20/02/2016 BBC Wales Today

Good evening.

The Welsh Secretary, Stephen Crabb, has said he will back

David Cameron's campaign to remain within the European Union.

The Vote Leave campaigners have already been out

here as it was announced the referendum will be held on 23rd

June.

Even before David Cameron announced the date of the EU referendum this

lunch time, these campaigners to leave the union were out

on the streets of Monmouth.

They may have already made up their minds,

but with four months to go, there are plenty

who are still unsure.

Following an emergency meeting in Downing Street to discuss

David Cameron's renegotiation of Britain's membership of the EU,

his Cabinet have now agreed to recommend that the UK remains

in a reformed European Union.

Five Cabinet Ministers disagree and will now be

campaigning to leave.

But earlier the Welsh Secretary gave his support to David Cameron

and the stay in campaign.

I think the deal that he secured last night, since I know more detail

about it, does provide a strong and pragmatic

basis to say on balance we should stay in.

David Cameron says the deal he struck yesterday means that

Britain will be better, safer and stronger in Europe.

It includes recalculating child benefit payments and in work

benefits to migrant workers and providing greater protection

for Britain's financial services, but this Euro-sceptic remains

unconvinced.

We know it is not reformed EU.

I believe strongly that the people of Wales,

that they will vote for us to leave.

The debate will certainly intensify between now and the end of June.

But in the meantime in Wales, there is an Assembly election to be

getting on with.

The European issue is confusing anyway, but it is not confusing

enough that they shouldn't want to vote for both of them.

It is actually getting people out twice in two months,

that's the difficult bit.

This is how the campaigning looked in Wales before the last referendum

on EU membership in 1975.

The fashion may have changed, but the question is similar -

should we remain or leave?

A family-run chain of bakeries in Anglesey and Gwynedd

has closed today.

The Castle Bakery started in 1885 and had shops in Caernarfon,

Bangor, Menai Bridge, Holyhead and Beaumaris.

Dozens of people are losing their jobs.

The First Minister Carwyn Jones says Labour is facing its toughest

ever Assembly campaign.

At the party conference in Llandudno, he said the election

came down to a straight choice between him or the leader

of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies.

It was his most personal speech yet at a Labour Conference.

The warm-up act, his wife.

Carwyn Jones said he was prepared to take flak on tough decisions

and that Welsh Labour knew all about the kind

of aspiration his mam and dad wanted for him,

but as a result of what he called the ghetto politics of Ukip,

he set out the scale of the challenge.

This will be our toughest ever Assembly election campaign,

coming off the back of a difficult general election, trying to manage

the record cut to our budget, fighting a Tory Government,

doing everything that they can to undermine us, and for another

reason too, the Ukip challenge.

There was plenty in this speech setting out new policy ideas.

So we had lots on new nursery places and apprentices,

but it was also an opportunity to try to deal with fears

and criticism.

When it came to newly devolved income tax powers,

he said under Labour, they would be no increase in income

tax and in relation to the criticism that Labour's just been in power

in Wales, for too long, he said he would make no apology

for trying to win the contest again and again.

Jeremy Corbyn attracted plenty of attention.

There have been damaging internal rows since he became leader.

Today there was a call for unity and Mr Corbyn used his speech

to attack the Conservatives on their record on steel.

They stood by as the steel industry got into trouble.

As jobs were lost and communities suffered like in Port Talbot.

Across Europe other countries took action.

The Tories stood by and let the jobs go.

The party has been in power in Wales for nearly 20 years.

It faces many challenges now, maybe the biggest is persuading

voters to give them even longer in power.

Football, and Cardiff City have beaten Brighton 4-1

in the Championship, scoring three goals in the first-half.

In League Two Newport drew 1-1 away with Exeter,

and in the National League Wrexham are currently 2-0 up against

Welling.

The weather now and it will be largely cloudy and mild tonight

with some rain.

Tomorrow's looking cloudy and breezy with more rain,

particularly over Snowdonia.

Highs of 13 Celsius.

I'll be back with our next update at 6.15pm tomorrow.

Have a good evening.

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