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. PM: Nothing matters more than the economypublished at 16:51 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    David Cameron. who was campaigning alongside Welsh First Minsiter Carwyn Jones for Remain, said he believed things were "undoubtedly close" in the referendum race, with many people "genuinely undecided."

    He insisted the UK's economy would take a hit in the event of Brexit, and said "nothing matters more than the economy".

    Carwyn JonesImage source, PA

    Carwyn Jones agreed, saying a Brexit would be a "self-inflicted wound" and "another obstacle to jump over" when it came to creating jobs in Wales. He advised the audience not to "jump off a cliff hoping there's a net on the other side."  

  2. PM: My fate should be determined at general elections - not in EU votepublished at 16:51 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    David CameronImage source, EPA

    David Cameron has said his fate as leader of the country "should be determined at general elections”, during a visit to British Gas in Cardiff.

    Asked whether he could be trusted to run the country if the UK voted to leave the EU, the PM said he would respect whatever decision the British people made in next week's referendum. But, with regards to himself, he said general elections were when people got the chance to "throw politicians in or throw them out".

    Some MPs have suggested Mr Cameron would be forced to step down in the event of a vote to leave.

  3. Salmond: Osborne wouldn't be able to get Brexit Budget through Commonspublished at 16:50 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

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    Alex Salmond suggests George Osborne wouldn't have the numbers in the Commons to get any emergency Brexit Budget through.

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    I don't think that Osborne can get his emergency Budget through. In fact, if there's a Brexit vote, he won't be chancellor, he'll be out with Cameron a week on Friday."

    But he adds: "My worry is about the people would then come in, who are even worse than the gruesome twosome I've just mentioned." - later referring Leave campaigners Iain Duncan Smith, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

    The SNP MP says that despite the "exaggeration" of the impact of a Brexit, he says it would hit the economy, and inward investment would "come to a halt".

  4. Remain can win with 'a positive message' - Salmondpublished at 16:50 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    LBC

    SNP MP and former Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, is taking questions on LBC radio.

    Asked about George Osborne's Brexit budget warning, Mr Salmond, who is campaigning for Remain, says he doesn't approve of the "scaremongering tactics".

    The caller who asked the question described the chancellor's move as "appalling and disgusting" - words which Mr Salmond said were a "good description" of Mr Osborne "at any time".

    Mr Salmond says Remain should be focusing its campaign in the days until the vote on the "positive" case for EU membership.

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    That's the campaign that can win."

  5. Geldof and Farage clash on the Thamespublished at 16:19 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    Bob Geldof and Remain campaigners take on Nigel Farage's Vote Leave flotilla.

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  6. School refuses to screen Brexit filmpublished at 16:19 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    Campaigners calling for the UK to leave the EU criticise a school after it pulls out of showing a film backing an exit.

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  7. Nick Robinson: Could EU vote lose the PM his job?published at 16:15 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

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    Nick Robinson explains the possible aftershocks of the EU referendum

    Could the EU referendum lead lose both David Cameron and perhaps Jeremy Corbyn their jobs as prime minister and Labour leader?

    Today programme presenter Nick Robinson explains what the possible aftershocks of the referendum campaign could be.

  8. Osborne 'should get back in his box' - Labour's Clive Lewispublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

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    Clive Lewis

    Commenting on George Osborne's Brexit Budget warnings, Labour shadow minister Clive Lewis, who backs Remain, says the chancellor "needs to get back in his box" and "sit this one out".

    "His interventions in this campaign have been about as successful as his economic policies over the past six years - they've been a disaster," he tells BBC News.

    The MP says to argue the need for more austerity after six years of "failed economic policies" to solve problems that could arise if the UK votes to leave, doesn't "bear thinking about".

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    Although we're on the same side about staying in Europe, that's the only commonality we have."

    He suggests government "scare tactics" to put people off Brexit are putting people off voting Remain.

  9. PM and Jones join forces for Remain bidpublished at 15:51 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    Prime Minister David Cameron and First Minister Carwyn Jones join forces in Cardiff to urge voters to back remaining in the EU.

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  10. PM: Brexit could mean NI border checkspublished at 15:48 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    David Cameron says a Brexit could mean checks on people leaving NI for other parts of the UK.

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  11. Redrawn constituency boundaries 'out of date', say Labour peerspublished at 15:46 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    By Keith Macdougall, BBC Today in Parliament

    Houses of ParliamentImage source, AP

    Two Labour peers say the re-drawn map of parliamentary constituencies may be out of date following the addition of new voters to the electoral list ahead of the EU referendum.

    Parliament has agreed the Commons should be reduced from 650 MPs to 600 to save money, and the Boundary Commissions for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are due to publish their plans for new constituencies in September.

    At question time, Lord Grocott said it was welcome that "substantially increased numbers of people" had registered to vote in recent weeks. 

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    But does that not have clear implications for the work of the parliamentary Boundary Commission? It is now likely to report on the basis of substantially out-of-date electoral registration figures."

    Lord Campbell Savours said as many as "a million new people" were on the register and said: "Surely, people on those registers should now be taken into account in the setting of boundaries; otherwise, the boundaries will be false boundaries and not relevant." 

    Government minister Lord Bridges told peers:

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    Without defined data and a set of registers to assess, it is impossible to run a review. Registers for a boundary review are necessarily a snapshot."

  12. 'Polar bears could do better trade job'published at 15:45 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    UKIP Wales leader Nathan Gill suggests that polar bears could do a better job of trading than the UK in the EU.

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  13. Leave 'hanging fire' with anti-Osborne Budget letterpublished at 15:36 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

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  14. Facebook removes EU referendum status suggestionspublished at 15:31 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    Facebook pageImage source, Jon Worth

    Facebook has removed pro-Leave and pro-Remain status update suggestions from a list given to users.

    On Tuesday, Berlin-based British political blogger Jon Worth noticed that he had been given a suggested update of "in favour of leaving the EU" - but not one related to remaining.

    Facebook said both pro-Leave and pro-Remain prompts had now been removed, due to the sensitivity of the vote.

    The two options are shown, together, only if users search for "EU".

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  15. 'Danger' blaming outsiders in EU debatepublished at 15:30 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    A senior Plaid Cymru politician warns Britain will go down a "dangerous road" if it blames outsiders for the country's economic faults.

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  16. Spectator magazine comes out for Brexitpublished at 15:22 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    In an editorial, external, the Spectator said:

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    No one - economist, politician or mystic - knows what tumult we can expect in the next 15 years. But we do know that whatever happens, Britain will be better able to respond and adapt as a sovereign country living under its own laws. The history of the last two centuries can be summed up in two words: democracy matters. Let’s vote to defend it on 23 June."

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  17. DUP will join with Tories to vote against Brexit budgetpublished at 15:15 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    The Democratic Unionist Party has confirmed it will join with rebel Conservative MPs in opposing the chancellor's plans for an emergency Brexit budget in the event of a Leave vote in next week's EU referendum.

    The party's eight MPs will ally themselves with up to 57 Tories in voting against such a Budget.

  18. Does the EU boost Northern Powerhouse?published at 15:08 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    George Osborne and Boris Johnson on whether the Northern Powerhouse is helped or hindered by the European Union.

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  19. Farage and Geldof in flotilla face-offpublished at 15:07 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    Nigel Farage's flotilla of Leave fishing boats clashes on the Thames with Bob Geldof and a small group of vessels backing the Remain case.

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  20. Nick Robinson: Could EU vote lose the PM his job?published at 15:03 British Summer Time 15 June 2016

    Could the EU referendum lead lose both David Cameron and perhaps Jeremy Corbyn their jobs as prime minister and Labour leader?

    Today programme presenter Nick Robinson explains what the possible aftershocks of the referendum campaign could be.