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Tonight at ten, on the eve of referendum day,

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the last-minute campaigning to try to convince millions of voters.

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For David Cameron of Remain and Boris Johnson of Leave,

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it's been a day of reinforcing their basic campaign messages.

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The Prime Minister has been telling voters again

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that staying in the EU is the only option that makes sense.

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Go out and vote remain for a bigger, better Britain

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inside a reformed EU - stronger, safer, better off.

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After nine weeks of relentless campaigning,

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Boris Johnson was telling voters

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that this was their opportunity to "take back control".

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This is a great moment for our country

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and a time to be optimistic about what Britain can achieve.

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The forthcoming success of the day will be down to us coming out of

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Europe... Why are we leaping into the unknown?!

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And even in these closing hours of the campaign,

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as millions prepare to visit the polling stations.

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We're in the BBC's referendum studio,

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with all the news of the final stages

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just nine hours before those polling stations open.

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Also tonight, we report from Libya, where government-backed forces have

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made significant gains against the fighters of so-called Islamic State.

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The buildings that they're targeting right now contain snipers.

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They've been mapping them for the past two weeks,

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thanks to a drone and British special forces.

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One of many vigils held for Jo Cox, the Labour MP killed last week.

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Today would have been her 42nd birthday.

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for the Home Nations in the next stages?

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Coming up in Euro 2016 Sportsday, a last-minute winner against Austria

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means it's Iceland who will play England in the last 16.

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We'll have all the action on the final day

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Good evening from the BBC's referendum studio.

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This is where we'll be covering the results tomorrow night

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from across the United Kingdom, as tens of millions of voters

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decide Britain's future in the European Union.

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The stakes are extremely high, and that's been underlined

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by the intensity of campaigning on this final day before polling.

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David Cameron declared once again that Britain

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would would be "stronger, safer and better off"

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Boris Johnson repeated his campaign theme, that this was

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an opportunity for Britain to "take back control" of its affairs.

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Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg,

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spent time with both campaigns in the closing hours.

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They'd almost pucker up to anything to get out the vote.

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By half seven, the main Tory face of leaving the EU

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Fantastic, you're the salt the earth!

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An hour later, the Prime Minister on the factory floor again,

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Your decision could change his career.

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Vote Remain! Thank you very much!

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Ramming home his message with a little help from his friends.

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If they vote to leave on the basis of half-truths

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

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of our prosperity will have some very serious questions to answer.

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Is he wondering if he'll also be a former Prime Minister

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To Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire,

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the closing hours of a campaign that's been vibrant and noisy.

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And if the polls tell us anything, a result that could be very tight.

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Thank you for coming out this morning.

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But what do you think is going to happen?

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What is your sense? It's very...

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It's impossible to know, I hope everybody who wants to take

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back control of our democracy will come out and vote tomorrow,

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and I'd just say to people who are making their minds up

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that I think the safest thing to do is to vote leave.

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Because if we don't, we are just locked in this thing,

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it will go on and on with no reform at all.

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A senior politician once said to me, the more hands they shake,

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It's not quite as simple as that, but he's giving it a try.

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But why would you leap into the unknown?

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But there's been anger and anxiety on both sides too.

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Can you shut up? No, I can't shut up!

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You don't want to listen to me because you're wrong!

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That is why you don't want to listen!

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You don't want to listen because I'm 17 and you think I'm illiterate!

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But what the UK decides about the EU could affect our other Union.

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But this is THE moment for the man whose years of campaigning for out

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pushed to this decision - a day away.

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Vote with your heart, vote with your soul.

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Vote with pride in this country and its people,

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and together we can make tomorrow our Independence Day.

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Whether battle bus, plane, helicopter,

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or simply walking in wellies, whatever it takes today.

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The leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn...

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The leader is a reluctant Remain, but will his voters really listen?

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The vote is tomorrow. Do what's best for our people.

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Vote for jobs, vote for rights at work, vote for our NHS,

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vote to remain in the European Union.

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But on the south coast at lunchtime,

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the most bitter fight has been among Tory friends and rivals.

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More and more people, I find, have been warm and responsive

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and recognise that voting leave is the optimistic thing to do.

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It's three o'clock, and the school buses are all lined up,

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and the Prime Minister is on his home turf

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he wants this choice to be about the next generation.

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Might he be wondering, if only they they all had a vote!

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A couple of weeks you ago, you told me you weren't worried

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about the result, but it seems so uncertain, you must be now.

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Obviously, I think, for the sake of the country,

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it's really important we vote to stay in, because that is

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how we're going to have a stronger economy, that is how we're going

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that we're going to be stronger as a country.

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So in this last day, we need to make all those arguments,

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and we need to encourage people

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to get out there and vote, and vote to remain.

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What's your hunch? Hiya, how are you doing?

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

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The referendum has already changed our politics.

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Laura Kuennsberg, BBC News, Hertfordshire.

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There are 46 million people registered to vote

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in tomorrow's referendum, all of them being asked to decide

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whether Britain should leave the European Union

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43 years after it joined the European Economic Community

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One of the main claims of the Remain campaign has been that further

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but president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker,

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said today that there can be no renegotiation

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Well, as the campaign leaders were criss- crossing

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the country, so was deputy political editor

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John Pienaar to see what voters made of today's final push.

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Fun to watch these campaign visits,

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but now most people's minds are made up,

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What are you going to do? Leave.

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Why are you going to vote to leave? Because I'm proud of me country.

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This country built the world, really.

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They're insulting our country by saying we can't manage,

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Cameron has put me off it, for a start.

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How did he do that? Well, the lies.

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Lies, he comes out with everything he wants to tell you.

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The Boris Johnson circus moves on, past others just as concerned,

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Have you made up your mind how you're going to vote?

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I'm not definitely sure, to be perfectly honest.

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But I'm more concerned about my job, all the things like that.

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My son actually is doing economics at school in sixth form.

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He's been giving me a bit of an earhole blasting.

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What has he been telling you? He's been telling me to stay in.

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But worries about migrants keeping wages down keep coming up.

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They're happy to work at ?4 or ?5 an hour,

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less than I'm willing to work at, which is the norm.

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What do you do? Well, what can you do?

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What do you do? I do a couple of things,

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I'm in finance but I've also got the trucking industry.

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In Banbury, the news in the town is David Cameron

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You're in charge here, what's your name?

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My name's Charlie. How are you going to vote?

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I'm going to vote in. Tell me why?

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I like the fact that my brother lives out in Spain, he has

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made a life for himself there, he has his own company and is happy.

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I don't know how it would affect him.

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And if I want to up sticks tomorrow and go to Italy, I can.

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OK, guys, sorry to gate-crash your party.

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I'm going to do a poll here, straightaway, in or out Europe?

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I think our economy is a lot stronger in the EU.

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I also think a lot of people are voting out because they hadn't

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decided, because they don't know enough information.

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But I think, why would you take that risk?

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And I don't know much about politics anyway,

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You're an outer, why are you an outer?

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Various reasons, but I think the one that's most important to me

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is my vote is for a government, and I give them a mandate to govern,

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and I don't ever give Europe a mandate to govern us,

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even if tempers have been tested on the way.

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The past nine weeks of campaigning have been dominated

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for the most part by two issues - the economy and immigration.

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Let's consider how those arguments have developed.

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In a moment, we can talk to our home editor,

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but first our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed,

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Your sense of how the economic argument has progressed during this

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campaign? Well, certainly, Huw, there has been a blizzard of

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statistics. When it comes to this most important issue at the heart of

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the referendum, the economy. What would the consequences be if Britain

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remained in left the European Union? I think amid all the noise, the and

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counterclaims, there are two important points that can be

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defined. Firstly, most serious economic organisations say that in

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the short term, at least, there would be a negative economic impact

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if Britain were to leave the European Union. They suggest that

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trade with the EU would become more difficult and the EU is our most

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important export market. They say that uncertainty could damage

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growth. And then the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, he

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said that Britain could face recession, which would be a threat

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to our jobs, to house prices, and to our incomes. Now, over the longer

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term, forecasts are far more uncertain. Some economists that back

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Brexit say that, yes, there could be short-term uncertainty, but over the

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longer term the UK economy would flourish, freed, has pace and, from

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the shackles of the EU. They say red tape would be reduced, they argue we

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would be able to sign easier free-trade deals with important

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trading partners like the US and China, without the need for

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agreement with 27 other EU members. I have just come back from Windsor,

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where the former Governor of the Bank of England gave a bit of a

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health warning about all of these economic arguments. He said some of

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them were exaggerated, whether it is the plague of locusts on one side,

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or the Sunny Abrol and is on the other. I think some economists would

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agree with that. -- sunny apple ands. A former Clinton aide gave a

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great and so when he was as what wins elections, he said, it's the

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economy, stupid. Polls do suggest that voters are swayed by economic

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argument is. Whether they are swayed towards Remain or Leave, we will

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only know once the polls are closed. Indeed, thanks very much, Kamal

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Ahmed, in the City of London. Mark Easton, we heard a lot about freedom

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of movement initially, and then more specifically the argument about

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immigration, what did you make of it? For most people in Britain,

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their most direct experience of the European Union in the last few years

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has probably been the site of a Polish supermarket opening in the

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high street. The last 12 years has seen the most extraordinary

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phenomenon, 1.7 million EU citizens coming to live in Britain, often in

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areas which have been unused to these foreign arrivals. That is why

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immigration is one of the key issues for so many, people feel uneasy

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about change, and because of those EU wills and free movement,

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politicians will tell them we can do very little or nothing about it. So

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if we leave the EU, Britain could also leave the single market. That

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would mean we are no longer bound by the rules of free movement, and we

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could introduce what the Leave campaign calls an Australian style

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points system, pretty much as we already have four non-EU migrants.

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But if people think that this is a vote to stop foreigners coming in,

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it is not that simple. Both Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have said

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that they are pro-migration, and they will not say that immigration

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would go down if we leave. On the Remain side, they also talk about

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controlling immigration. So the argument on this issue, I think, is

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not really about numbers. It is about control, and whether shaping

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the kind of immigration that Britain wants can be achieved better in or

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out. Mark, thanks very much again, Mark Easton, our home editor, with

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his thoughts on the immigration debate.

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So with millions of votes being counted at hundreds

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how are those results likely to come in

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and when might we have a clear idea of the final result?

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Jeremy Vine is here with a look at what we can expect.

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Yes. We have here a ballot paper that has been enlarged for you, so

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you can see the question you might well be answering tomorrow. Very

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simple. Remain a member or leave the European Union, two boxes. You put

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your cross in one or other of them. The counting will happen in council

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areas across the UK with the one exception of Northern Ireland where

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it happens in Westminster constituency. In a way, that doesn't

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matter. The votes are put, basically, into two boxes and

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weighed against each other. Every vote counts the same where ever you

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are in the country. Let's look at how we are analysing the votes when

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they come in. Welcome to our virtual Downing Street. Blue for leave and

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yellow for remain. We will build them from the far end of Downing

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Street. For illustration, I will make it a 50/50 scenario here. We

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are expecting Newcastle and Sunderland to be in by midnight.

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1.00am a result from highly euro sceptical Basildon and the Isles of

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Scilly, 1,700 voters there. By 2.00am in the morning we are

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expected results from Scotland and East Lothian. By 3.00am bigger

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numbers, Thanet and Bristol. Fascinatingly, Durham. As well as

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being a large area, not a city the council area for - ham, it's a

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50/50, part of this election. Fascinating to see which way Durham

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goes. 4.00am in the morning the big cities come in, including Birmingham

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and Middlesbrough and Leeds and Cardiff. Is it still going to be

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50/50 at that stage. If so we wait until 5.00am and get more big

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numbers from Manchester, Liverpool and Bradford. If it's that close at

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5.00am we might wait to of.00am when we will hear from Cornwall and

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Shropshire. By 7.00am in the morning, one of these bars, blue for

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leave, yellow for remain, should have passed the winning line that

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leads back to Number Ten Downing Street. We have a fascinating night

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in prospect for you in here what is norm Alli the election studio but

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tomorrow will be our referendum result studio. Huw. Looking forward

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to it. Thank you very much, Jeremy Vine for us.

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let's get some thoughts from Brussels and from Westminster.

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We can talk to our Europe editor, Katya Adler, in Brussels,

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and our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg.

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about the mood in the rest of Europe tonight?

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What is being said? Huw, tonight across Europe leaders are on the

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edge of their seat worried about the UK referendum. None of them want

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Britain to leave. They say it as one of the big powers alongside France

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and Germany. Also here, across the Channel, the UK is seen very much as

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one of those fundamental powers. There is a worry that if the UK

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leaves, this could lead to contagion elsewhere. That is a huge concern

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for the leaders. That's why they say if the UK chooses to leave they

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would get tough over a trade deal. UK is an attractive trade partner,

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they admit it, but they say they don't want the process to be

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painless. They want to put others off leaving. If you look at Germany

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and France, for example, they have key elections next year and they

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don't want to encourage eurosceptic parties waiting in the wings. If you

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look at some of those reasons why the Leave campaign is popular in the

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UK, those demands to get powers back from Brussels, objections to borders

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without controls, to migration policies, allegations of Brussels

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bureaucracy, these complaints echo across the EU. That is why recently

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you heard the words "EU" and "reform" comes from the mouths of

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those you might not expect. Angela Merkel today and the President of

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the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker said, it's true, the EU

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meddles too much. Katya, thank you very much. Straight to Westminster

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and Laura. Here we are, we are on the eve of referendum day. We talked

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so much in the last few weeks of this very hard-hitting campaign.

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What are your thoughts tonight? Huw, there are so many strands to all of

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this. Through the campaign the themes have been the same, the

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economy and immigration. The grumpiness has been the same, bad

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tempered and bruising sometimes. There has been one big change. If we

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think back to the start of all this, which seems like a very long time

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ago now, the narrative was very much David versus Goliath. The outers

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felt in a short campaign it will be difficult for them to build up to a

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position where they looked credibly, potentially, like winners in autumn

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of this. That narrative has completely changed and in a part of

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the world, in Westminster, where people like to feel that they are in

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the know, they like to feel they have the inside track, almost every

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conversation I've been having in the last couple of days ends up with one

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conclusion - it does feel like it is a apparently just too close to call.

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Very informed people, people very close to the heart of things are

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saying privately again and again, we just don't know. Rather than still

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trying to persuade people, politicians are packing up their

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platforms and turning their attention to getting out the vote.

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In a race that appears to be so tight, the proportion of voters on

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either side who feel enthused or worried enough to turn up to vote,

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it's turnout that crucial number, that momentum, that could make the

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difference. Laura, thanks. We'll talk a little more at the end of the

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programme. Katya Adler and Laura Kuenssberg.

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A reminder that there's more referendum news,

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with blogs from Laura and Katya and others, on our website.

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Let's turn to some of the day's other news.

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In Libya, government-backed forces have made significant gains

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against the fighters of so-called Islamic State.

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Local militia are being supported in a major offensive

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The fighting has been going on since last month,

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and yesterday was the toughest day so far, with nearly 50 fighters

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killed and over 140 injured on the government side.

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Our Middle East correspondent, Quentin Sommerville,

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and cameraman, Fred Scott, have just returned from the front

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line near the main IS stronghold of Sirte.

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Some viewers may find parts of their report upsetting.

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On another continent, the war against the so-called

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Many of these Libyan fighters are fasting for Ramadan.

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After two weeks of hard fighting, they're weary, but they're readying

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for the next offensive and bringing more fire power

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They're close enough to IS to shout insults down the street.

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IS has held this city for more than a year.

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On Muammar Gaddafi's Conference Centre, their flag looms large.

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We were the first journalists to make it to the Islamic State's

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It's the job of the men of Brigade 166 to stop IS escaping by sea.

:22:52.:23:04.

"The only problem we're facing is suicide car bombs.

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We're dealing with them by taking out their tyres and firing heavy

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There would be a battle in the morning.

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These men have already lost nine comrades.

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500 meters away we watched the north of Sirte, there there was no rest.

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They say this is a dirty war, neither side is taking much

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In the morning, the next push came from the south.

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These men have taken a lot of ground in a very short space of time,

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IS are over that hill, they're cut off and

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This is the next offensive to face them.

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The deeper they move into the city, the greater the risk.

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They've got little in the way of air support.

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This battle is being fought the old fashioned way.

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The buildings that they're targeting right now contain snipers.

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They've been mapping them for the past two weeks, thanks

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to a drone from British Special Forces.

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These fighters are young, but some are veterans

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One joked, "take my picture for me, I'm going to die today."

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And this was their bloodiest day yet.

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50 men, mostly from nearby Misrata, died in the battle.

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Some were taken straight from the ambulance to body bags.

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Mahamood said he had to fight, "IS beheaded our children,

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they crucified them and threw them off buildings.

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They've terrorised people and abused their faith

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Their country and their faith is at stake.

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For Libya, only more sacrifice lies ahead.

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Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, Sirte.

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President Putin of Russia has blamed the West for failing to prevent

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In a speech to the Russian Parliament - on the 75th anniversary

:25:40.:25:45.

of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union -

:25:46.:25:51.

President Putin said that some Western leaders had underestimated

:25:52.:25:53.

He then added that present-day leaders were in danger

:25:54.:25:59.

of making the same mistake over international terrorism.

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The Labour MP Jo Cox has been remembered at vigils around

:26:03.:26:05.

the world on what would have been her 42nd birthday.

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She died last week after being shot and stabbed

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Thousands of people, including her two young

:26:11.:26:15.

children, attended an event in London's Trafalgar Square

:26:16.:26:17.

as our chief correspondent, Gavin Hewitt, reports.

:26:18.:26:21.

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

:26:22.:26:23.

Cuillin and Lejla, travelled down the Thames today to join

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Today would have been her 42nd birthday, it's a week

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since she was killed while holding her MPs

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Several thousand people had gathered in Trafalgar Square,

:26:36.:26:43.

many of them were holding pictures of Jo Cox, some of them had come

:26:44.:26:47.

from Yorkshire, some signed pledges supporting her causes.

:26:48.:26:51.

Her husband came on stage and spoke of how the family had coped

:26:52.:26:54.

We try to remember not how cruelly she's been taken from us,

:26:55.:27:02.

but how unbelievably lucky we were to have her

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He then spoke about his wife's killing.

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What a beautifully irony it is that an act designed to advance hatred

:27:14.:27:16.

has instead generated such an outpouring of love.

:27:17.:27:18.

Among those who spoke was the Noble Laureate,

:27:19.:27:24.

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

:27:25.:27:33.

Once again, the extremists have failed.

:27:34.:27:38.

Jo Cox's death has been a key moment in the referendum campaign,

:27:39.:27:46.

sparking reflection on the tone of intense political debate,

:27:47.:27:49.

on how claims and counter claims are framed.

:27:50.:27:52.

But today was a day for tributes to a campaigning MP, from friends,

:27:53.:27:55.

The Glastonbury Festival has announced it's now open for business

:27:56.:28:07.

following a day of gridlocked roads and disruption.

:28:08.:28:11.

Some people trying to get to the event in Somerset were stuck

:28:12.:28:14.

Organisers said rain and muddy conditions had caused delays and had

:28:15.:28:21.

The long queues also affected local residents,

:28:22.:28:27.

with some pupils arriving late for school exams.

:28:28.:28:33.

Football, and after today's action the home nations now know who'll

:28:34.:28:36.

they'll be playing in the first knockout round of Euro 2016.

:28:37.:28:39.

Our correspondent, Hywel Griffith, is with the Welsh team in the port

:28:40.:28:42.

Well, Huw, it's a system so complicated it's closer to the

:28:43.:28:57.

European song contest than European football. The results are in. We

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know who the three home nations will play. Well, two of them will play

:29:02.:29:06.

each other. On Saturday in Paris it's Wales versus Northern Ireland.

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Two teams who know each other very well. They played in a friendly only

:29:10.:29:13.

in March. The result of that one a draw. Of course, that can't finish

:29:14.:29:17.

that way on Saturday. One of them must win and one of them will

:29:18.:29:20.

definitely go through to the quarter-finals. What about the third

:29:21.:29:24.

home nation? England, next Monday, they play the tournament's smallest

:29:25.:29:29.

nation, Iceland, who, with a late, late goal, managed to secure their

:29:30.:29:32.

place in the tournament. For most of the day it seemed as if England

:29:33.:29:38.

would play against Portugal. I'm sure Roy Hodgson's men were cheering

:29:39.:29:43.

in that Icelandic goal. That game in Monday in Nice. The result of the

:29:44.:29:47.

night belongs to the Republic of Ireland who tonight beat Italy,

:29:48.:29:49.

keeping their place in the tournament. Their game is against

:29:50.:29:55.

the hosts, France on Sunday. OK. We are look forward to it all. Thanks

:29:56.:30:00.

very much. High we will Griffith there for us in.

:30:01.:30:03.

Rory McIlroy has pulled out of competing

:30:04.:30:05.

at this summer's Olympic Games in Rio

:30:06.:30:07.

because of concerns about the Zika virus.

:30:08.:30:08.

The four-time Major winner - who was due to represent Ireland -

:30:09.:30:11.

said that although the risk of infection is considered low,

:30:12.:30:14.

it wasn't a risk he was prepared to take.

:30:15.:30:16.

So the polling stations will be open in just over eight hours' time

:30:17.:30:19.

in every part of the United Kingdom, as voters make the biggest decision

:30:20.:30:25.

on our place in Europe since the 1970s.

:30:26.:30:27.

The campaigning on this last day has been relentless.

:30:28.:30:30.

So let's take stock with my colleagues -

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Chris Buckler in Northern Ireland, near the border

:30:34.:30:36.

with the Republic of Ireland, Sian Lloyd in Cardiff,

:30:37.:30:40.

and first our Scotland editor, Sarah Smith, in Glasgow.

:30:41.:30:42.

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

:30:43.:30:52.

Well, the really intriguing thing about the campaign in Scotland has

:30:53.:30:57.

been that all the major party leaders agree, they all want to

:30:58.:31:01.

remain, and there have not been any high-profile politicians campaigning

:31:02.:31:04.

to leave. But if leaving is what the voters of the UK do decide, it could

:31:05.:31:08.

have really profound implications. In. That is because the leader of

:31:09.:31:14.

the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, has said repeatedly that if Scotland is, in

:31:15.:31:18.

her words, dragged out of the EU against its will, it could trigger a

:31:19.:31:25.

second referendum on Scottish independence. That is not what she

:31:26.:31:28.

says she wants, she is campaigning for a vote to remain, because she

:31:29.:31:31.

doesn't really want a referendum in those circumstances quite so

:31:32.:31:34.

quickly. And anyway, voters in Scotland are starting to look pretty

:31:35.:31:38.

weary, because this is the fourth major electoral event in this

:31:39.:31:44.

country in a little over 18 months. In Wales, leading politicians from

:31:45.:31:48.

both sides of the divide have been making a final push for the Welsh

:31:49.:31:54.

vote tonight in a televised debate on BBC Wales, and over the course of

:31:55.:31:57.

the past week in campaigning, there has been a palpable sense of urgency

:31:58.:32:03.

here. On both sides, politicians careering up and down the country,

:32:04.:32:07.

trying to get their key messages across. Remain reminding people of

:32:08.:32:11.

what they call a lucrative relationship between Wales and

:32:12.:32:16.

Europe, ?4 billion of structural aid over the past 16 years to some of

:32:17.:32:20.

the poorest parts of the country, including the South Wales Valleys.

:32:21.:32:24.

There has been talk that a withdrawal could damage the economy.

:32:25.:32:28.

But there are opponents say that EU thundered projects would still be

:32:29.:32:33.

financed if there was a vote to leave. In the traditional Labour

:32:34.:32:36.

heartlands, there are serious concerns over immigration, talk

:32:37.:32:40.

about disillusionment with politics. A vote to leave in this tightly run

:32:41.:32:46.

contest could be crucial to the result here. Narrow water here in

:32:47.:32:52.

County Down is a well named place, because a short stretch of water

:32:53.:32:57.

behind me marks the point when Northern Ireland needs the Republic

:32:58.:33:01.

of Ireland, and on the shared island much of the referendum debate has

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focused on the question of what would happen to that border if there

:33:05.:33:09.

was to be a vote to leave. As it is, there is much trade across this open

:33:10.:33:14.

border every day. The Remain campaigners have argued that customs

:33:15.:33:17.

checkpoints or perhaps even extra security might have to be introduced

:33:18.:33:21.

if the Irish border were to become the point where the UK Med the EU.

:33:22.:33:26.

However, Leave campaigners have pointed out that the Common travel

:33:27.:33:30.

area has existed for decades, allowing travel between the UK and

:33:31.:33:36.

Ireland, and that doesn't need to change. Other questions being

:33:37.:33:42.

discussed here are questions about identity and sovereignty, the

:33:43.:33:45.

Rangers to the political debate here in Northern Ireland, but often

:33:46.:33:49.

people talk about whether they feel British, Irish or Northern Irish.

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This has been different, it is about whether people feel European and,

:33:54.:33:58.

indeed, Huw, how European they want to be. Thanks very much, Chris

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Buckler, Sian Lloyd and Sarah Smith. Some views for you from Wales,

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Scotland and Northern Ireland. In England, where immigration

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and the economy have also featured prominently,

:34:09.:34:10.

for some voters the central question has been one of sovereignty

:34:11.:34:12.

and Britain's place in the world. Our diplomatic correspondent,

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James Landale, has been talking Welcome to Melton Mowbray

:34:16.:34:17.

in Leicestershire, home to stilton cheese, the town's famous pork pies,

:34:18.:34:22.

and one of England's oldest markets. Home too to voters for whom

:34:23.:34:26.

this referendum but about something

:34:27.:34:30.

much more fundamental. We was a great nation once,

:34:31.:34:37.

let's bring it back. We should govern yourselves,

:34:38.:34:41.

shouldn't we? Yeah. We don't really need

:34:42.:34:43.

to be told what to do. Why? Why? We'll be in

:34:44.:34:45.

control of ourselves. For many, tomorrow's referendum

:34:46.:34:51.

boils down to one question - should our laws be made

:34:52.:34:54.

in Brussels or Westminster? But in a town whose pork pie

:34:55.:34:59.

is protected from cheap imitation

:35:00.:35:02.

by EU regulations, some fear more sovereignty

:35:03.:35:05.

could mean less influence. I want to be making decisions

:35:06.:35:09.

with them for the good of the Continent

:35:10.:35:14.

and wider people. If the EU decides it for me, that's

:35:15.:35:16.

just as good for me as Westminster. We probably get a fairer

:35:17.:35:20.

debate within Europe. When Britain joined the European

:35:21.:35:23.

Economic Community in 1973, in return for a say

:35:24.:35:29.

over its biggest market. But that was a step too far

:35:30.:35:34.

for Richard Stubbs, a farmer from Derby,

:35:35.:35:36.

who thinks Britain should leave and look for new markets,

:35:37.:35:40.

just as he's done today. I've taken a step forward

:35:41.:35:42.

to come to the markets myself, and my opinion is that

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it's the same as our country, we don't need all these other places

:35:46.:35:49.

coming and helping themselves. You've got to have the confidence,

:35:50.:35:52.

you know, to go and stand in there, find the dealers, find the customers

:35:53.:35:55.

and sell to them. Do you think Britain should

:35:56.:35:58.

be like that, too? But Matthew O'Callaghan,

:35:59.:36:04.

chairman of the local Pork Pie Association, fears losing a seat

:36:05.:36:08.

at the EU's top table. We give up some of our sovereignty

:36:09.:36:13.

to the United Nations as being members of the United Nations,

:36:14.:36:16.

we give up some of our sovereignty locally to local council,

:36:17.:36:19.

to Westminster. You know, you have to accept that

:36:20.:36:21.

if you want to get the benefits from food tourism related

:36:22.:36:24.

to pork pies and stilton cheese that could actually possibly

:36:25.:36:31.

disappear almost overnight. This campaign's been dominated

:36:32.:36:36.

by claim and counterclaim about what impact leaving

:36:37.:36:42.

the EU might have on immigration and the economy,

:36:43.:36:44.

but much of that is speculation. What we know for certain is that

:36:45.:36:47.

who decides the laws that affect markets like these and others

:36:48.:36:53.

is on the ballot paper. Should we keep our seat in Brussels

:36:54.:36:55.

or return powers to Westminster? By demanding more control

:36:56.:37:01.

over immigration, this is a debate where Leave

:37:02.:37:05.

have made much of the running. Remain say it's an illusion

:37:06.:37:09.

of sovereignty that would leave Britain

:37:10.:37:12.

with less control. James Langdale, BBC News,

:37:13.:37:14.

Melton Mowbray. Time for a final word with our

:37:15.:37:18.

political editor, Laura Kuenssberg. Laura, the next few hours

:37:19.:37:24.

will have a profound impact It's certainly well, Huw, and

:37:25.:37:38.

referenda, by their very nature, force the nation into two boxes. I

:37:39.:37:42.

do not think that has been a comfortable process for the country,

:37:43.:37:45.

and it certainly will not be comfortable in the aftermath,

:37:46.:37:49.

whatever the result. What happens to the Tory party, to David Cameron

:37:50.:37:53.

after all these bruising rows, has the Labour Party just really

:37:54.:37:56.

discovered how disconnected they are from the voters that they used to

:37:57.:38:00.

rely on? More positively, perhaps, has a new generation of younger

:38:01.:38:04.

voters been mobilised for the first time? But you know, more than any of

:38:05.:38:10.

that, it is so rare as a country, as individuals, that we have a moment

:38:11.:38:13.

like this, a chance where we go into the polling booth, draw back the

:38:14.:38:17.

curtain, pick up the pencil and put a cross in a box to make a decision

:38:18.:38:22.

that has profound implications not just for us here in the UK, but

:38:23.:38:27.

potentially could change the political map of a whole continent.

:38:28.:38:32.

It really is time for deep breaths all round, Huw, because the decision

:38:33.:38:38.

is as big as that. Laura, thanks very much, at Westminster, Laura

:38:39.:38:39.

Kuenssberg there. That's all from us in

:38:40.:38:41.

the BBC referendum studio. The results programme will start

:38:42.:38:44.

here tomorrow night at 9:55pm, with all the news as it unfolds,

:38:45.:38:46.

right through the night, until the verdict of

:38:47.:38:48.

the voters is clear, In a moment, the news where you are,

:38:49.:38:50.

but we leave you with some of the most memorable words

:38:51.:38:56.

and images - including some flash photography -

:38:57.:38:58.

of this referendum campaign. I shall go to Parliament

:38:59.:39:00.

and propose that the British people decide our future in Europe

:39:01.:39:07.

through an in-out referendum We have a chance

:39:08.:39:09.

actually to do something. I have a chance actually

:39:10.:39:21.

to do something. I would like to see

:39:22.:39:23.

a new relationship based more on trade,

:39:24.:39:25.

on co-operation, but as I say, with much less

:39:26.:39:28.

of this supranational element. we are safer inside

:39:29.:39:34.

a reformed European Union. Why are you leaping

:39:35.:39:44.

into the unknown? We're not leaping

:39:45.:39:58.

into the unknown... We don't know what it's

:39:59.:40:01.

like outside of Europe. But the economy has changed

:40:02.:40:03.

since we last were out of Europe. Has it or has it not?

:40:04.:40:11.

No!

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