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There are just a few hours of campaigning left and both sides

of the EU referendum debate are making their last

Tempers flare as both sides tour the country

The success of the UK will be down to us coming out. Do not believe

this to the unknown. -- leave this. Go out and vote Remain

for a bigger, better Britain Stronger, safer, better off -

a day to go, let's do it. This is a great moment

for our country and a time to be optimistic about what Britain can

achieve when we believe We'll be reporting from the length

and breadth of the UK to assess the national mood ahead

of tomorrow's crucial vote. And we'll tell you how

and when you're likely Commemorating Jo Cox -

events take place across the world on would have been

the MP's 42nd birthday. A bit of R for the England

captain ahead of their next And mud, glorious mud at Glastonbury

as some festival goers get stuck in traffic jams lasting

five hours to get there. And in the sport, it is

the conclusion of the group Tonight we will know the complete

line-up of the last 16. It, of course, includes England,

Wales and Northern Ireland. The date of the EU referendum

was announced four months ago. Politicians on both sides

of the argument have been travelling the length and breadth

of the country in a last-ditch On the Leave side,

Boris Johnson called for a totally new relationship

with the European Union - branding it "failing

and dysfunctional". David Cameron has insisted

that the UK is safer, stronger and better if it stays

in the EU. Our Political Editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, has 5-iron. London. They had almost --

they would almost back up to anything to get the vote! By 730A,

the main Tory face of leaving the EU was with supporters in Essex. One

hour later, the Prime Minister on the factory floor again, this time

with Harriet Harman. Your decision could change his career.

APPLAUSE. Ramming home his message with help

from his friends. If they vote to leave on the basis of half-truths

and untruths and misunderstandings, then pretty soon, the grave-diggers

of posterity -- prosperity will have serious questions to answer. Is he

wondering if you will also be a former Prime Minister by the

weekend? Ashby dinners which in Leicestershire, the closing hours of

a campaign that has been vibrant and noisy. And if the opinion polls tell

us anything, the result could be very tight. What do you think will

happen? I think it is impossible to know, everybody wants to take back

control of the democracy and they will, it tomorrow and I would say to

people making up their mind, the safest thing to do is to Vote Leave

because of the do not, we are locked into this thing and it will go on

with no reform. Senior politicians said that the more hands they shape,

the more votes they get what it is not quite as simple as that. But he

is giving this a good try! But there has been anger and anxiety on both

sides. No, I can't! Nobody wants to listen to you. That is why you do

not want to listen... This is verbal diarrhoea! Because I am 17? What the

UK decides could affect our other union. The SNP wants to remain. But

this is the moment for the man whose years of campaigning to leave

punished to this decision, one day only. Vote with your heart and your

soul. Filled with pride in this country and its people and,

together, we can make tomorrow our Independence Day. Whether by battle

bus, aeroplane or helicopter or simply in wellies, whatever it takes

today. Then a show of strength for the Labour Party, leader is

reluctant remain but will the voters missing? The vote is tomorrow. Do

what is best for the people, but for jobs and rights of work, but for the

NHS, vote to remain in the European Union. But on the south coast at

lunchtime, the most that fight has been amongst Tory friends and

rivals. More people have been warm and responsive and recognise that

voting to leave is the most optimistic thing to do. Three

o'clock and school buses are lined up and the Prime Minister is on home

turf for a visit in Oxfordshire. Just in case you did not notice, he

wants the choice to be about the next generation. Might he be

wondering if only they had a vote? A couple of weeks ago you were not

worried about the result but you must be? Obviously, for the sake of

the country it is important to vote to stay in because people have a

stronger economy and be safer, that is how we can be stronger as a

country so in this last day we need to make all of those arguments and

encourage people to get out and vote to remain. What is your hunch?

Either way, your choice will not be the end of this extraordinary story.

The referendum has already changed politics. This is only the end of

part one. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Oxfordshire.

Well, as the campaign leaders were criss-crossing the

country, so was our Deputy Political Editor, John Pienaar,

to find out what voters made of today's final push.

Something big was going on outside. Something blonde. Fun to watch,

these campaign visits, but now, the minds of most people are made up and

there is no budging. Leave. Why? This country, I am proud of it,

railways, you name it, people saying we cannot manage or do this or that?

Cameron has put me off. By the lies! The Boris Johnson circus moves on,

past others just as concerned but they be more cautious than cross. I

am putting to stay in. You cite certain. Why are you so sure? I am

not definitely sure, to be honest, but I am more concerned about my job

and things like that. My son is doing economics in sixth form and he

has been giving me an ear blasting. He has been telling me to stay in.

But worries about migrants keeping wages dined keep coming up. They are

happy to work at ?5 per hour, less than me. What do you do? What can

you do? A couple of things, we are in the trucking industry. In

Banbury, the news of the time is a campaigning of David Cameron. My

name is Charlie. I will vote in. I like the free movement of people. I

liked the fact that my brother lives in Spain. He has his own company and

is happy and I do not know how this will affect him and if I went to

Italy tomorrow, I can do that. Sounds nice! Sorry to gate-crash the

party. Happy birthday. I will do an opinion poll, who is in? Why? I

think the economy is stronger in the European Union, I think people are

voting out because they have not decided, they don't have enough

information but I think, why take that risk? If you are unsure, vote

to stay in. I don't know much about politics anyway. I would rather not

take the risk. Why is this a risk? I don't know. It is like... Either

saying, here is ?1 million while you can have what is in the box. I would

take the money! Wide out? Various reasons. The one that is most

important to me is that my vote is for the government and I give them

the mandate to govern and they don't give Europe a mandate to govern us,

simple as that. So the minds have been made up, even if tempers have

been tested on the way. Two big issues have

dominated the campaign - immigration and the economy -

with the Remain side arguing leaving the EU could damage economic growth

and the Leave side saying coming out of the EU is the only way

to control immigration. In a moment we'll be speaking

to our Business Editor, But first, our Home Editor,

Mark Easton, is with Immigration has become a crucial

aspect of this referendum. Absolutely, what is interesting is

that for millions of people, their most direct experience of the EU has

been the opening of a Polish delicatessen in the High Street, it

has been an extraordinary phenomenon. We have seen something

like 1.7 million EU citizens settling here. Often in places that

are very unused to having foreign rivals and that is why immigration

is one of the real key bases, people feel uneasy about change. Because of

the rules on free movement, politicians explained they can do

little or nothing to stop that. If we leave the EU, Britain could also

leave the single market, meaning we no longer will be bound by those

rules and we can introduce what Leave campaign calls an Australian

style points system for immigrants, rather like for non-EU migrants. If

people think this will be a vote to stop foreigners coming in, it is not

that simple. After all, Ross Johnston, Michael Gove, they have

both describe themselves as probe migration. A stress the benefits

that migrants can bring. And on the Remain side, they have talked about

how they might control immigration. The argument on this issue is less

about numbers, more about control. And whether shaping the kind of

immigration that Britain wants can be achieved after in or out. Thank

you. Simon, and it comes to the economy, both sides have taken

biometric and opposed positions? -- diametrically. It is a grind on

which the Remain campaign is wanted to conduct this campaign because

they have the weight of economic opinion on their side. The governor

of the Bank of England has warned of a shock to the economy at least in

the short-term and a possible fall in the value of the pound. There are

big issues around trade, how will the relationship work-out with the

of the EU? Will it be DNA or Swiss or Norwegian or Canada? It is that

on certain that has been the O2 weapon the Remain campaign. But

leaves say this is nonsense, it will be in our mutual interest to

continue to trade and we would be free to cut deals with the rest of

the world more quickly than at a snail 's pace the EU proceeds. There

is a big business lobby letter in The Times newspaper, 1200 names from

AstraZeneca to Vodafone saying we would be better off in. But there

were? In the Scottish referendum it was thought they did sway the ballot

but I would say that there is a big disconnect between what is going on

in the city tonight and what is happening in the polls, the pound

had stronger state of the year, the stock market was up and yet the

polls have this as neck and smack. One of them is wrong and we will

find out on Friday who that is. Thank you.

Later in the programme, Jeremy Vine will be bringing us

a guide to voting and how and when we can expect a result.

And there are, of course, lots more details about the EU

referendum on the BBC website - that's bbc.co.uk/news.

With just a few hours of campaigning left,

both sides of the EU referendum debate are making their

Traffic chaos for festival goers as they try to make their way

to the Glastonbury Festival - and that's before

What next for England here at Euro 2016, after Roy Hodgson's selection

gamble that left his side in the same half of the draw

Events are taking place across the world to mark

what would have been the 42nd birthday of the Labour MP Jo Cox,

A minute's silence has been held in Trafalgar Square in London,

with vigils in New York, Brussels, Mumbai and in her constituency

Our Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt reports.

Jo Cox's husband, Brendan, and their two children, Cuillin and Lejla,

travelled down the river Thames today to join a celebration of her

life. Today would have been a 42nd birthday. It's a week since she was

killed while holding her MP's surgery in Yorkshire. Several

thousand people had gathered in Trafalgar Square, many holding

pictures of Jo Cox. Some had come from Yorkshire. Some signed pledges

supporting her causes. Her husband came on stage and spoke of how the

family had coped in the past few days. We try to remember not how

cruelly she has been taken from us but how unbelievably lucky we were

to have her in our lives for so long. He said his wife's killing had

been an act of terror. What a beautiful irony is that an act

designed to advance hatred is instead generated such an outpouring

of love. Among those who spoke was the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.

In Jo's life is the proof that a message of peace is more powerful

than any weapon of war. Once again, the extremists have failed. Jo Cox's

death has been a key moment in the referendum campaign, sparking

reflection on the tone of intense political debate, on how claims and

counterclaims are framed, but today was a day for tributes to a

campaigning MP, from friends, family and former colleagues. Four times

major golf winner Rory McIlroy has pulled out of the Olympics because

of concerns about the Zika virus. He was due to represent Ireland and he

said, although the risk of infection is considered low, it was not

prepared to take that risk. Football, and England will play

Iceland in their next match in the final 16 of the Euros

after Iceland beat Austria Is this good news for England? I

think it certainly is, but for a couple of minutes the England

players in their hotel behind me thought they would be facing

Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal, but then came a dramatic late winner for

Iceland against Austria. So next Monday night in Nice it will be

England against Iceland. Iceland have a population the size of

Leicester, but we know what Leicester did this season. Beyond

that, there are repercussions for England for finishing second in

their group to Wales. There are some big powers lying ahead, should they

get that far. The French, Spain, Italy and Germany. As for Wales and

Northern Ireland, they don't know yet who they will face. They will do

in the next couple of hours. There is a slim chance they could face

each other, but we will fight out by the ten o'clock news later.

Spare a thought for festival-goers heading to Glastonbury today

as they found themselves stuck in queues of up to 12 hours

with traffic chaos hitting all major routes to the site.

Organisers said rain and muddy ground conditions had caused delays

and had urged people "not to set off".

More than 100,000 people are due to descend

Our Entertainment Correspondent Lizo Mzimba is there.

These were some of the lucky ones. While they were pouring onto an

already sodden and multisite first thing this morning, thousands of

other festivalgoers were still stuck in the worst Glastonbury traffic

congestion of recent years. Many drivers reported they'd been stuck

overnight in barely moving queues, some of them for more than 12 hours.

A few passed the time by relating them mostly stationary experiences

on social media. If there are two things we Brits can do particularly

well it is queueing and rain. We are doing both pretty well right now.

Ground conditions after heavy downpours led to extremely slow

traffic access. Everything and anything available was drafted in to

help get vehicles through. But it all still resulted in massive

congestion on the narrow roads outside the site, a problem for

those travelling to Glastonbury and those living in the area. The

festival has grown to three times its size. It started on Wednesday

this year. We can't do business, we lose trade. Everyone wants to avoid

a repeat of today's problems for the rest of the week and future years,

because this is a festival that wants and needs the support and

goodwill of the local community. And so that the focus can once more be

on the Glastonbury Festival itself, where the only storm clouds hovering

over the event's future would be purely meteorological ones.

Let's go back to our top story now, and it's the final day

of campaigning ahead of tomorrow's vote in the EU referendum.

Chris Buckler is in Narrow Water on the Irish border,

Sian Lloyd is in Cardiff, but let's start with Sarah Smith,

Sarah, what's your assessment of the mood there?

The most remarkable thing about the campaign in Scotland is all the

major party leaders agree, they all want to remain, and they haven't

been any high-profile additions campaigning to leave. But if leaving

is what the voters decide across the UK, that could have profound

implications for Scotland. The MPEG Russian -- SNP leader Nicola

Sturgeon has said if there is a vote to leave the UK but Scotland votes

to remain, then that could trigger a second referendum on Scottish

independence. She is campaigning to remain, not least because she

doesn't want to be forced to have a second referendum that quickly and

in those circumstances and, anyway, the voters are getting a little

weary. This is our fourth major electoral event in little over 18

months. In Wales, leading politicians on both sides of the

divide are making a final push for the Welsh vote tonight in a

televised debate on BBC Wales. Over the last week of campaigning, there

has been a palpable sense of urgency, as politicians from both

sides had careered up and down the country trying to get their key

messages across. Remain have been talking about the lucrative

relationship between Wales and the EU, ?4 billion of structural funds

over the past 16 years to some of the poorest parts of the country,

and there has been talk about potential damage to the economy

should there be a withdrawal. But their opponents say those EU funded

projects will still be financed, should there be a vote to leave. The

South Wales valleys is an area that has benefited from EU money, but

with just hours to go before the polls open, both sides acknowledge

that there was a large section of the electorate that is still

undecided. They may be rock-solid Labour strongholds, but senior

Labour members of Remain are saying they are having to fight for the

vote. If you talk to people on the street of many of those towns, you

will hear concerns about immigration. Should those people

vote to leave in a tightly run contest here in Wales, it could be

crucial to the result. Narrow Water in County Down is a well named

place, because this small stretch of water marks the point where Northern

Ireland meet the Republic of Ireland. On this shared island, it

is no surprise much of the referendum debate has focused on

what would happen to the border if there was a vote to leave. At the

moment, it totally open and a large amount of trade text across -- takes

place across it. The Remain campaigners have argued customs

checkpoint or security would need to be introduced if the Irish border

was to become the place where the UK met the EU, but campaigners to leave

point out that a common travel area has existed for decades allowing

free movement and they say there is no need for that to change. Other

big issues here have been sovereignty, identity, no stranger

to debate in Northern Ireland, but people are normally discussing

whether they feel British or Irish or northern Irish. This referendum

has been different, about whether people feel European and, indeed how

European they want to be. The polls open in just

under 12 hours' time, with more than 46 million people

eligible to vote. Let's go over to Jeremy Vine

in our referendum studio, who can tell us how and when we'll

know the result. Here is the ballot paper. We have

enlarged it. This is what you will see tomorrow. The question, do you

want to remain or leave the European Union? You simply put your cross in

a box. The polls open at 7am and they close at 10pm. The counting

areas are bad councils around the UK, except in Northern Ireland,

where it is by Parliamentary constituency. The two votes go into

two big boxes, each vote counting the same. It's going to the Virtual

Downing Street and talk about the timings on the night. We are using

two colours, blue for Leave and yellow for Remain. We will see the

votes come up the street towards the door of number ten. By midnight, you

will see those lines beginning to appear. We have made them 50-50, for

obvious reasons. Newcastle and Sunderland are expected to come in

first. By 1am, Eurosceptical Basildon should report, as well as

the Isles of Scilly, which is the smallest counting area. Then a rush

of results by 2am, from Scotland, but to be leaning towards remaining,

places like Clackmannanshire and East Lothian, and even more results

by 3am. Durham, a lot of voters, the whole council area expected to be

50-50. A good way of looking at how the wind is blowing. Then the big

cities is not report, Birmingham, Middlesbrough in by 4am and, by 5am,

surely we will be getting a sense of it when Manchester and Liverpool

report. If not, we have to wait for the last councils to tell us their

reports, Cornwall and Shropshire, expected by 6am. Will it be this

close? At some point, one of these two lines will cross the dotted line

and be victorious. An extraordinary night in prospect in what is

normally our election studio but, tomorrow night, join us for our

referendum special. Let's have a final word now with our

Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, Whatever the result on Friday,

this campaign has changed It has and there are implications

for everything, really. There is rather a list it is worth reflecting

on. It affects how long David Cameron will stay on as Prime

Minister. It affects who replaces him one day, in terms of who is up

and down in those fierce Tory rivalries. It has implications for

how the Labour Party is really getting in touch with its core

voters. We have seen in this campaign that they haven't always

been able to get their traditional heartland voters to listen. There

are all sorts of things that the last six really quite fraught weeks

have changed, maybe for good. The biggest change will be how it

affects our place in the world, our relationship with the rest of the EU

if we stay in and our relationship with the rest of the EU and

everywhere else if we choose to leave. That would be uncharted

territory. It's a fundamental choice the like of which most of us will

probably never played again in our lifetimes. For people who have been

interested in this for many years, the political nerds, this is an

exciting moment but, -- but, let's face it, that isn't most of us. For

many of the voters we have met in the last few weeks, this has been

difficult and anxious. We have seen people really clashing and worrying

about doing the wrong thing. I think that's partly because this is a

referendum. Maybe that is inevitable. In a referendum --

general election, there are a whole range of parties. In a referendum,

by its nature, it is black and white, no room for maybe.

It's been quite quiet so far today but things will turn quite noisy for

some of us overnight. Thunderstorms now breaking out across the Channel

Islands and heading north east. Increasing chance through the

evening and overnight that we will see torrential thunderstorms

affecting some felt -- some south-eastern parts. An amber

warning and be prepared for significant disruption. A lots of

lightning and flooding is possible, particularly for parts of East

Sussex and Kent later. Some other south-eastern part seeing very

thundery showers. Fresher further north and west, with some sunshine

to start the day. There will be showers across Northern Ireland as

we get through the day, and some western parts of Scotland, with

intense down powers -- downpours in East Anglia and the south-east

fading away. Some sunshine in the afternoon for Scotland but sharp

showers out west. Feeling quite pleasant, mid-to high teens. Sharp

showers for Northern Ireland, but not before some sunshine. A lot of

blue sky across the Scottish borders and nor -- more northern and western

parts. Glastonbury should get away with it. Not so further east, with

torrential downpours coming up from France and affecting south-eastern

areas. They could be quite nasty, rumbling into the night across parts

of south-eastern and East. Friday, a different of day in the east with

some sunshine, we will have lost the humidity and some sharp showers

north and west. On BBC One, we now join the BBC's

news teams where you are.