's decision to go either way. But when the president of the United States tells you that you are more important as an ally as a member - and then important politicians on the continent say they same - whereas the president of Russia cheers you on your way towards Brexit, you are free to draw your own conclusions. The tone is respectful, the tone of concerned friendship. You are free to make a mistake but we would prefer you not to."

    Mr Sikorski, who has been close to Boris Johnson since they were at university together, says he has "not yet once heard a coherent, persuasive answer" for leaving on visits to the UK. 

  16. Nick Clegg: Boris Johnson like 'Trump with a thesaurus'

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Nick Clegg is asked about comments he will make later in a speech when he will apparently describe Boris Johnson as "Donald Trump with a thesaurus".

    He says these are meant to be light-hearted but also illustrate a serious point that while the former mayor of London has "greater panache and eloquence" than the Republican presidential candidate, he has few answers to the problems that the international community is facing.

    But many of the things that he and other populist politicians across the developed world are doing is appealing to people's fears but not actually providing solutions."

  17. Nick Clegg: Leave campaign will 'keep back door open' for migrants

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Nick Clegg says he respects the fact that people have "pronounced and strong" concerns about immigration but claims these won't be solved by "yanking ourselves out of a club that the UK has been a leading member for 41 years". 

    Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the former Lib Dem leader suggests the Leave campaign's proposals on immigration are contradictory as they intend to "close the front door" by leaving the EU - but will effectively "keep the back door open" by continuing to have an open border between the UK and Ireland.

    Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers says she is "shocked" by Mr Clegg's comments and the fact that a former deputy prime minister is not willing to give Parliament and the public control over the UK's borders.

    Asked to assure voters that no-one will suffer economically from leaving the EU, Ms Villiers say she can guarantee that the UK will have a trade deal with other countries once it votes to leave. 

  18. Theresa Villiers: Public 'not being taken in' by scare stories

    BBC Breakfast

    Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland Secretary and Leave campaigner, says the PM gave a "strong performance as always" on Sky last night - but this "cannot disguise" the problems with the Remain side's argument for staying in the EU.

    The reaction of the studio audience, she suggests, shows people are "not being taken in by the scare stories about economic decline" outside the EU.

    She rejects claims that the Leave campaign are eschewing the economic arguments in favour of immigration, saying they have been clear EU membership has depressed wages in the UK and the British economy would flourish outside the union.

    She quotes an interesting and rarely heard statistic that the "only continent" that has grown more slowly than Europe in recent years has been Antarctica.

    Whatever her disagreements with Mr Cameron, Ms Villiers says that the PM is the Conservative Party's "greatest asset" and he will stay in Downing Street whatever the outcome of the referendum. 

  19. David Miliband: PM set out 'sober' message on EU

    BBC Breakfast

    David Miliband

    Labour former foreign secretary David Miliband says the PM set out a "sober and stark" message last night about the benefits to the UK of EU membership, insisting that it was his "constitutional duty" to do so.

    Speaking on the BBC News Channel, he refused to be drawn on whether Jeremy Corbyn is doing enough to make the pro-EU case, saying that is a question for "political commentators" and not for him, claiming that he is campaigning in the referendum in a "personal capacity" and not as a former Labour MP.

    But he stresses that the Labour movement as a whole needs to make its own case for EU membership.

    It is good that he (Jeremy Corbyn) came out yesterday and repeated his views. It is right that there is a big national interest that crosses party lines about jobs, trade and international security but there is also a distinctive Labour case - a social justice case that comes from being a member of the EU and the things we feel passionately about in the Labour Party

  20. Prisoner deportation 'achilles heel' for Home Office

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    The failure to deport 13,000 foreign prisoners from the UK has become an "achilles heel" for the Home Office and Theresa May, Labour MP Keith Vaz tells the BBC.

    Mr Vaz, whose Commons Home Affairs Select Committee published a critical report into the issue, says the government needs to do more to persuade other EU members to accept prisoners when their jail terms end to show "charity begins at home".

    The continued presence of foreign offenders, he argues, are an "unnecessary burden" on the UK state, costing the taxpayer thousands of pounds every day and are also a "green light" to critics of the UK's immigration failings. 

    He repeats his committee's calls for foreign prisoners to have their passports taken away at the end of their sentences to ensure the process of deporting them can begin immediately.