The President of European Council, Donald Tusk, has warned that "Europe without the United Kingdom" would be "distinctly weaker" and the UK outside the EU would be "distinctly weaker too".      

Donald Tusk was, until 2014, the Prime Minister of Poland. He is now President of the European Council - the body made up of heads of government - including David Cameron - from the 28 EU countries.

Mr Tusk called the UK a "key state" in the EU and said many British ideas about the EU were "gaining support all over Europe". 

During a question and answer session with journalists on a trip to Finland, he said: "There are so many things we can do together. Leaving now doesn't make any sense.”

He went on to say that it was "our right and our obligation to be frank and fair".

Speaking in Chiswick (after a photo op with Jeremy Clarkson and James May) David Cameron defended the Remain campaign's warnings about the threat of Brexit to the economy.

"These are the minutes of the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England," the prime minister said. "These people are independent and their job is to advise us about risks facing our economy and they couldn't be clearer."

He added:

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Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has defended the chancellor's claim that he will need to introduce an emergency budget if the UK leaves the EU.

George Osborne says he will have to slash public spending and increase taxes to tackle a £30bn "black hole" if the UK votes for Brexit.

Pressed on the issue during a question and answer session on BBC Radio 4's World at One, Ms Rudd argues that rather than ignoring the prospect, he was giving "a responsible measured response" to it.

"What the chancellor is doing is very rightly highlighting the consequences of what will happen if we leave," she says.

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Energy Secretary Amber Rudd, a staunch Remain campaigner, says she was only trading jokes with Vote Leave stalwart Boris Johnson when she described him in a TV debate as the life and soul of the party but "not the man you want driving you home at the end of the evening".

In a question and answer session on BBC's Radio 4's World at One programme, Ms Rudd insists: "I just think he was driving us in the wrong direction in trying to lead us out of the European Union."

She says her remarks were in the "context of a few light-hearted jokes" and Mr Johnson had not taken offence.

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood says she has been taken aback by the strength of the campaign in Wales to leave the EU.

Labour MP Yvette Cooper has accused Leave campaigners of "exploiting the misery of the Syrian refugee crisis in the most dishonest and immoral way". It follows the launch of a new UKIP poster depicting a column of migrants and suggesting that immigration is at "breaking point".

Ms Cooper said: "Europe didn't cause the Syrian refugee crisis and pulling out of the EU won't stop people fleeing conflict and persecution by ISIS and the Assad regime." 

Her remarks were echoed by fellow Remain campaigners Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake, the Green MP Caroline Lucas and the Conservative Neil Carmichael.

Caroline Lucas said:

Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn went back over some polling stats before Prof John Curtice, of the British Polling Council, suggested there was now "a serious possibility that we will vote to leave".

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UKIP has unveiled a new poster about immigration, which suggests that the UK is at "breaking point" because of migrants.

Speaking at an event in London, the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage said: "What we have seen are huge streams of people coming into Europe over the course of the last year.

"No security checks done on anybody and just in the last two weeks a bomb plot in Dusseldorf unveiled showing that four people had come in posing as migrants last year."

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Ken Clarke, the former Conservative Chancellor, has said he finds it "quite extraordinary" that his Conservative colleagues - Iain Duncan Smith, Lord Lawson, Lord Lamont and Lord Howard - have accused the Bank of England and the Treasury of "peddling phony forecasts".

Mr Clarke, who wants the UK to remain in the EU, said: "They are all friends of mine but they can't actually believe that. I really do rather disapprove of them attacking public bodies whose duty it is to give advice on all these things, who are allowed to give advice on things within their responsibility and just dismissing them all.

Boris Johnson has been confronted during a visit to Cromer by a young woman who accused him of ignoring the next generation.

She told him: “You need to think about the younger generation - the people who are going to bring this country forward in the future, But you’re not. You’re not at all.”

The Tory MP and Vote Leave campaigner said the UK could “flourish as never before outside the EU”.

Visibly angry and unimpressed, the woman walked away and said “No thanks” when Mr Johnson offered her a leaflet.

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The former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May have said Britain remaining in the EU is one of only three things they agree on. They were speaking at a meeting with the Prime Minister David Cameron in the west London office of their TV production company.

Jeremy Clarkson told the PM: "It's an extraordinary thing that James and I only agree on three things, which is sandwich spread is delicious, the old Subaru Legacy Outback is a good car and Britain staying in."

He added: "I have not, with the greatest of respect, heard one politician say anything that's caused me to change my mind.

"There's huge numbers that don't understand and get confused. Really, it's my gut."

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Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

Shoppers visiting Kingston upon Thames’ food market are sandwiched between two local MPs divided over the whether Britain should remain in the UK. Perfect mood box territory then!

I borrowed the well-travelled, four-wheeled, wooden plank of public opinion polling to find out not how people are intending to vote, but whether they have made up their minds yet.

After the onslaught from both campaigns from air, ground and online wars, are a random sample of people in Kingston now more confused, or are they convinced?  

This film will air on Thursday's Daily Politics - watch on the tab above - live until 13:00.

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Conservative former chancellor, Ken Clarke, says "nobody knows what on earth is going to happen politically or economically if we leave" the EU.

The pro-Remain campaigner says the UK will have to decide how to keep a government going in the wake of a Brexit "because the vast majority of the House of Commons is in favour of staying in".

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Mr Clarke adds that "there are huge uncertainties if we leave", arguing that the prime minister and chancellor want what is in the best interests of this country.

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The Bank of England has held interest rates at historic lows of 0.5%, saying that uncertainty about the referendum outcome continues to be the "largest immediate risk" facing financial markets, including globally.

"Through financial markets and confidence channels, there are risks of adverse spill-overs to the global economy," the Bank said of the possibility of a vote to leave the EU on 23 June.

It said that there was growing evidence that businesses and consumers were putting off "major economic decisions" in the UK ahead of the referendum.

In the minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee, the Bank said that commercial and residential real estate purchases, car purchases and business investments had been postponed.

"An increasing range of financial asset prices has become more sensitive to market perceptions of the likely outcome of the forthcoming EU referendum," the Bank said, pointing out that its "measure of uncertainty" had risen.

The value of sterling had also become more volatile, with volatility indexes rising to levels not seen since October 2008 and the financial crisis.

The Bank repeated its warning in the May MPC minutes, saying that a "vote to leave the EU could materially alter the outlook for [economic] output and inflation".

It said it had contingency measures in place to deal with any fall-out from the referendum result, including more intense supervision of banks, the offer of more support to financial institutions should they need it and partnerships with other central banks to maintain financial stability.

Jeremy Corbyn is asked by the press why he thinks so many Labour supporters are coming out in favour of leaving the EU.

The Labour leader says he believes some "haven't understood" Britain's relationship with the EU or investment in regions like Cornwall.

Ending his speech in Rotherham, Jeremy Corbyn warns that the EU "must demonstrate its continued relevance to its people or it will be rejected".

"But it’s up to British politicians too, to lead that change," he says.

The Labour leader adds:

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