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The choice is in your hands, but my recommendation is clear -

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I believe that Britain will be safer, stronger and better off

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So the debate has started and the date is set -

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British voters will decide on June the 23rd if they want to stay

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The announcement was made here in Downing Street,

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where the Prime Minister chaired a cabinet meeting and explained

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the new deal he'd negotiated in Brussels.

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But these senior ministers have decided not to side

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with the Prime Minister and will campaign to leave.

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I do not believe we can take decisions in our national interest

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when we're part of the EU when we've given up so much control over

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We'll be asking voters in Surrey for their thoughts

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on the referendum, now that the date has been confirmed.

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And we'll be reporting from Edinburgh, where

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the Scottish Government says it will be making a strong case

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for remaining inside the European Union.

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Good evening from Downing Street, where earlier today

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the Prime Minister emerged from Number 10

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to announce that a referendum will be held on the 23rd of June

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to decide whether or not Britain should remain a member

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It will be - in his words - one of the biggest

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Mr Cameron had informed the cabinet of the new terms of EU membership

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But several of Mr Cameron's cabinet colleagues -

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including the Justice Secretary Michael Gove -

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have announced today that they will campaign for Britain

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We'll have more on the detail of Mr Cameron's deal in a moment,

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but first our political editor Laura Kuenssberg reports

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Just what has the Prime Minister opened up?

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An argument that not all of his colleagues can agree on.

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What does this deal mean to your colleagues?

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As the Cabinet gathered to tell each other at last officially if they're

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Was that a difficult decision, Mr Gove?

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An awkward entrance for one of the Prime

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Minister's closest friends, who will oppose him.

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It is no secret how big a decision this is for us all,

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but what the Prime Minister would recommend was never really

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With the deal from Brussels in his back pocket, here it was.

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We are approaching one of the biggest

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decisions our country will face in our lifetime -

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whether to remain in a reformed European Union, or to leave.

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Our plan for Europe gives us the best of both worlds.

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It underlines our special status, through which families

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across Britain get all the benefits of being in the European Union,

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including more jobs, lower prices and greater security.

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But our special status also means we are out

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of those parts of Europe that do not work for us.

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And I will go to Parliament and propose that the

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British people decide our future in Europe through an in/out

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But my recommendation is clear - I believe that Britain

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will be safer, stronger and better off in a reformed European Union.

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Don't be in any doubt, this is one of biggest political

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He's finally confirmed, you will be asked the biggest

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political question in decades and he's putting

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at stake our membership of the European Union,

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the unity of his party and indeed his own political

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I think everyone thinks it is a good deal, the question

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is whether everybody thinks it is enough for us

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Those who oppose him slipped out the back door.

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Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming...

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A member of the Cabinet, I'm the Secretary for Work

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and Pensions and I'm ringing you from the Vote Leave campaign.

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Going straight to the headquarters of one

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The first Cabinet Minister to speak for out told me.

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There are things that we could and should be doing in the interests

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of this country that we simply cannot do as members of EU.

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I want to be able to control our borders,

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to limit the number of people who come and live and work here.

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I want to be able to do trade deals with parts of the world

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where exciting economic things are happening.

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But it's not just a disagreement between you and and the Prime

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Minister, it is a very different judgment on what he has

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He has brought back from Brussels some changes to our European

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relationships that can make a difference, but don't

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transform things in the way I would wish.

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And you're going to spend the next four months,

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day in day out, telling the Prime Minister he is wrong

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I'm not going to attack the Prime Minister.

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The Prime Minister has worked immensely

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hard to deliver change to our relationship

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The debate is whether that change is sufficient to enable us to stay

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The campaign to stay will have the backing of most Tory,

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Liberal Democrat, Labour and SNP MPs.

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We want to be in government in 2020 to deal a much strong stronger

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social Europe, greater workers' protection,

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greater environmental protection across Europe.

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That is the agenda that Cameron should have

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No 10 hopes a new and improved relationship with the EU can

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But the referendum will ask if this place,

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It's three years since the Prime Minister said he would be

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seeking a new settlement for Britain in the European Union.

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The new terms he secured in last night's agreement

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should, according to Mr Cameron, help to reduce people's concerns

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But how do those new terms compare with his original goals?

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Are they - as the critics say - a very poor result for the UK?

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Our deputy political editor James Landale has

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When David Cameron set out to reform Britain's relationship

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with the European Union, his ambition was clear.

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That is why we need fundamental, far-reaching change.

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Well, one aim was to deter EU migration by curbing their benefits.

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The Tory manifesto promised that if an EU migrant's child is living

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abroad, then they should receive no child benefit.

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The deal says that EU migrants will get child benefit,

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but only reflecting prices in their own country,

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A change that comes in immediately for new arrivals, in four years

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The manifesto also promised that EU migrants who want to claim tax

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credits must live here and contribute to our country

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The deal says instead that EU migrants will have their tax credits

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A restriction that the Government will be able to impose only

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The Prime Minister also promised to protect Britain from being sucked

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I'm asking European leaders for a clear, legally binding

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and irreversible agreement to end Britain's obligation to work

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So it's time to give these national parliament's a greater say

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Well, the deal says the UK will indeed not be committed

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to further political integration and it does give more power

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to national parliament's to block new EU laws,

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if more than half of them group together and force EU governments

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The Prime Minister promised to protect the economy

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from financial decisions made by eurozone countries.

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I'm asking European leaders to agree clear and binding principles that

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protect Britain and other non-euro countries and a safeguard mechanism

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to ensure that those principles are respected and enforced.

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The deal bans any discrimination against non-euro countries and gives

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the UK the right to challenge, but not veto eurozone decisions

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they oppose, a change that will be written into EU law in the future.

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So this deal doesn't reduce a deter against migration,

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safeguards from the eurozone and a check on further political

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integration, but it doesn't restrict the free movement of labour around

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Europe, it doesn't change EU employment law, it doesn't reform

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farm payments, all of which the Prime Minister has

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So this deal is, by definition, a compromise.

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The question now is whether it's good enough to convince voters

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to remain in the EU or so minimal it persuades them to vote to leave.

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James Landale, BBC News, Westminster.

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With me is Laura Kuenssberg, our political editor.

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Let's underline what we know and clearly what we don't know. One

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thing is now definitely happening. At the end of June we will have the

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chance to leave the European Union if that is what the country decide

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it wants. After four decades since that question was put that is a very

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significant political question for the country to settle about leaving

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an institution that has been a fundamental part of how we, our

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lives are governed for many years. Another extraordinary thing is we

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have No 10 presiding over a cabinet that is split. It is usually part of

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government to look unified. And that is not the case. One big thing

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unresolved is whether the gang of six we saw will become a gang of

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seven and whether they will be joined by Boris Johnson. This time

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tomorrow night, we will know whether or not Boris Johnson has decided to

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campaign to leave the EU. He will set out his arguments for that in

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his newspaper column on Monday. At this stage after the hovering and

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sitting on the fence the surprise would be if Boris Johnson backed

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David Cameron and argued for in. It is still not certain, but it look

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like he will put his weight behind the out campaign. That matters

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because he is a rare kind of politician who can cut through to

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the public for good or ill. Thank you.

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In Edinburgh, the Scottish Government

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says it will make the case for remaining in the European Union.

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The First Minister and leader of the SNP,

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Nicola Sturgeon, said it was now more important

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than ever that those who supported EU membership

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said so loudly and clearly, as our Scotland editor

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On a dreich Edinburgh afternoon, people still enjoy a few European

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But seriously, what happens in the EU

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referendum in June could have far-reaching consequences in

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This referendum is meant to end the debate about Britain's

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future in or out of the European Union, but it

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could raise all sorts of questions about the future

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If the UK were to vote to leave, while Scotland had

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clearly indicated voters wanted to remain, that could cause a second

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referendum on Scottish independence, one the Nationalists might be more

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The SNP insists Scotland should not be

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forced out of the EU if that is not what Scots vote for.

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I hope it doesn't happen, I hope the UK as a whole votes

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to stay in, but I think it's obvious to anybody that if Scotland found

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itself being taken out of the European Union

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against our will, people would want to think

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again about being independent, as a way to secure our membership.

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In a French cafe in Edinburgh, the argument about Britain's future

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in the EU is seen as part of wider ongoing debate about Scotland's

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Scotland is used to being part of a larger union and it knows

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England has not had that experience and it's scary to them.

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England has auz always been a dominant part

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It doesn't know how to be the smaller part of a bigger union.

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Scotland is a important nation throughout the world,

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it is a key exporter, it has led the world

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in research and development and what we are now part

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of is an ever-shrinking part of the global market.

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And I think even though we have had some

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success in Europe in the past, it is time to move on.

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It can be a pretty lonely job trying to persuade Scots

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to vote to leave and nearly all the senior politicians

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in Scotland will be campaigning to stay.

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Here in Scotland, we need a Scottish government to stand up

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against Brussels and fight for our steel

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workers and steel industry, our farming industry and our fishing

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industry and sadly they're not doing that.

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Those campaigning to stay in the EU have a much easier job in Scotland.

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Polls show Scots are more likely to opt to remain than voters

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So in the end, it could be Scottish votes

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The date was confirmed, June 23rd when British voters will decide

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whether the U. K stays in the European Union.

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Nick Higham has been talking to voters in Camberley in Surrey,

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where the local MP is Michael Gove, the Justice Secretary,

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The wind and rain kept many of the shoppers indoors,

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a chance to ask the stall holders what they think of Europe

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and which way they will vote in the referendum.

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Are you going to vote to stay in or go out.

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It is crippling our country, especially small

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We are being ruled by unelected people in Brussels

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We have lost a lot of our independence, but then we do,

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being part of Europe does work for us financially.

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Wouldn't you have to pay more for your imported

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People like the Greeks would probably charge us a lot

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This is Michael Gove's constituency, overwhelmingly

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Conservative, but just as the Cabinet is divided over

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Europe, so are Mr Gove's constituents.

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I would definitely be on his side, I just don't think the way things

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are in Europe, Europe's getting too big

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and I think we should be better off trading with the rest of the world

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As Europe's grown, it is getting too big.

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It is best for our security, it is best for our economic

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I think jobs will benefit from staying in Europe.

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Coming out of the rain as you discover that Camberley's

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main shopping centre is busy and bustling.

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You would expect that, this is a wealthy part of the world.

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The other thing you discover is that even though the local MP has come

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down firmly on one side of the argument, many people around

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here are still undecided about which way

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I'm going to listen to all the arguments actually.

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I thought I would be staying in, but I'm just going to listen

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to all the arguments before making a decision.

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I need to know about the benefits of being in or out.

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I haven't decided, I don't think I know enough at the moment

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Despite David Cameron's deal in Brussels, it seems

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And just a reminder that you can find detail,

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background and analysis about the referendum

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and the all issues involved on our website at bbc.co.uk/news.

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Laura, given we heard about the up decideds, it shows it is all to play

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for? Yes it is. During those months there will be a bewildering whirl of

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claim and counter claim. There will be a lot of political focus. How can

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each party handle it. How does the Government cope with being divided.

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What it is going to come down for a lot of people is an instinct. It is

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about our identity and for a lot of people it will be a feeling in their

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gut. We heard people are not sure about this yet. But no mistake, this

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is as a country, the biggest political decision we will have made

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for more than four decades. Thank you.

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Before we go, a reminder that David Cameron, Nigel Farage

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and Nicola Sturgeon will all be talking to Andrew Marr tomorrow

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morning at 9 o'clock here on BBC One.

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But for now, from all of the team in Downing Street,

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Good evening. The weather continues to keep us on our toes. Today it

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felt like spring in the west country with temperatures in the low teens.

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Contrast that with the winter scene in the Highlands where there has

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been a lot of snow. The snow will continue to pile up in northern

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Scotland tonight.

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