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There are just a few hours of campaigning left and both sides | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
of the EU referendum debate are making their last | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
Tempers flare as both sides tour the country | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
The success of the UK will be down to us coming out. Do not believe | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
this to the unknown. -- leave this. Go out and vote Remain | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
for a bigger, better Britain Stronger, safer, better off - | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
a day to go, let's do it. This is a great moment | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
for our country and a time to be optimistic about what Britain can | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
achieve when we believe We'll be reporting from the length | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
and breadth of the UK to assess the national mood ahead | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
of tomorrow's crucial vote. And we'll tell you how | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
and when you're likely Commemorating Jo Cox - | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
events take place across the world on would have been | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
the MP's 42nd birthday. A bit of R for the England | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
captain ahead of their next And mud, glorious mud at Glastonbury | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
as some festival goers get stuck in traffic jams lasting | :01:04. | :01:14. | |
five hours to get there. And in the sport, it is | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
the conclusion of the group Tonight we will know the complete | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
line-up of the last 16. It, of course, includes England, | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland. The date of the EU referendum | :01:26. | :01:47. | |
was announced four months ago. Politicians on both sides | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
of the argument have been travelling the length and breadth | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
of the country in a last-ditch On the Leave side, | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Boris Johnson called for a totally new relationship | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
with the European Union - branding it "failing | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
and dysfunctional". David Cameron has insisted | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
that the UK is safer, stronger and better if it stays | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
in the EU. Our Political Editor, | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Laura Kuenssberg, has 5-iron. London. They had almost -- | :02:14. | :02:29. | |
they would almost back up to anything to get the vote! By 730A, | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
the main Tory face of leaving the EU was with supporters in Essex. One | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
hour later, the Prime Minister on the factory floor again, this time | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
with Harriet Harman. Your decision could change his career. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
APPLAUSE. Ramming home his message with help | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
from his friends. If they vote to leave on the basis of half-truths | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
and untruths and misunderstandings, then pretty soon, the grave-diggers | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
of posterity -- prosperity will have serious questions to answer. Is he | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
wondering if you will also be a former Prime Minister by the | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
weekend? Ashby dinners which in Leicestershire, the closing hours of | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
a campaign that has been vibrant and noisy. And if the opinion polls tell | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
us anything, the result could be very tight. What do you think will | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
happen? I think it is impossible to know, everybody wants to take back | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
control of the democracy and they will, it tomorrow and I would say to | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
people making up their mind, the safest thing to do is to Vote Leave | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
because of the do not, we are locked into this thing and it will go on | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
with no reform. Senior politicians said that the more hands they shape, | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
the more votes they get what it is not quite as simple as that. But he | :04:00. | :04:08. | |
is giving this a good try! But there has been anger and anxiety on both | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
sides. No, I can't! Nobody wants to listen to you. That is why you do | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
not want to listen... This is verbal diarrhoea! Because I am 17? What the | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
UK decides could affect our other union. The SNP wants to remain. But | :04:29. | :04:38. | |
this is the moment for the man whose years of campaigning to leave | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
punished to this decision, one day only. Vote with your heart and your | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
soul. Filled with pride in this country and its people and, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
together, we can make tomorrow our Independence Day. Whether by battle | :04:54. | :05:00. | |
bus, aeroplane or helicopter or simply in wellies, whatever it takes | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
today. Then a show of strength for the Labour Party, leader is | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
reluctant remain but will the voters missing? The vote is tomorrow. Do | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
what is best for the people, but for jobs and rights of work, but for the | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
NHS, vote to remain in the European Union. But on the south coast at | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
lunchtime, the most that fight has been amongst Tory friends and | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
rivals. More people have been warm and responsive and recognise that | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
voting to leave is the most optimistic thing to do. Three | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
o'clock and school buses are lined up and the Prime Minister is on home | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
turf for a visit in Oxfordshire. Just in case you did not notice, he | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
wants the choice to be about the next generation. Might he be | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
wondering if only they had a vote? A couple of weeks ago you were not | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
worried about the result but you must be? Obviously, for the sake of | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
the country it is important to vote to stay in because people have a | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
stronger economy and be safer, that is how we can be stronger as a | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
country so in this last day we need to make all of those arguments and | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
encourage people to get out and vote to remain. What is your hunch? | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
Either way, your choice will not be the end of this extraordinary story. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
The referendum has already changed politics. This is only the end of | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
part one. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Oxfordshire. | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
Well, as the campaign leaders were criss-crossing the | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
country, so was our Deputy Political Editor, John Pienaar, | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
to find out what voters made of today's final push. | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
Something big was going on outside. Something blonde. Fun to watch, | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
these campaign visits, but now, the minds of most people are made up and | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
there is no budging. Leave. Why? This country, I am proud of it, | :07:05. | :07:13. | |
railways, you name it, people saying we cannot manage or do this or that? | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
Cameron has put me off. By the lies! The Boris Johnson circus moves on, | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
past others just as concerned but they be more cautious than cross. I | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
am putting to stay in. You cite certain. Why are you so sure? I am | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
not definitely sure, to be honest, but I am more concerned about my job | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
and things like that. My son is doing economics in sixth form and he | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
has been giving me an ear blasting. He has been telling me to stay in. | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
But worries about migrants keeping wages dined keep coming up. They are | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
happy to work at ?5 per hour, less than me. What do you do? What can | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
you do? A couple of things, we are in the trucking industry. In | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Banbury, the news of the time is a campaigning of David Cameron. My | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
name is Charlie. I will vote in. I like the free movement of people. I | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
liked the fact that my brother lives in Spain. He has his own company and | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
is happy and I do not know how this will affect him and if I went to | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Italy tomorrow, I can do that. Sounds nice! Sorry to gate-crash the | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
party. Happy birthday. I will do an opinion poll, who is in? Why? I | :08:44. | :08:51. | |
think the economy is stronger in the European Union, I think people are | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
voting out because they have not decided, they don't have enough | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
information but I think, why take that risk? If you are unsure, vote | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
to stay in. I don't know much about politics anyway. I would rather not | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
take the risk. Why is this a risk? I don't know. It is like... Either | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
saying, here is ?1 million while you can have what is in the box. I would | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
take the money! Wide out? Various reasons. The one that is most | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
important to me is that my vote is for the government and I give them | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
the mandate to govern and they don't give Europe a mandate to govern us, | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
simple as that. So the minds have been made up, even if tempers have | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
been tested on the way. Two big issues have | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
dominated the campaign - immigration and the economy - | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
with the Remain side arguing leaving the EU could damage economic growth | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
and the Leave side saying coming out of the EU is the only way | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
to control immigration. In a moment we'll be speaking | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
to our Business Editor, But first, our Home Editor, | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
Mark Easton, is with Immigration has become a crucial | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
aspect of this referendum. Absolutely, what is interesting is | :10:09. | :10:18. | |
that for millions of people, their most direct experience of the EU has | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
been the opening of a Polish delicatessen in the High Street, it | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
has been an extraordinary phenomenon. We have seen something | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
like 1.7 million EU citizens settling here. Often in places that | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
are very unused to having foreign rivals and that is why immigration | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
is one of the real key bases, people feel uneasy about change. Because of | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
the rules on free movement, politicians explained they can do | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
little or nothing to stop that. If we leave the EU, Britain could also | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
leave the single market, meaning we no longer will be bound by those | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
rules and we can introduce what Leave campaign calls an Australian | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
style points system for immigrants, rather like for non-EU migrants. If | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
people think this will be a vote to stop foreigners coming in, it is not | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
that simple. After all, Ross Johnston, Michael Gove, they have | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
both describe themselves as probe migration. A stress the benefits | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
that migrants can bring. And on the Remain side, they have talked about | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
how they might control immigration. The argument on this issue is less | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
about numbers, more about control. And whether shaping the kind of | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
immigration that Britain wants can be achieved after in or out. Thank | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
you. Simon, and it comes to the economy, both sides have taken | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
biometric and opposed positions? -- diametrically. It is a grind on | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
which the Remain campaign is wanted to conduct this campaign because | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
they have the weight of economic opinion on their side. The governor | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
of the Bank of England has warned of a shock to the economy at least in | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
the short-term and a possible fall in the value of the pound. There are | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
big issues around trade, how will the relationship work-out with the | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
of the EU? Will it be DNA or Swiss or Norwegian or Canada? It is that | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
on certain that has been the O2 weapon the Remain campaign. But | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
leaves say this is nonsense, it will be in our mutual interest to | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
continue to trade and we would be free to cut deals with the rest of | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
the world more quickly than at a snail 's pace the EU proceeds. There | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
is a big business lobby letter in The Times newspaper, 1200 names from | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
AstraZeneca to Vodafone saying we would be better off in. But there | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
were? In the Scottish referendum it was thought they did sway the ballot | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
but I would say that there is a big disconnect between what is going on | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
in the city tonight and what is happening in the polls, the pound | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
had stronger state of the year, the stock market was up and yet the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
polls have this as neck and smack. One of them is wrong and we will | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
find out on Friday who that is. Thank you. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Later in the programme, Jeremy Vine will be bringing us | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
a guide to voting and how and when we can expect a result. | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
And there are, of course, lots more details about the EU | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
referendum on the BBC website - that's bbc.co.uk/news. | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
With just a few hours of campaigning left, | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
both sides of the EU referendum debate are making their | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
Traffic chaos for festival goers as they try to make their way | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
to the Glastonbury Festival - and that's before | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
What next for England here at Euro 2016, after Roy Hodgson's selection | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
gamble that left his side in the same half of the draw | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Events are taking place across the world to mark | :13:54. | :14:09. | |
what would have been the 42nd birthday of the Labour MP Jo Cox, | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
A minute's silence has been held in Trafalgar Square in London, | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
with vigils in New York, Brussels, Mumbai and in her constituency | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
Our Chief Correspondent Gavin Hewitt reports. | :14:21. | :14:32. | |
Jo Cox's husband, Brendan, and their two children, Cuillin and Lejla, | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
travelled down the river Thames today to join a celebration of her | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
life. Today would have been a 42nd birthday. It's a week since she was | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
killed while holding her MP's surgery in Yorkshire. Several | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
thousand people had gathered in Trafalgar Square, many holding | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
pictures of Jo Cox. Some had come from Yorkshire. Some signed pledges | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
supporting her causes. Her husband came on stage and spoke of how the | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
family had coped in the past few days. We try to remember not how | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
cruelly she has been taken from us but how unbelievably lucky we were | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
to have her in our lives for so long. He said his wife's killing had | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
been an act of terror. What a beautiful irony is that an act | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
designed to advance hatred is instead generated such an outpouring | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
of love. Among those who spoke was the Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai. | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
In Jo's life is the proof that a message of peace is more powerful | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
than any weapon of war. Once again, the extremists have failed. Jo Cox's | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
death has been a key moment in the referendum campaign, sparking | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
reflection on the tone of intense political debate, on how claims and | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
counterclaims are framed, but today was a day for tributes to a | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
campaigning MP, from friends, family and former colleagues. Four times | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
major golf winner Rory McIlroy has pulled out of the Olympics because | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
of concerns about the Zika virus. He was due to represent Ireland and he | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
said, although the risk of infection is considered low, it was not | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
prepared to take that risk. Football, and England will play | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
Iceland in their next match in the final 16 of the Euros | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
after Iceland beat Austria Is this good news for England? I | :16:35. | :16:46. | |
think it certainly is, but for a couple of minutes the England | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
players in their hotel behind me thought they would be facing | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal, but then came a dramatic late winner for | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
Iceland against Austria. So next Monday night in Nice it will be | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
England against Iceland. Iceland have a population the size of | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
Leicester, but we know what Leicester did this season. Beyond | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
that, there are repercussions for England for finishing second in | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
their group to Wales. There are some big powers lying ahead, should they | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
get that far. The French, Spain, Italy and Germany. As for Wales and | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
Northern Ireland, they don't know yet who they will face. They will do | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
in the next couple of hours. There is a slim chance they could face | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
each other, but we will fight out by the ten o'clock news later. | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Spare a thought for festival-goers heading to Glastonbury today | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
as they found themselves stuck in queues of up to 12 hours | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
with traffic chaos hitting all major routes to the site. | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
Organisers said rain and muddy ground conditions had caused delays | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
and had urged people "not to set off". | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
More than 100,000 people are due to descend | :17:52. | :17:52. | |
Our Entertainment Correspondent Lizo Mzimba is there. | :17:53. | :18:02. | |
These were some of the lucky ones. While they were pouring onto an | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
already sodden and multisite first thing this morning, thousands of | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
other festivalgoers were still stuck in the worst Glastonbury traffic | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
congestion of recent years. Many drivers reported they'd been stuck | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
overnight in barely moving queues, some of them for more than 12 hours. | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
A few passed the time by relating them mostly stationary experiences | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
on social media. If there are two things we Brits can do particularly | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
well it is queueing and rain. We are doing both pretty well right now. | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
Ground conditions after heavy downpours led to extremely slow | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
traffic access. Everything and anything available was drafted in to | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
help get vehicles through. But it all still resulted in massive | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
congestion on the narrow roads outside the site, a problem for | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
those travelling to Glastonbury and those living in the area. The | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
festival has grown to three times its size. It started on Wednesday | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
this year. We can't do business, we lose trade. Everyone wants to avoid | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
a repeat of today's problems for the rest of the week and future years, | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
because this is a festival that wants and needs the support and | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
goodwill of the local community. And so that the focus can once more be | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
on the Glastonbury Festival itself, where the only storm clouds hovering | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
over the event's future would be purely meteorological ones. | :19:33. | :19:34. | |
Let's go back to our top story now, and it's the final day | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
of campaigning ahead of tomorrow's vote in the EU referendum. | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
Chris Buckler is in Narrow Water on the Irish border, | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
Sian Lloyd is in Cardiff, but let's start with Sarah Smith, | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
Sarah, what's your assessment of the mood there? | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
The most remarkable thing about the campaign in Scotland is all the | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
major party leaders agree, they all want to remain, and they haven't | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
been any high-profile additions campaigning to leave. But if leaving | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
is what the voters decide across the UK, that could have profound | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
implications for Scotland. The MPEG Russian -- SNP leader Nicola | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
Sturgeon has said if there is a vote to leave the UK but Scotland votes | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
to remain, then that could trigger a second referendum on Scottish | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
independence. She is campaigning to remain, not least because she | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
doesn't want to be forced to have a second referendum that quickly and | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
in those circumstances and, anyway, the voters are getting a little | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
weary. This is our fourth major electoral event in little over 18 | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
months. In Wales, leading politicians on both sides of the | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
divide are making a final push for the Welsh vote tonight in a | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
televised debate on BBC Wales. Over the last week of campaigning, there | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
has been a palpable sense of urgency, as politicians from both | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
sides had careered up and down the country trying to get their key | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
messages across. Remain have been talking about the lucrative | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
relationship between Wales and the EU, ?4 billion of structural funds | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
over the past 16 years to some of the poorest parts of the country, | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
and there has been talk about potential damage to the economy | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
should there be a withdrawal. But their opponents say those EU funded | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
projects will still be financed, should there be a vote to leave. The | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
South Wales valleys is an area that has benefited from EU money, but | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
with just hours to go before the polls open, both sides acknowledge | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
that there was a large section of the electorate that is still | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
undecided. They may be rock-solid Labour strongholds, but senior | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
Labour members of Remain are saying they are having to fight for the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
vote. If you talk to people on the street of many of those towns, you | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
will hear concerns about immigration. Should those people | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
vote to leave in a tightly run contest here in Wales, it could be | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
crucial to the result. Narrow Water in County Down is a well named | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
place, because this small stretch of water marks the point where Northern | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Ireland meet the Republic of Ireland. On this shared island, it | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
is no surprise much of the referendum debate has focused on | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
what would happen to the border if there was a vote to leave. At the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
moment, it totally open and a large amount of trade text across -- takes | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
place across it. The Remain campaigners have argued customs | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
checkpoint or security would need to be introduced if the Irish border | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
was to become the place where the UK met the EU, but campaigners to leave | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
point out that a common travel area has existed for decades allowing | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
free movement and they say there is no need for that to change. Other | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
big issues here have been sovereignty, identity, no stranger | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
to debate in Northern Ireland, but people are normally discussing | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
whether they feel British or Irish or northern Irish. This referendum | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
has been different, about whether people feel European and, indeed how | :23:08. | :23:09. | |
European they want to be. The polls open in just | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
under 12 hours' time, with more than 46 million people | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
eligible to vote. Let's go over to Jeremy Vine | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
in our referendum studio, who can tell us how and when we'll | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
know the result. Here is the ballot paper. We have | :23:20. | :23:32. | |
enlarged it. This is what you will see tomorrow. The question, do you | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
want to remain or leave the European Union? You simply put your cross in | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
a box. The polls open at 7am and they close at 10pm. The counting | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
areas are bad councils around the UK, except in Northern Ireland, | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
where it is by Parliamentary constituency. The two votes go into | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
two big boxes, each vote counting the same. It's going to the Virtual | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
Downing Street and talk about the timings on the night. We are using | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
two colours, blue for Leave and yellow for Remain. We will see the | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
votes come up the street towards the door of number ten. By midnight, you | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
will see those lines beginning to appear. We have made them 50-50, for | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
obvious reasons. Newcastle and Sunderland are expected to come in | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
first. By 1am, Eurosceptical Basildon should report, as well as | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
the Isles of Scilly, which is the smallest counting area. Then a rush | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
of results by 2am, from Scotland, but to be leaning towards remaining, | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
places like Clackmannanshire and East Lothian, and even more results | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
by 3am. Durham, a lot of voters, the whole council area expected to be | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
50-50. A good way of looking at how the wind is blowing. Then the big | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
cities is not report, Birmingham, Middlesbrough in by 4am and, by 5am, | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
surely we will be getting a sense of it when Manchester and Liverpool | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
report. If not, we have to wait for the last councils to tell us their | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
reports, Cornwall and Shropshire, expected by 6am. Will it be this | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
close? At some point, one of these two lines will cross the dotted line | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
and be victorious. An extraordinary night in prospect in what is | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
normally our election studio but, tomorrow night, join us for our | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
referendum special. Let's have a final word now with our | :25:27. | :25:27. | |
Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg, Whatever the result on Friday, | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
this campaign has changed It has and there are implications | :25:31. | :25:43. | |
for everything, really. There is rather a list it is worth reflecting | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
on. It affects how long David Cameron will stay on as Prime | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
Minister. It affects who replaces him one day, in terms of who is up | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
and down in those fierce Tory rivalries. It has implications for | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
how the Labour Party is really getting in touch with its core | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
voters. We have seen in this campaign that they haven't always | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
been able to get their traditional heartland voters to listen. There | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
are all sorts of things that the last six really quite fraught weeks | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
have changed, maybe for good. The biggest change will be how it | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
affects our place in the world, our relationship with the rest of the EU | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
if we stay in and our relationship with the rest of the EU and | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
everywhere else if we choose to leave. That would be uncharted | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
territory. It's a fundamental choice the like of which most of us will | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
probably never played again in our lifetimes. For people who have been | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
interested in this for many years, the political nerds, this is an | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
exciting moment but, -- but, let's face it, that isn't most of us. For | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
many of the voters we have met in the last few weeks, this has been | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
difficult and anxious. We have seen people really clashing and worrying | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
about doing the wrong thing. I think that's partly because this is a | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
referendum. Maybe that is inevitable. In a referendum -- | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
general election, there are a whole range of parties. In a referendum, | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
by its nature, it is black and white, no room for maybe. | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
It's been quite quiet so far today but things will turn quite noisy for | :27:13. | :27:26. | |
some of us overnight. Thunderstorms now breaking out across the Channel | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Islands and heading north east. Increasing chance through the | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
evening and overnight that we will see torrential thunderstorms | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
affecting some felt -- some south-eastern parts. An amber | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
warning and be prepared for significant disruption. A lots of | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
lightning and flooding is possible, particularly for parts of East | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
Sussex and Kent later. Some other south-eastern part seeing very | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
thundery showers. Fresher further north and west, with some sunshine | :27:54. | :27:58. | |
to start the day. There will be showers across Northern Ireland as | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
we get through the day, and some western parts of Scotland, with | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
intense down powers -- downpours in East Anglia and the south-east | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
fading away. Some sunshine in the afternoon for Scotland but sharp | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
showers out west. Feeling quite pleasant, mid-to high teens. Sharp | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
showers for Northern Ireland, but not before some sunshine. A lot of | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
blue sky across the Scottish borders and nor -- more northern and western | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
parts. Glastonbury should get away with it. Not so further east, with | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
torrential downpours coming up from France and affecting south-eastern | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
areas. They could be quite nasty, rumbling into the night across parts | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
of south-eastern and East. Friday, a different of day in the east with | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
some sunshine, we will have lost the humidity and some sharp showers | :28:50. | :28:50. | |
north and west. On BBC One, we now join the BBC's | :28:51. | :28:53. | |
news teams where you are. | :28:54. | :28:55. |