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. Farage: Referendum is 'the one great opportunity' to leave the EUpublished at 09:41 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

    The Andrew Marr Show

    Nigel Farage says that if Remain win the referendum narrowly, the chances of Parliament granting another one are "probably pretty slim".

    This referendum is "the one great opportunity" to secure a Leave vote, he argues.

    Does he anticipate trouble on the streets after the referendum, Andrew Marr asks him.

    "I haven't predicted violence," Mr Farage says but jokes: "There may be violence inside the Conservative Party."

  2. Remain responds to Farage's comments on poundpublished at 09:39 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

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  3. 'My priority is we put our own people first' - Faragepublished at 09:39 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

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    UKIP leader Nigel Farage says achieving a cut on immigration needs "a government led by people with resolve and it needs to stop the open door to 500 million people across the European Union".

    Does he still stand by comments about preventing people with HIV entering the UK, made during last year's general election campaign, Andrew Marr asks him.

    Mr Farage says that many other countries wouldn't admit people who would place a demand on their own health systems. To enter Australia, he claims, you need to "not have a criminal record and have your own health insurance" - which he thinks is "sensible".

    Later, he says that in some parts of the UK it takes "a fortnight" to get an appointment with a GP.

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    My priority is we put our own people first. It's about time we did."

  4. Farage: Remain telling 'ludicrous scare stories'published at 09:32 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

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    Nigel Farage tells Andrew Marr that David Cameron offered the British people a referendum on the EU to "shoot the UKIP fox".

    The UKIP leader says the Remain campaign is now telling "ludicrous scare stories" about the implications of leaving the EU.

    Mr Farage, who supports a leave vote, dismisses concerns about the financial markets' reaction to the prospect of Brexit. 

    If sterling falls following a leave vote, he says, "so what? The fact is we have a floating currency and it will be good for exports."

    On trade, he argues that the common market was good for the UK but the single market is not. It forces the UK to put up trade barriers to other parts of the world as part of the EU, he says.

  5. Immigration: a 'nasty campaign' or a 'legitimate concern'?published at 09:27 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

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    David Frum, Baroness Kennedy and Dia Chakravarty
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    David Frum, Baroness Kennedy and Dia Chakravarty

    Labour's Baroness Kennedy says her party has a serious problem with its own supporters' concerns about immigration.

    "In many places where there aren't even immigrants there are many people who fear" the effects of immigration, she tells the Andrew Marr Show. She thinks this is because a "nasty campaign" has had an effect.

    However, US Republican commentator David Frum suggests: "Maybe we should listen to them." He issues what he calls a "warning from America" that if legitimate concerns about immigration aren't listened to then you "end up with Donald Trump". 

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    If you have a legitimate concern and don't address it, you get Donald Trump."

  6. Clash over economic warnings about Brexitpublished at 09:23 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

    The Andrew Marr Show

    During Andrew Marr's newspaper review, Dia Chakravarty of campaign group the Taxpayers' Alliance says the PM's warning over pensions is the latest in a line of economic warnings from the Remain campaign.

    Pensioners vote more than other groups, she argues, and the Conservatives have tried to keep them "sweet".

    "Economics is speculative on both sides," she adds, but Remain are claiming this is unchallengeable... it isn't".

    Pro-Remain Labour peer Baroness Kennedy says Ms Chakravarty and her fellow Leave supporters have "no serious economists on your side".

  7. Archbishop's call for 'generosity' in EU decisionpublished at 09:16 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

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  8. PM tweets ahead of Marr appearancepublished at 09:15 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

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  9. Leave calls PM's pensions warning 'a baseless threat'published at 08:57 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

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    Vote Leave says David Cameron and George Osborne's warning over UK pensions is "a frantic attempt to rescue a failing campaign".

    The PM said the strain on public finances caused by Brexit would threaten the "triple lock" which guarantees the state pension will rise by inflation, average earnings or a minimum of 2.5%.

    Mr Cameron also claimed ring-fencing future funding for the NHS could be at risk, while the chancellor said the armed forces could see their budgets slashed by £1bn - £1.5bn a year as the wider economy shrank.

    But pro-Leave former cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith called it "a baseless threat", adding:

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    The truth is that these are policy choices and the Conservative manifesto said that protecting pensioners was a priority. It is now apparent that there is nothing they will not use or jettison in their efforts to keep us in the European Union."

  10. Today's big political interviewspublished at 08:23 British Summer Time 12 June 2016

    Welcome back to live coverage of the EU referendum campaign and Sunday's big political interviews.

    Andrew Marr talks to Prime Minister David Cameron and UKIP leader Nigel Farage from 09:00 BST.

    Minister and Leave campaigner Priti Patel and Remain-supporting Labour deputy leader Tom Watson are on 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics from 10:00 BST.

    Robert Peston's guests include shadow chancellor John McDonnell, UKIP's Suzanne Evans, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

    Later, the Sunday Politics speaks to Labour MP John Mann, who recently announced he supported leaving the EU.

  11. Recap: Key developments on Fridaypublished at 22:59 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

    That's it for the evening. Here's a round-of the main developments.

    • Nigel Farage says he thinks the Leave campaign is on course for victory in the EU referendum with its "upbeat" message about life outside the EU
    • Many Labour voters don't know the party backs remaining in the EU and it could lead to a Leave vote in the referendum, senior figures have warned
    • Nicola Sturgeon has said an independent Scotland would look to retain use of the pound, regardless of Scotland or the UK's EU membership. 

    The Remain and Leave camps will be out in force on Saturday, the penultimate weekend before the referendum on 23 June, with Iain Duncan Smith and Jeremy Corbyn among those hitting the campaign trail. 

    You can read all the main developments as always on the BBC website - and we'll be back with live text commentary on Sunday when there's a packed line-up of political programmes on TV and radio, including David Cameron and Nigel Farage on the Andrew Marr Show, which kicks things off at 09:00 BST on BBC One.

  12. Is momentum with Leave as Dyson backs Brexit?published at 22:51 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

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    On Newsnight, political commentators Anne McElvoy and Tim Montgomerie say the momentum is really with the Leave side - and suggest businessman Sir James Dyson's decision, external to publicly come out in favour of Brexit this evening in an article in the Daily Telegraph seems to reinforce this.

    The economist journalist says big interventions, such as from Barack Obama, were supposed to have had a "halo effect" but this does not seem to have happened and she speculates that Remain's message needs to change. 

  13. Labour leader on cult Channel 4 comedy showpublished at 22:47 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

    In case you wondered, Jeremy Corbyn is appearing on the late-night Channel 4 comedy show the Last Leg this evening. He has shared the programme's tweet of his spoof arrival so clearly he - or his team - are enjoying the experience.

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  14. Politicians recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours Listpublished at 22:43 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

    Democratic Unionist MP Jeffrey Donaldson, Conservative international development minister Desmond Swayne, former Labour MP for Midlothian David Hamilton, and former Conservative MSP Alex Fergusson have been awarded honours in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. 

    Louise Casey, head of the government's troubled families unit and Treasury civil servant John Kingman have also been recognised.

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  15. EU commissioner: Services 'face long road back' after EU exitpublished at 21:45 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

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    Lord Hill, the UK's EU commissioner for financial services, has warned Britain's financial services could face a long road back to access to the single market if Britain opted to leave it - and that the eurozone needs to integrate further. 

    He told Newsnight either they would have to "go in each country they wanted to go in, country by country, rules by rules" or would have to go through an "equivalence process by which the rules that would then be operating in the UK have to be deemed equivalent by the EU", both meaning "long, uncertain processes". 

    He added that "having had to go through equivalence processes with, say, the United States, where I've recently done one, where I wanted to do it quickly, where the Americans wanted to do it quickly, on one narrow point, that took four years". 

  16. Opinion poll: 'Massive swing to Brexit'published at 21:37 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

    The Independent

    A new poll is giving the Leave camp a 10-point lead in the referendum. The survey by ORB for The Independent put the scores at 55% to 45% in favour of pulling out of the European Union.

    But Vote Leave has already responded, saying it believes the vote is much closer than the poll suggests. 

    Pundits have said Vote Leave will not want voters to be made complacent by the poll and not vote.  

  17. Vacuum cleaner boss set for Leave?published at 20:54 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

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  18. Analysis: Farage's 'restrained performance'published at 20:47 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

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    The Spectator has filed its verdict, external of Mr Farage's performance.

    James Forsyth, the publication's political editor, says the UKIP leader is often "keen to create controversy, to stir things up".

    But he says: "Tonight in his interview with Andrew Neil, Farage seemed keen to do the opposite; turning in a restrained performance."

    He said Mr Farage "struggled to explain" how net migration would be reduced to around 50,000 a year.

    But he added: "His toned-down performance tonight and his optimistic declaration at the end that this is about ‘re-engaging with the rest of the world’ suggests that he knows, with the race looking tighter by the day, it wouldn’t be good for Out if his rhetoric caused a row."

  19. 'I want to make UK safer' - Faragepublished at 20:41 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

    Mr Farage had been pressed on claims he made earlier this year that incidents similar to those seen in Cologne - where sexual assaults on New Year's Eve were largely blamed on migrants - could happen in the UK.

    He told the BBC: "I want to make sure Britain is safe... by controlling its borders and by having a strict policy about who can come to this country. 

    "We can't completely isolate ourselves from international terrorism and the problem the world faces. 

    "But the question in this referendum is can we make ourselves safer, and I genuinely believe that we can."

  20. UKIP leader looked 'distinctly uncomfortable'published at 20:40 British Summer Time 10 June 2016

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