5 live visited Stockholm to find out what eight Europeans living there thought of a possible Brexit.

In his speech, Jeremy Corbyn reiterates his call for an end to zero hours contracts, which he says "are not allowed in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Spain".

"It seems we’re the odd one out," he says. "Our politicians now in power are choosing not to tackle exploitation, but we will."

He says Labour wants the UK to remain in Europe "because we believe staying in the European Union offers our people a better future in terms of jobs, investment, rights at work and environmental protection".

The UK must support an EU-wide blacklist of tax havens, "to sanction them and back measures to eradicate them," he says.

Jeremy Corbyn claims "migrants aren't driving down wages - unscrupulous employers are because the government allows them".

The Labour leader, making his party's case to remain in the EU, is giving a speech at the University of Sheffield in Yorkshire.

He said: 

Mr Corbyn says by working with the EU, "Labour governments brought in the agency workers’ directive, the working time directive and a whole package of legislation that helped to protect workers across Europe".

"Migrants that come here, work here, earn here and pay their taxes here," he adds.

Michael Gove and Boris Johnson are either showing "woeful ignorance" or being "wilfully misleading" with their warnings about Turkish accession to the European Union, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said.

The leading Conservative Brexit campaigners sought to ramp up pressure on the Prime Minister David Cameron over Turkey with a letter demanding a clear commitment to vetoing EU membership for the country.

The letter, also signed by Labour's Gisela Stuart, said negotiations on Turkey's accession were "rapidly accelerating" and that the only way to avoid the UK sharing Turkey's borders with countries like Syria and Iraq was for voters to back Leave in the 23 June referendum.

But Mr Hammond insisted that the issue of Turkish accession was "a massive red herring" as the country was "absolutely not" anywhere near joining the EU and Britain would anyway wield its veto to block any "inappropriate" membership. 

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond defended the Bank's decision to release its analysis of the risks of Brexit - and blasted politicians who have "misused" the information provided by independent experts.

Answering questions following a speech to the Chatham House think-tank in London, Mr Hammond said:

John McDonnell says the Tory splits over the EU have pushed Labour's message out of the media.

However, he says that now "the Labour family has come together" with MPs, trade unionists and others campaigning for a Remain vote.

He argues that co-operation with EU partners is needed on the economy and other policy areas such as climate change.

"There is a new spirit abroad in Europe," the Labour shadow chancellor says.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney hits back at critics in the Vote Leave campaign who have warned him about commenting on the Referendum.

Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell takes to the stage in Manchester, saying the EU debate so far has not "matched the significance of the decision that we want to take".

He condemns "hyperbole and exaggeration" among Tory campaigners, from David Cameron's warning of "World War Three", and "more appallingly, Boris Johnson comparing the EU to the Third Reich".

The Labour Remain campaigner accuses Conservatives of dragging the debate into "the political gutter".

He says the campaign has been "dominated by the future leadership of the Tory party" and also accuses Boris Johnson of choosing the Leave side because of his own personal ambitions.

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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy claims that a Leave vote would be "a double shipwreck" - for the UK and the EU.

In an interview appearing in five European newspapers, including Le Figaro,, external he says: "Europe would lose its second economy. And for our British friends it would be a catastrophe, all the more as the forces of dislocation would come into play. Then you’d risk raising the question of Scotland and the UK."

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Labour former PM Gordon Brown says Leave campaigners want to "blame Europe for problems they have caused themselves".

The Remain supporter refers to recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, adding that history shows that the "only way forward is cooperation in dealing with these problems and not division".

He tells his audience in Manchester that "for a thousand years, Europe was fighting each other" and, following the UK leading "the fight against fascism", we now have "a Europe at peace".

Gordon Brown says the EU referendum debate "cannot anymore be a debate between one Tory elite and another Tory elite" or "between one London dinner party set" and another.

The debate should include those who are worried about "where the next job may come from", the former prime minister says.

He insists there "is no road to full employment... that doesn't go through the European Union".

Gordon Brown says Labour has "been saying for years" that the Conservatives can't be trusted on the NHS.

He refers to Conservative splits and the Leave campaign's claim that Brexit would mean more money for the NHS.

"Even the Tories say you can't trust the Tories on the National Health Service," the former PM says. He argues that, for NHS staff:

Independent Australian politician Bob Katter defends a video that depicts him shooting dead members of the major parties.

Two former Conservative leaders and two ex-chancellors accuse the Bank of England and Treasury of "peddling phoney forecasts" to scare people into voting to stay in the EU.

Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses a pro-Remain rally in Manchester. 

He says Manchester projects including the Metrolink tram system were supported by the EU, and EU money helped the city rebuild after an IRA bomb in 1996.

Mr Brown says the Conservatives turned "our industrial heartlands into industrial wastelands" - adding that he is there to speak for "Labour values" and a "progressive case" for EU membership.

Betting odds on the likelihood of Britain voting to remain in the European Union fell to 60% on Thursday after a poll put the "Leave" camp ahead, according to Betfair.

Odds had earlier shown a 65% implied probability of a vote to remain in the bloc at the 23 June referendum.

But an Ipsos MORI telephone poll suggested 53% of Britons would vote for a so-called Brexit - against 47% who would vote to stay, putting the "Leave" camp ahead for the first time in the monthly telephone surveys.

The Guardian

Describing himself as "a lefty Brexiter", The Guardian's Giles Fraser, external says the EU "is not a natural love match for the left".

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