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EU referendum live: Farage tackles Cameron amid row over foreign criminals
EU referendum live: David Cameron's press conference
(35 minutes later)
11.19am BST
11:19
David Cameron's press conference
David Cameron is starting with a statement.
He mentions the intervention from the Hitachi boss. (See 8.42am.) He quotes from Hiroaki Nakanishi’s article and he says jobs would be at risk.
And he quotes from what the head of the WTO said in a Reuters inteview yesterday about how leaving the EU would be a “high risk bet”.
Cameron says these interventions are “an economic reality check”.
11.15am BST
11:15
David Cameron is keeping the journalists waiting in the sunshine - which is not a good idea.
Press corps beginning to wilt waiting for PM in blazing sunshine #factor500 #swelter #redfaces pic.twitter.com/zMvbXgvmKV
11.13am BST
11:13
The pound has gone up this morning on the back for polls showing Remain ahead, the Press Association reports.
Sterling has surged against the dollar and the euro after fresh polls put the Remain camp in the lead ahead of the EU referendum.
The value of the pound rose more than 1% against the dollar at 1.46, and it was up 0.9% against the euro at 1.283.
The swing away from the three-week low against the dollar seen on Monday came after support for staying in the EU was given a one-point lead in an online YouGov survey for The Times, and a telephone poll by ORB for the Daily Telegraph.
However, some analysts have questioned whether the currency movement could have been partly caused by a “fat finger trade” - an order to buy or sell which is larger than intended.
Senior market analyst Craig Erlam, at OandA, said: “The two polls overnight have lent support to the pound early in today’s session, although the spike from around 1.4480 to 1.4640 shortly after 5am in the UK has been attributed to a fat finger trade.”
A fat finger trade is a mistake, someone hitting the wrong keyboard (or a typo as we call it in my line of work.)
11.06am BST
11:06
David Cameron has picked an interesting spot for his press conference this morning. Enemy territory? #EUref pic.twitter.com/nb3yWBKcAK
11.03am BST
11:03
Leave campaigners have sent some chickens to picket the Cameron event.
That’s a reference to David Cameron not debating directly with Nigel Farage tonight, I presume.
We've been sent to the Johnson Roof Terrace for Cameron speech on EU referendum.How apt pic.twitter.com/g51RlUzVV3
Cameron about to hold a press conference. Some @vote_leave chickens outside. Presumably referring to @itv programme (not debate) tonight
10.59am BST
10:59
David Cameron's press conference
David Cameron’s press conference is due to start shortly.
Decent backdrop for the PM's surprise press conference ... pic.twitter.com/RVYa5wxBwj
Not too shabby a location for PM's press conference this morning pic.twitter.com/QD7CxIno2W
10.53am BST
10:53
My colleague Peter Walker has tweeted a picture of the latest Remain poster.
The Remain campaign's latest, entirely non-fear based and positive message to voters about Brexit pic.twitter.com/f4ucFmYNKl
10.50am BST
10:50
Dominic Raab, the justice minister and Brexit campaigner, was on the Today programme talking about Vote Leave’s claim that EU rules are preventing the deportation of foreign criminals. When it was put to him that leaving the EU would mean that the UK could no longer use the European arrest warrant to extradite people (Lord Mandelson’s point - see 9.17am,), he said that David Anderson, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has said he would expect extradition arrangements to continue in the event of Brexit.
Anderson has taken to Twitter this morning asking Vote Leave not to quote him selectively. He thinks the UK will be safer remaining in the EU, he says.
To those in the Leave campaign selectively quoting me, I am clear (for the record) that we are safer in: https://t.co/LUWyRQKPBj.
The Vote Leave briefing explains in detail why EU law makes it hard for the UK to deport EU criminals after they have finished their jail sentences. It says:
The home secretary has the power to deport foreign nationals from the UK if she considers that it would ‘be conducive to the public good’ (Immigration Act 1971, s. 3(5)(a). In addition, UK law provides that a person who is (a) convicted of a serious crime and sentenced to imprisonment or (b) is sentenced to more than twelve months’ imprisonment, is subject to automatic deportation (UK Borders Act 2007, s. 32). However, this has no application where deportation ‘would breach rights of the foreign criminal under the EU treaties’ (UK Borders Act 2007, s. 33(4)).
This means that those with a right of residence in the UK under EU law are subject to a much weaker system. As Mr Justice McCloskey has said, EU foreign national offenders fall under ‘an entirely different régime from that which applies to other immigrants’ (Homb v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2014] UKAITUR IA202952012). EU law ‘purposefully make[s] it difficult to remove a person from the jurisdiction’, even if they are a criminal (Secretary of State for the Home Department v Juocys [2013] UKAITUR DA005632013).
The Vote Leave briefing also says the 2004 free movement directive says a criminal conviction alone does not constitute grounds for deporting someone. It also says that EU citizens who have lived in the UK for more than five years may only be removed on “serious grounds of public policy and public security” and that EU citizens who have been here for 10 years can only be removed “on imperative grounds of public security”.
Raab told the Today programme that, because of these rules, the government was able to remove eight times as many non-EU nationals as EU nationals.
10.32am BST
10.32am BST
10:32
10:32
At the Labour poster launch earlier Jeremy Corbyn made a last-minute plea to young people to register to vote. The deadline is tonight. He said:
At the Labour poster launch earlier Jeremy Corbyn made a last-minute plea to young people to register to vote. The deadline is tonight. He said:
Today is the last day to register to vote in the referendum and I urge anyone who is listening or watching us today to just remember they have a chance to register today - they can do it online, it means they will be able to vote and take part.
Today is the last day to register to vote in the referendum and I urge anyone who is listening or watching us today to just remember they have a chance to register today - they can do it online, it means they will be able to vote and take part.
Many young people are still not registered. I hope they will take the advantage of using a smartphone or a computer and getting their names on the register to be able to take part in what will be a very important decision.
Many young people are still not registered. I hope they will take the advantage of using a smartphone or a computer and getting their names on the register to be able to take part in what will be a very important decision.
10.28am BST
10.28am BST
10:28
10:28
Cameron to hold a press conference
Cameron to hold a press conference
David Cameron is holding a Britain Stronger in Europe press conference this morning.
David Cameron is holding a Britain Stronger in Europe press conference this morning.
Big day - Cameron - Farage in front of same audience tonight, and on way to last min number 10 press conference this morning
Big day - Cameron - Farage in front of same audience tonight, and on way to last min number 10 press conference this morning
We don’t know yet what he plans to say, but from what his aides are hinting, it sounds as if he is not just inviting journalists in for a pleasant chat.
We don’t know yet what he plans to say, but from what his aides are hinting, it sounds as if he is not just inviting journalists in for a pleasant chat.
(Proper prime ministerial press conferences in London are about as rare now as solar eclipses. Cameron always holds one at the end of every EU summit in Brussels, and he holds press conferences when some foreign leaders visit, which are often limited to two questions for the British press. After speeches he will normally take two or three questions from journalists. But a proper press conference is different, because it allows for sustained questioning.)
(Proper prime ministerial press conferences in London are about as rare now as solar eclipses. Cameron always holds one at the end of every EU summit in Brussels, and he holds press conferences when some foreign leaders visit, which are often limited to two questions for the British press. After speeches he will normally take two or three questions from journalists. But a proper press conference is different, because it allows for sustained questioning.)
10.21am BST
10.21am BST
10:21
10:21
Carolyn Fairbairn, the CBI director general, has been delivering a speech on the EU this morning. She said that the business consensus was in favour of remaining in the single market and that that was because of the single market.
Carolyn Fairbairn, the CBI director general, has been delivering a speech on the EU this morning. She said that the business consensus was in favour of remaining in the single market and that that was because of the single market.
The business consensus is for the UK to remain inside the EU. Ask me to give you the top reason by a country mile and I’d give you two words - single market.
The business consensus is for the UK to remain inside the EU. Ask me to give you the top reason by a country mile and I’d give you two words - single market.
500 million citizens, 28 member states, one set of rules. The largest free trade zone in the world with access to 53 other trade deals around the world.
500 million citizens, 28 member states, one set of rules. The largest free trade zone in the world with access to 53 other trade deals around the world.
As a country, we created the single market, we’re shaping it. And – if we remain – we will help decide where it goes next.
As a country, we created the single market, we’re shaping it. And – if we remain – we will help decide where it goes next.
She also said the expansion of the EU digital single market offered huge opportunities to British firms.
She also said the expansion of the EU digital single market offered huge opportunities to British firms.
When it comes to e-commerce, the UK is the best in the world. There aren’t many countries where you can order groceries online today, and have them on your doorstep tomorrow.
When it comes to e-commerce, the UK is the best in the world. There aren’t many countries where you can order groceries online today, and have them on your doorstep tomorrow.
And European e-commerce is growing fast. We might call a country growing at 6-7% a year ‘high growth’. Well, European e-commerce is growing by three times that, at 18% a year.
And European e-commerce is growing fast. We might call a country growing at 6-7% a year ‘high growth’. Well, European e-commerce is growing by three times that, at 18% a year.
Yet despite all our expertise and all this opportunity – today just one in 14 UK retailers sells online elsewhere in the EU. Setting a single set of rules – and creating a truly digital single market – would be a massive coup for thousands of British businesses.
Yet despite all our expertise and all this opportunity – today just one in 14 UK retailers sells online elsewhere in the EU. Setting a single set of rules – and creating a truly digital single market – would be a massive coup for thousands of British businesses.
From big retailers to entrepreneurs selling out of their spare rooms, 450m new customers would be just a click away. And it is within reach if we remain in the EU.
From big retailers to entrepreneurs selling out of their spare rooms, 450m new customers would be just a click away. And it is within reach if we remain in the EU.
10.12am BST
10.12am BST
10:12
10:12
What UK Thinks, the specialist polling website, has updated its poll of polls on the EU referendum.
What UK Thinks, the specialist polling website, has updated its poll of polls on the EU referendum.
Here is the Financial Times’s Brexit poll tracker (which compiles a poll of polls in a slightly different way, and does not seem to have been updated since Sunday.)
Here is the Financial Times’s Brexit poll tracker (which compiles a poll of polls in a slightly different way, and does not seem to have been updated since Sunday.)
And here’s the Bloomberg Brexit tracker.
And here’s the Bloomberg Brexit tracker.
9.54am BST
9.54am BST
09:54
09:54
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, has been launching a new EU referendum poster this morning.
Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, has been launching a new EU referendum poster this morning.
We've just launched our new #LabourIn advert about the workers' rights we've secured through membership of the EU pic.twitter.com/B0Mj6SR3wi
We've just launched our new #LabourIn advert about the workers' rights we've secured through membership of the EU pic.twitter.com/B0Mj6SR3wi
These are from the BBC’s Norman Smith.
These are from the BBC’s Norman Smith.
Labours Tom Watson says its up to individual Labour MPs to decide whether to campaign alongside David Cameron
Labours Tom Watson says its up to individual Labour MPs to decide whether to campaign alongside David Cameron
Tom Watson says he wd not campaign with Cameron in #Euref
Tom Watson says he wd not campaign with Cameron in #Euref
At one point Tom Watson, the deputy Labour leader, burst into song.
At one point Tom Watson, the deputy Labour leader, burst into song.
.@tom_watson just started singing Holding Back The Years. Actually true. pic.twitter.com/x5vkhQFA2K
.@tom_watson just started singing Holding Back The Years. Actually true. pic.twitter.com/x5vkhQFA2K
Channel 4 News’ Michael Crick thinks Watson’s choice was not particularly appropriate.
Channel 4 News’ Michael Crick thinks Watson’s choice was not particularly appropriate.
Oh dear. Tom Watson sings Simply Red at today's Labour event. Yesterday @mjhucknall called Corbyn "spineless coward" pic.twitter.com/jyV1naVsy8
Oh dear. Tom Watson sings Simply Red at today's Labour event. Yesterday @mjhucknall called Corbyn "spineless coward" pic.twitter.com/jyV1naVsy8
9.17am BST
09:17
Mandeslon says leaving the EU would 'torpedo' the British economy
Lord Mandelson, the Labour former business secretary, was interviewed on Sky News this morning, ahead of a pro-EU event he’s attending later with Sajid Javid, the current business secretary. Here are the main points he made.
In my view if we left the European Union we would be outside Europe’s 500 million consumer, single market, and that would torpedo our economy, our well-being and prosperity in our country.
I think that people’s trust in all politicians in all parties has gone down over the years. But what I would say to them is this, don’t take it from me, don’t rely on my word, look at the Daily Mirror, page 10, today. The chairman of Hitachi, a very, very major Japanese investor, invested in Britain’s rail and energy sectors, he and other Japanese investors have created 140,000 direct jobs in this country, coming to Britain so that they can then access Europe’s single market. And what he’s writing in the Daily Mirror today is this: “Take away the UK’s membership of the European Union and the future investment case in Britain looks very different for us. We worry that Brexiteers, those who want to leave the European Union, have no answer to how the UK could negotiate cost-free access to this huge market from a position outside it.”
Ask him this: he rightly talks about 50 who have not yet been - foreign European criminals - who have not yet been deported. Ask him about the 6,500 European criminals that have been successfully deported from this country through our use of the European arrest warrant. That’s since 2010. They take a germ of truth, they then generalise from it and in the process they distort the real picture. The big picture is that we need the European arrest warrant to deal with these criminals and being members of the European Union allows us to use that warrant to very good effect.
I’ve taken the quotes from PoliticsHome.
9.03am BST
09:03
Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has been talking to the Daily Telegraph about his preparation for tonight’s TV (not quite) head-to-head with David Cameron. (They are on the same programme, but being interviewed separately, not debating each other directly.) You can tell Farage is taking it seriously because he says he has given up drink for a week.
He told the Telegraph:
It will be a big pitch against the establishment and I shall be saying to people ‘if ever there was a vote in your life that could make a difference, this is it’.
The big issue is to say to people ‘don’t listen to a political class backed up with their mates and their multi-national businesses and big banks for whom the EU and corporatism has been enriching. Your lives have been made miserable by this’.
The only people leaving the EU would make poorer are the ruling classes. Families like the Camerons might be worse off outside the EU ...
For years I have been clear, consistent and I believe absolutely truthful about the damage that [Cameron’] political project has done to this country at a democratic and economic level.
I want the audience to see that and to ask themselves the question in their minds about a prime minister who promises to reduce net migration to tens of thousands becomes prime minister on the back of it and doesn’t have the ability to deliver it.
According to the Telegraph, Farage wants to highlight the government’s failure to address the risk of Turkish accession to the EU, poor border security, illegal immigration and protecting Britain’s fishing stocks from foreign trawlers.
8.42am BST
08:42
Hitachi boss says Brexit could make firm rethink its investments in UK
Andrew Sparrow
Hello. I’m Andrew Sparrow, taking over from Claire.
Britiain Stronger in Europe is very pleased about an article that Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of Hitachi, has written an article for the Daily Mirror opposing Brexit. Hitachi employs 3,600 people in the UK and Nakanishi says that if Britain were to leave the EU, companies like his would rethink their investment decisions.
Here’s an excerpt.
We have our regional headquarters here and moved our global rail headquarters to London.
But take away the UK’s membership of the EU, and the future investment case looks very different.
In the 80s Nissan and Toyota came to the UK on the basis that if they produced here and employed a British workforce they would be treated as European companies.
This was only possible because Britain was inside the EU; and so the UK car industry was revived and became an exporter again.
From Japan, this incredible success story looks like a huge gain from the UK’s membership of the EU.
We worry because those advocating Brexit have no answer to how the UK could negotiate cost-free access to this huge market from a position outside it.
It would take a long time and result in uncertain market conditions; during this renegotiation period, investors would probably be waiting to see the outcomes, hold back on investment, and jobs would be lost.
This is the cold economic reality of Brexit.
This is not just a Japanese view. Many international investors in UK manufacturing and research, like Airbus, Siemens, GE and Microsoft have voiced the same concerns ...
Brexit would force us and similar companies to rethink, because we still have a European vision, and would be disadvantaged in pursuing it from the UK.
8.19am BST
08:19
Claire Phipps
It’s time for me to hand the live blog over to Andrew Sparrow, who’ll be here for the rest of the day.
Thanks for reading and for your comments here and on Twitter.
8.11am BST
08:11
A non-EU aside, but an important one: this morning Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley will be quizzed by MPs on the business, innovation and skills committee.
It follows revelations in the Guardian that the firm effectively paid staff below the minimum wage and subjected them to daily searches.
The business live blog will have coverage of Ashley’s appearance right here:
Related: Mike Ashley quizzed by MPs over Sports Direct working conditions – live updates
7.58am BST
07:58
News from Australia, where the federal election is underway, could equally serve as a warning for politicians – or rather, those coming into contact with politicians – on campaign trails everywhere. Wash your hands!
Related: Warning that shaking hands with politicians may cause outbreak of gastro bug norovirus
7.47am BST
07:47
Former European commissioner Peter Mandelson has more to say today on what he and business secretary Sajid Javid claim could be a £34.4bn “export tax” for British firms to trade with the EU in the event of a Brexit.
Mandelson has said that Leave campaigners want to weaken Cameron ahead of the referendum, according to this report from AFP:
Mandelson said it was in the interests of Brexit backers “to make David Cameron look as isolated as possible – isolated within his own party and also isolated from others in the political mainstream and spectrum”.
“That’s why you’re seeing the agitation, the daily headlines delivered courtesy of the pro-Brexit press on behalf of the ‘Leave’ campaign,” he added.
“That’s how they want him to be seen because they think in that way they will reduce support for him.”
Mandelson wants the country to remain part of the EU.
“People correctly perceive the risks but they do not yet fully understand why the danger of leaving the EU and its single market is so great for the economy,” he added. “That’s our job to explain.”
7.37am BST
07:37
How would Brexit affect you? Here’s a whizz through the things – workers’ rights, consumer protections, environmental regulations – that could be affected if Britain votes to leave.
7.26am BST
07:26
Midnight tonight is the cut-off for those who still need to register to vote: find out how to do that here. The Electoral Commission, according to the Today programme, says 226,000 people signed up yesterday (it’s possible, mind you, that at least some of those were already registered, but belt and braces and all that).
Yesterday was the 2nd biggest day ever in voter registration, says the @ElectoralCommUK. 226,000 people registered, nearly 150,000 under 35.
For those who need further encouragement there’s a Twitter emoji for those declaring they are #EURefReady – it’s a neon tick, which I can’t guarantee will show up on your screen in the tweet below…
#EURefReady is top trend in the UK - great work! Tweet now, make sure everyone knows to sign up before midnight Tues https://t.co/L1wVCexcch
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6.50am BST
06:50
Morning briefing
Claire Phipps
Good morning and welcome to our daily EU referendum coverage.
I’m kicking things off with the morning briefing to set you up for the day ahead and steering the live blog until Andrew Sparrow takes his seat. Do come and chat in the comments below or find me on Twitter @Claire_Phipps.
The big picture
Nigel Farage – that longtime espouser of Brexit – has so far been rather shouldered aside in the campaign by official Vote Leave frontmen Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. Today he’s back in the spotlight.
The Ukip leader (much to the chagrin of Vote Leave, who called it an “outrage”) will appear on ITV1 this evening for a Q&A with a live studio audience. David Cameron will do the same but, as has become the norm in this campaign, will not face Farage directly. Instead the two men will have 30 minutes of questions from audience members, moderated by ITV newsreader Julie Etchingham.
The BBC reports that an internal analysis commissioned by Leave.EU advised that Farage should be used only “sparingly” as a campaign spokesman because of the risk he could alienate voters with “a divisive or reactionary tone on issues like immigration”.
Farage is already under pressure, with a call for him to apologise this evening for comments suggesting mass sex attacks, such as those that took place in Cologne, could happen in the UK if it remains in the EU. He has already faced criticism from both sides of the campaign, but a letter in Tuesday’s Guardian from Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi, Labour peer and anti-racism campaigner Doreen Lawrence, and former director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti says his remarks are “an age-old racist tool”:
In Tuesday evening’s debate, Nigel Farage should apologise for the fear and offence caused, retract his comments and promise to conduct future debates with the seriousness and gravity that they and the British public deserve.
Cameron will face his own pressures, too, with Vote Leave continuing to argue that EU rules have prevented the UK from deporting foreign criminals. The Outers have compiled a list of 50 offenders they say cannot be forced to leave, including Learco Chindamo, an Italian national who murdered headteacher Philip Lawrence in 1995. Chindamo – who was 15 when he stabbed Lawrence – could not be deported because he had lived in the UK since he was six years old.
Meanwhile, Janet Yellen, the head of the US Federal Reserve, has warned that the possibility of Brexit ranks alongside instability in the Chinese economy and sluggish global growth as a major threat to the American economy. In a speech on Monday Yellen said:
“One development that could shift investor sentiment is the upcoming referendum in the United Kingdom. A UK vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.
You should also know:
Poll position
A fresh Telegraph/ORB poll – written up for the paper by one Lynton Crosby – puts the gap between Remain and Leave at just one point, with In on 48% and Out on 47%. Interesting (though perhaps predictable) discrepancies occur when those polled were asked which result would secure a stronger economy (45% Remain v 37% Leave) and which would improve the UK’s immigration system (54% Leave v 21% Remain).
A YouGov poll in the Times today sees Remain one point ahead on 43%, recovering from a four-point deficit in a similar poll last week. It also found that 46% of those polled thought the Remain campaign was dishonest, and 42% believed the same was true for Leave.
Diary
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Steven Rosenberg, the BBC Moscow correspondent, wonders whether Russian president Vladimir Putin would be pro-Brexit:
Russia is, indeed, ‘not involved’: after all, it’s not Russian voters who will decide whether the UK is in or out of the EU.
But ‘no interests in this field’? That is debatable.
‘If there’s a Brexit, if there’s a crisis in the European Union, this will be a local propaganda victory,’ claims Prof Sergei Medvedev from Moscow’s higher school of economics. He believes the Kremlin’s calculation is a simple one: Brexit = a weaker EU = a stronger Russia.
Over at the Huffington Post, Natalie Bennett, leader of the Greens, explains why she shared a platform with the prime minister yesterday – and why she thinks the media has the wrong story:
The questions from the assembled media were all directed at David Cameron. And they were predictably, boringly, unfruitfully, on script. Two were about internal conflicts within the Tory party. One was about how fervently the Labour party is promoting the ‘remain’ message. The prime minister blocked them with greatly practised ease.
That prompted me to go off script. As David Cameron wrapped up proceedings, I stepped forward with a message very explicitly directed at the media. I said that they were short-changing voters, short-changing democracy, by treating the referendum as being about internal party struggles …
The media has a choice. They can choose to cover this vital decision about the future of our nation, and the whole of Europe, as a Tory leadership contest. Or they can cover it properly, in a way that allows the voters of Britain to make this vital choice with solid information from a wide range of sources, critically examined.
Aditya Chakrabortty, right here in the Guardian, asks why any of us would trust politicians on the EU – or anything else:
British democracy in 2016 comes down to this: a prime minister can no longer come out and say something and expect to be believed. He or she must wheel out a common room-full of experts. He or she can expect to be called a liar in the press and by their colleagues. He or she can only hope that some of what they say resonates with an electorate that has tuned them out.
And mainstream politicians have only themselves to blame. Over the past three decades, Britons have been made a series of false promises. They have been told they must go to war with a country that can bomb them in 45 minutes – only to learn later that that was false. They have been assured the economy was booming, only to find out it was fuelled by house prices and tax credits.
Baffling claim of the day
Nigel Farage has told the Telegraph that he has not had an alcoholic drink for a week in preparation for tonight’s debate:
It is a big moment for the campaign – I am not taking it lightly; I am thinking very hard about it.
So all those other debates/elections/events/engagements were … not so big?
Celebrity endorsement of the day
We are spoilt for choice today. Keith Chegwin is for Brexit, according to an interview with bingo website mFortune Bingo (yes, that is a thing and you can watch the interview in full here. I have to confess I haven’t watched it because it appears to be two hours long. But feel free to report back). Chegwin told the site:
I think it’s always better to shut the door, then open it again and agree better terms.
Chegwin is joined in the Leave corner by Richard Fairbrass, aka half of Right Said Fred:
Don't forget that for those daft enough to vote 'remain' registration is best done on the 24th. https://t.co/CuA2BGUbY4
While over in the Remain corner is comedian and Matilda songsmith Tim Minchin:
UK humans. 1day left to register to vote! https://t.co/T6NpUm5BR5. Have your say! (My conclusion, FWIW: leaving the EU would be insane.)
As well as The Thick of It and Veep creator Armando Iannucci:
EU isn't pretty, but I fear the gleeful faces of Johnson, Gove, Farage, Fox, and Duncan Smith would be uglier still.
The day in a tweet
Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, doesn’t think much of today’s Telegraph front page: “European criminals free to live in Britain”.
Well, except for about 1,200 each year extradited from the UK under the European Arrest Warrant. Hmm ... https://t.co/8vnP0Qcw0P
If today were a classic novel ...
It would be Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment – the twin themes for the campaigns today. Also, it’s long. Very long. Keep up, readers.
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