Summary

  • Tributes paid to Labour MP Jo Cox who has died after being shot and stabbed

  • The 41-year-old mother of two became MP for Batley and Spen in 2015

  • Police arrested a 52-year-old-man over the incident in Birstall on Thursday

  • EU referendum campaigning has been suspended

  1. Rem Koolhaas: How EU leavers are looking backpublished at 10:20 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Media caption,

    The Dutch architect on how joining the EU changed Britain for the better

    The world-renowned Dutch architect on coming to study in London in the 1960s, and how those who want the UK out of the EU want to take it back to those less cosmopolitan days.  

  2. EU referendum: Sunny, warm weather predicted for voterspublished at 10:03 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    BBC Weather

    Sunny day by Tower BridgeImage source, London

    Voters in London and the south east will be bathing in temperatures averaging 23C when they go to the EU referendum polls next Thursday, according to the BBC's 10-day weather forecast.

    There will be sunny intervals,with a low of 17C and highs of 28C.

    Meanwhile, in Manchester, voters can expect a sunny day, with temperatures averaging 20C, with a low of 17C and a high of 25C.

    In Glasgow, sunny intervals are expected next Thursday, with average temperatures reaching 19C. In Cardiff, 20C and sunny intervals could be the order of the day, while in Belfast, light cloud is anticipated with 19C.

  3. Long days following the campaignspublished at 09:56 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

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  4. BBC question day: Would the UK have to accept freedom of movement if it leaves the EU?published at 09:43 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Today puts a final question from its audience on the EU debate, asking BBC Europe editor Katya Adler whether the UK could end up outside the EU - yet still having to accept free movement of people anyway.

    Katya says Leave campaigners insist that they would not accept any trade deal that involves freedom of movement.

    However, some non-EU European states such as Norway, Iceland and Switzerland have access to the single market but have to "accept some form of an open door policy for EU workers".

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    There are lots of different possible EU-UK trade scenarios if Britain votes to Leave. It all needs to be negotiated and those negotiations could take years."

  5. 'Brexit is the only way the working class can change anything'published at 09:39 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    The Guardian

    According to The Guardian's Lisa Mckenzie, external, working-class people are sick of being called ignorant or racist because of their valid concerns - and the EU referendum has given them a chance to have their say

    She says working-class people’s voices are rarely heard outside their communities, and almost never within the political or media sphere. 

    However, she says, the EU referendum debate, external has opened up a Pandora’s box of working-class anger and frustration. It is clear that the Westminster politicos are quite unnerved by this, says Mckenzie.

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    Even I am surprised by how the referendum has captured the attention and the imagination of the same people that only last year told me they had no interest in the general election because 'they' are all the same."

  6. Carney and Vote Leave clash over EU battlepublished at 09:38 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Governor of the Bank of England sends angry response to Bernard Jenkin, a director of the Vote Leave campaign, after purdah "warning", BBC reveals.

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  7. Lord Darling: 'Brexit campaigners are trying to muzzle the Bank of England'published at 09:29 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Norman Smith
    Assistant political editor

    Alistair Darling

    Former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling has accused the Leave campaign of trying to "muzzle" the Bank of England.

    This follows a letter by leading Brexit campaigners attacking the Bank for "startling dishonesty" in the referendum campaign.

    Lord Darling accuses them of trying to intimate the Bank into remaining silent:

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    This is a blatant attempt to muzzle a respected independent voice. The Bank of England is independent, the governor is independent and he has a duty to say what he thinks. It is very clear the Leave campaign doesn't want people to hear what the Bank has to say on the most critical issue facing our generation because they don't like its conclusions."

  8. BBC question day: Will I lose my job if the UK leaves the EU?published at 09:17 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    BBC Business editor Simon Jack faces a question from a City of London banker, who wonders how likely he is to lose his job if the UK leaves the EU.

    Simon replies that currently UK banks provide services across the EU and "Swiss and American banks can do the same" - and many have "operations here so they can access the European Union".

    If the UK leaves the EU, there are those who say that London's "crown is not going to slip" because there is too much expertise here.

    On the other side, JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon says 4,000 of 16,000 UK jobs could go elsewhere in Europe if the UK leaves the EU, Simon adds.

  9. BBC question day: 'Why isn't UK being offered more concessions to stay?'published at 09:04 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Today puts an audience question to BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith: "If Brexit is looking more likely, why aren't EU leaders offering more concessions if we stay - and why isn't David Cameron asking for them?"

    Following the renegotiation of the UK's membership of the EU, more concessions are probably "mission impossible", Norman says.

    There is also concern in the EU that if they start "doling out goodies" other states might think they can "do a Britain and just throw our weight around".

    Norman thinks the only concession that might make a difference would be on freedom of movement in the EU - but he thinks that Germany's Chancellor Merkel and French President Hollande are "absolutely immovable" on that issue.

  10. BBC question day: What are the residency rules for EU nationals in the UK?published at 08:53 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme about the rules of UK residency for citizens of other EU states.

    "Any EU national can come to live in the UK," he says. "If you want to stay for a lengthy period then you need to justify your presence here, by being either a worker, an employee, a student with independent means or being financially self-sufficient - not a burden on the state."

    Clive adds: "People coming here don't need to acquire a residence card but it helps if you do, because it confirms to state agencies that you're here exercising your treaty rights."

    An EU national who can't prove they fit into those categories after three months can be asked to leave, though that is "pretty rare". To get benefits, EU nationals have to show they have been trying to find work - and the European Court of Justice has upheld the UK's right to withhold benefits from those "not considered economically active".

  11. BBC question day: Do seasonal workers from the EU take UK jobs?published at 08:39 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    BBC Radio 4's Today programme puts audience questions to the BBC's specialist editors and correspondents.

    Economics editor Kamal Ahmed is asked whether seasonal workers from elsewhere in the EU take jobs from the UK population.

    "There is plenty of anecdotal evidence" Kamal says - and the number of workers from other EU states in the UK "has risen to a record level of 2.1m".

    However, "this is not a zero-sum game", he adds. "Employment is not a static factor."

    Employment for UK citizens has risen too, Kamal says.

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    The UK has been a bit of a jobs factory... There are plenty of jobs to go round."

  12. Lucy Powell: 'I'm no EU zealot but staying in is better for jobs and public services'published at 08:37 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    BBC Breakfast

    Lucy Powell

    Labour's shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, says the economic arguments "that we would pay a heavy price if we left the European Union" are overwhelming.

    The Remain supporter tells BBC Breakfast that the price would be borne by northern towns and Labour communities - and not by leading Brexit campaigner Michael Howard and his "chums in the City".

    Ms Powell argues that her Manchester Central constituency underwent a "massive regeneration" after the IRA bombing in the early 1990s, thanks to investment from the EU.

    She says she understands "people's concerns about immigration", but says the UK needs "a seat at the table" if it wants to deal with those issues.

    Asked if she thinks Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn should throw more weight behind the Remain campaign, she insists that "none of us are zealots for staying in the EU".

    While there are "dis-benefits" for remaining, she and her colleagues had made "a balanced decision" that staying in is better for UK jobs and public services, she adds.

  13. EU: Britain should leave says Dutch politician Geert Wilderspublished at 08:29 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    The World Tonight

    The right wing Dutch politician says UK will never control immigration unless it leaves the union.

  14. Maureen Lipman: Why Hull should say yes to the EUpublished at 08:28 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    The World Tonight

    Speaking on Wednesday's The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4, the actress says "Hullovians" feel Europe is as near as London. She hopes her hometown won't say no to the European Union over immigration.

  15. Treasury forecast of £4,300 losses per household 'widely discredited' says Howardpublished at 08:02 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Carole Walker
    Political correspondent

    The former Conservative leader Lord Howard has said Treasury forecasts of losses of £4,300 per household if there is a vote to leave the EU are "widely discredited" - and it would be better if institutions such as the Treasury presented a balanced approach.

    He told BBC Breakfast there were three facts in the EU debate - that if we leave we won't have to pay billions to the EU, we will have control of immigration and our Parliament will not be subordinate to the European Court of Justice.

    He said:

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    Everything else is guesswork and it is a great shame when it is presented as fact when it is nothing of the kind."

  16. PM attacks Leave campaign after senior Tories allege Remain 'dishonesty'published at 08:00 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Norman Smith
    Assistant political editor

    The prime minister has attacked the Leave campaign for undermining public confidence in the Bank of England.

    In tweets this morning Mr Cameron said:

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    It is deeply concerning that the Leave campaign is criticising the independent Bank of England. We should listen to experts when they warn us of the dangers to our economy of leaving the European Union."

    In a letter this morning, Norman Lamont, Nigel Lawson, Michael Howard and Iain Duncan Smith accuse the Bank of England, the Treasury and other "official sources" of "startling dishonesty". 

    They also say the institutions are guilty of "a woeful failure" to present "a fair and balanced analysis". 

    Downing Street says such criticism is unjustified - but also risks damaging public trust in independent organisations.

  17. Brexit 'a grave threat' to UK citiespublished at 07:39 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Leaving the EU would be "a grave threat" to local economies, say the Labour leaders of 10 of the biggest UK cities outside London.

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  18. FT editor on his paper's backing for Remainpublished at 07:37 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    Financial Times editor Lionel Barber joins Today after his paper backed a vote to Remain in the EU, external and said that "Brexit would be a gratuitous act of self-harm".

    Mr Barber says he doesn’t see "David Cameron surviving" a vote to Leave the EU and we don't know who will replace him.

    However, he claims that we do know that "there will be a shock to the economy" and people may be underestimating "the severity of the shock".

    The FT editor says that people like French far-right leader Marine le Pen and US presidential contender Donald Trump want the UK to leave the EU, while Russian President Vladimir Putin wants "a weaker, less coherent Western Europe".

  19. Lord Howard: EU debate forecasts 'are all guesswork'published at 07:36 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    BBC Breakfast

    Lord Howard

    Former Conservative leader Lord Howard defends his intervention in the EU debate on BBC Breakfast.

    He argues that Australia has been able to do trade deals with the US, China and Japan and is about to do a deal with India.

    "Nobody knows for sure what the future holds," Lord Howard says. "I believe that we will flourish and prosper as never before if we leave the European Union."

    There are a forecasts on both the Leave and Remain sides and "they are all guesswork", he declares - but he believes that "the assumptions underlying" pro-Leave forecasts "are much more likely to be right".

  20. Unilever 'would be hit by Brexit'published at 07:25 British Summer Time 16 June 2016

    Past and present Unilever bosses say the consumer goods giant would be "negatively impacted" if the UK left the EU as a result of next week's referendum.

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