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Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, says he'll campaign for the UK | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
to LEAVE the European Union, in June's referendum. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Speaking in the last hour he said his decision came | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
with a huge amount of heartache, that he didn't want to go | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
I want a better deal for the people of this country. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
To save them money and to take back control. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
The move is seen as a severe blow for the Prime Minister, | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
who'd earlier issued a plea to the Mayor. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Linking arms with Nigel Farage and George Galloway and taking | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
a leap into the dark is the wrong step for | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
We'll be assessing how Boris Johnson's decision | :00:42. | :00:54. | |
could influence the referendum debate. | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
Donald Trump wins another important victory in | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
the Republican Presidential race, as Jeb Bush decides | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
And a mixed day for England's cricketers, good news for the women, | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
A forehand smash for a long, long way! | :01:10. | :01:27. | |
After days of speculation, the Mayor of London, | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
has announced he'll back the campaign for the UK | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
He said the decision came with a huge amount of heartache, | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
and the last thing he wanted was to go against the Government. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
His decision, announced in the last hour, is a huge boost for the OUT | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
campaign, and a major blow for the Prime Minister, | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
who maintained again today that leaving the EU would be a 'leap | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg is outside | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
Mr Johnson's house in North London for us now, | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Boris Johnson had been sitting on the fence post: he must have had | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
painful splinters. The decision we will all have to make is so big, one | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
politician alone will not sing it but Charisma matters in any | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
campaign, particularly one like this, and his personality and his | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
political pitch could make a difference to many voters. When he | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
came out to make his final decision and announce it to the cameras and | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
has the kind of statement that may well have an impact on this campaign | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
and my report on his final choice contains Flash photography. Breaking | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the habit of a lifetime, he has four days kept his views to himself. Now | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
one of the few politicians in the country known by only his first | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
name, Boris has made a big decision. To argue against his friend and | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
rival, and it could set this race alight. We have a chance actually to | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
do something. I have a chance actually to do something. I would | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
like to see a new relationship based more on trade, and co-operation... | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
But, as I is they, much less of this supranational element. So that is | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
where I'm coming from. That is why I've decided after huge amount of | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
heartache because I did not want to do anything... The last thing I | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
wanted was to go against David Cameron or the government. But after | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
a great deal of heartache I don't think there's anything else I can | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
do. If that is what you have thought all along why have you kept your | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
party waiting such a long time? Because the truth is that it has | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
been agonisingly difficult. And I think for many of us, what I said | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
over a couple of years now is, I would like to be in a reformed EU. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
That is my help. And EU that is based more on free trade, | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
fundamental treaty change. Love him or loathe him you cannot ignore him. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Boris Johnson has just taken a huge political jump that could change | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
this campaign. How are you doing? It has been a more likely in recent | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
days that the Mayor of London would take the plunge. A dream for those | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
campaigning to leave, character who could make the difference. Despite | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
this last minute Frank appeal from the Prime Minister just this | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
morning. I will say to Boris what I say to everyone else, which is that | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
we will be safer, stronger, better off inside EU. I think the prospect | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
of linking arms with Nigel Farage and George Galloway and taking a | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
leap into the dark is the wrong step for our country, and if Boris and if | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
others really care about being able to get things done in our world, | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
then EU is one of the ways in which we get them done. But today | :04:55. | :05:11. | |
has been Showtime for Tory ministers who disagree with each other. | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
European Union, said this many times and been quoted, they spend money | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
from British taxpayers. Mum what I want his best for button. Even if | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
relatively polite, the clash of principles is profound. And Iain | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Duncan Smith in what he said was his first interview on TV for a decade, | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
says the Prime Minister is plain wrong. Clearly a big moment for many | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
people who have never had a say on whether they want to stay in the | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
European Union, it's only in the UK that we play this silly game of | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
pretending it is something else. It is not. It is a political union that | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
has some marketing elements attached, not the other way round. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
The prime ministers said details need to be worked out, if this | :05:48. | :05:57. | |
emergency brake and limits and child benefit go forward, much of it would | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
have to be worked out with your department. Other plans workable? | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
The Prime Minister has secured a deal, a deal very much in principle | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
because a lot of the detail won't be thrashed out until after the UK | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
decides to stay or leave. The big issue is not really around welfare, | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
it is around control of our borders, we seen what happened in Paris where | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
they spent ages planning so who is to say it's not beyond the wit of | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
man... So staying in the EU makes us more vulnerable to Paris style | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
attacks? The present status of the open borders we have now, many of us | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
feel it leaves that door open. Another disagreement. Would you have | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
the power to insist that European countries share with us border | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
information so we know what terrorists are doing in Europe? We | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
wouldn't. You would have an illusion of sovereignty, you wouldn't have | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
power. You wouldn't have control. You wouldn't get things done. In a | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
way it is quite simple, ordered Boston to come if you love this | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
country, and I love this country so much, you want what's best for it | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
and I want to make sure that we are stronger, safer. The campaigns are | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
sketched now in primary colours with personalities as well as policies | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
muttering. But only the end result will tell us if all this tension was | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
really worth the wait. This has been the first full day of | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
what has been quite a spectacle, conservatives taking completely | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
opposing positions in public and it is clear now they will all argue | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
their case load and proudly. He denies it but Boris Johnson's | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
decision is unquestionably part of the rivalry that is already in the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
party over who will take over from David Cameron. Of course that is not | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
the question that will be on the ballot paper for all of us. That's a | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
much more profound question for anybody, there is no doubt who will | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
lead the Conservative Party next is part of the intriguing backdrop to | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
this campaign. Many thanks, Laura, in north London. | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Well, the Prime Minister firmly believes the deal he brokered | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
with the EU will help convince voters he's right | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
for EU migrant workers, can be limited for the first four years. | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
and that child benefit payments will be curbed too. | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
The UK will be excused from a commitment to what Brussels | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
And countries that don't use the euro will be able force debate | :08:21. | :08:30. | |
through a safeguard mechanism, on proposals they don't like. | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
But critics say the deal has fallen short | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
in many areas, with UK sovereignty still undermined by EU | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Our Special Correspondent Lucy Manning has been to Leeds | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
to gauge opinion on how the deal has been received. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
The argument about Britain and the EU has gone round and round, | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
but now everyone will get a vote to decide. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
So will they follow the Prime Minister or vote to leave? | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
We are such a little country by ourselves, | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Have you been persuaded by the deal to Prime Minister has done? | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
No. Not at all. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
I'd already thought I would vote to stay anyway. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
There is lots for and lots against, really. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Personally, I think we should leave it, become Great Britain again | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
If Boris Johnson goes for the Out campaign, | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
I think Boris is a very interesting character, | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
but he wouldn't persuade me either way. | :09:28. | :09:28. | |
Last year, 6,000 people came from the European Union | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
So will the Prime Minister's new deal to restrict the benefits | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
and child benefits that those coming from abroad can claim make | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
any difference to those who want to come to work here? | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Leeds' Polish community gathered after church. | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
Have they had too big a portion of the benefits | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
Jimmy and Joanna have been here for ten years. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
The Poles do not come here to claim benefits, | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Dominic sends his child benefit back to Poland and thinks reducing it | :10:03. | :10:16. | |
would be unfair, but he does back the plans to limit other benefits. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
I think the idea of Prime Minister David Cameron of increasing | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
the period after which people will be entitled to four years, | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
I think this is a good idea, because this | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
may stop people who are purely coming to this country | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
But for some Poles who came in, they now support Out. | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
I think it is going to be better for the UK just to leave Europe. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Even if it means that fewer Polish people can travel | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
I think we need to have some kind of limitations. | :10:49. | :10:56. | |
The politicians might be making up their minds, | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
but it's the voters' views that count. | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
Police in the American state of Michigan have arrested a man | :11:06. | :11:07. | |
after a series of shootings left six people dead, | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
A father and son were shot outside a car showroom, | :11:10. | :11:22. | |
while the other victims were killed in a restaurant car park. | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
A 14-year old girl was also seriously injured. | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
Jason Dalton, who's 45, was arrested after a police search. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
The Syrian city of Homs and the capital Damascus, | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
have been hit by a wave of deadly bombings, despite international | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
efforts to secure a ceasefire in the country's civil war. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Human rights observers say at least 57 people died in twin bomb | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
blasts in the central district of Homs, | :11:40. | :11:40. | |
a bastion of support for President Bashar al Assad, | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
while Syrian state media says at least 30 people have died | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
in explosions close to a Shia shrine in Damascus. | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
The former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, has pulled out | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
of the Republican presidential race, after another win | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
for Donald Trump,in the South Carolina primary. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
Once regarded as the Republican favourite, Mr Bush finished fourth. | :12:04. | :12:12. | |
For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton won a clear victory in the Nevada | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
primaries, overcoming a strong challenge from her rival, | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel is in Columbia | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
in South Carolina, and sent us this report. | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
First, the uneasy anticipation at Trump HQ. | :12:23. | :12:23. | |
There is nothing easy about running for president. | :12:24. | :12:36. | |
It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
We're gonna do the wall, and by the way, | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
who's gonna pay for the wall? | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
Donald Trump has won South Carolina, following on from his victory | :12:50. | :12:58. | |
He is clearly established as the front runner now. | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
The question is, how many other Republican candidates have the money | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
The person who had the biggest war chest and family connections | :13:11. | :13:19. | |
last night bowed to the inevitable | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
But the people of Iowa and New Hampshire have spoken, | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
So tonight, I am suspending my campaign. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Jeb Bush was crushed by Trump in the debates. | :13:31. | :13:47. | |
And on the stump, he didn't seem one of life's natural campaigners. | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
..To get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world. | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
In the Democratic race in Nevada, Hillary Clinton scored | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
an important win over her socialist rival Bernie Sanders. | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
After emphatic defeat in New Hampshire, her victory speech | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
I am so, so thrilled and so grateful to all of my supporters out there. | :14:10. | :14:19. | |
Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
Hillary Clinton has renewed momentum, | :14:26. | :14:26. | |
but Bernie Sanders has money and support, and in this race, | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
on both Democrat and Republican sides, | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
West Ham and Crystal Palace have made it to the quarterfinals of the | :14:39. | :14:53. | |
FA Cup and so have Chelsea, they beat a week and Manchester City 5-1, | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
William Mark with the second for Chelsea as they cruised to victory | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
at Stamford Bridge. Cricket..and it was a day | :15:01. | :15:02. | |
of contrasting fortunes England's women won their Twenty20 | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
decider against South Africa But the men were hammered | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
by 9wickets, as the hosts sealed With the world champion just weeks | :15:08. | :15:21. | |
away, a day to find form, to find confidence. Early on, however, | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
England found very little, barring frustration and the odd post. Light | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
at the end of that tunnel was for some time offered by Jos Buttler | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
with Captain Eoin Morgan the pair provided promise. That was, until | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
the collapse as rapid as it was spectacular. Unlucky at times, | :15:39. | :15:45. | |
perhaps, like you, Morgan, run out. Such was the demise, even South | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
Africa were struggling to watch. Seven wickets lost for just 14 runs, | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
all out for 171. And faced with the talent and the power that the hosts | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
possess, it never looked anything like enough. AB de Villiers brutal, | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
71 from 29 balls. Hashim Amla equally punishing. Victory was more | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
than five overs to spare. If England came to find their form they leave | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
South Africa empty-handed. The England women a different story. Set | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
132 to win by South Africa, it was Sarah Taylor who provided the | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
inspiration. Her 60 helped them to a four wicket win, a series victory | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
and plenty of confidence. Adam wild, BBC News. | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel, | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
and I'll be back with the late news at 10. | :16:37. | :16:37. |