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Today
- Cancer patient attacks postcode lottery
- Ex-Tory party chair Lady Warsi switches to Remain
- Parliament recalled to pay respects to Jo Cox MP
- Cameron: no way back from Brexit vote
- Sturgeon: Vote Remain to save NHS
06.00 BBC Today headlines
Lady Warsi attacks “hate and xenophobia” of Out campaign … Vote Leave says PM should drop migration target if UK stays … Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and England’s Premier League, back Remain … Parliament recalled … Suicide bomber kills 14 in Kabul … Actor Anton Yelchin crushed to death by own car … Five Star’s Virginia Raggi becomes Rome’s first female mayor … Dustin Johnson wins US Open.
07.00 BBC Good Morning Scotland headlines
FM to argue Brexit could place NHS and workers' rights in jeopardy ... Leave denies claims ... Lady Warsi ... Parliament recalled ... Both sides prepare for tomorrow's rail strike ... GP vacancies on rise ... 40% of adults obese by 2035.
Front pages
Exclusive: In The Herald, Health Correspondent Helen Puttick meets a cancer patient who spent £13,000 on a drug, only to find another woman living elsewhere in Scotland had been given it free.
The National has an exclusive report on the £5m promised by Westminster for Helensburgh waterfront regeneration which has yet to appear.
In the Evening Times, Stacey Mullen meets the men and women in Glasgow’s Violence Reduction Unit.
The Times has the story that Baroness Warsi is quitting Leave for Remain.
The Mail says Remain and Leave are neck and neck, with Scots votes set to be crucial.
The Record issues “a heartfelt plea from a country that’s been here before … Let’s stay together.”
The FT has a poll of polls showing both sides tied at 44%.
The Guardian and Telegraph highlight David Cameron’s “Britain doesn’t quit” line from last night’s Question Time special. See Afore Ye Go. The Telegraph’s headline, however, comes from Boris Johnson: “Vote Leave, change history”.
Camley’s Cartoon
Camley assesses the Euro 2016 factor in indyref2.
Five in five seconds: tag team EU challenge
1. The line up for the final, and biggest, televised debate of the EU referendum campaign has been announced. In the Remain corner at the SSE Arena in Wembley tomorrow are: Scots Tory leader Ruth Davidson, London mayor Sadiq Khan, and TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady.
2. In the Leave corner, returning for their second bout together, are Boris Johnson, Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom and Labour MP Gisela Stuart.
3. There will also be two back up teams of five providing commentary. For Leave: Employment Minister Priti Patel, Ukip MEP Diane James, Harsimrat Kaur from Women for Britain, Wetherspoon founder and chairman Tim Martin, and the journalist and author Tony Parsons. For Remain: SNP MSP Humza Yousaf, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston, Green MP Caroline Lucas, and former Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King.
4. The Davidson/Johnson clash is notable as both were mentioned in weekend coverage as figuring in any post-referendum shakeout of the Conservative Party. Besides Mr Johnson being tipped for higher office should Leave win, Ms Davidson has been mentioned in connection with her friend and political ally, the Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb, who is talked of as a possible contender should there be a vacancy at the top come June 24.
5. Watch 8pm, BBC1, tomorrow. If you are wondering about the fate of River City, which usually has that slot, it is on at 9pm on Wednesday instead. (Phew.)
Afore Ye Go
Watch out @HillaryClinton 👿
— Brian Fraser (@bfraser747) June 19, 2016
Support @realDonaldTrump 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 #MakeAmericaGreatAgain 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/mn8xXtwptA
Ivanka Trump lends dad her support
“I don't think Britain at the end is a quitter. I think we stay and fight. That is what we should do. That is what made our country great and that's how it will be great in the future.”
David Cameron calls Churchill to his defence after an audience member on a special edition of BBC’s Question Time last night likened him to a “21st century Neville Chamberlain”.
Four glasses of water.. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/70a3JSE7Yy
— Ben (@Jamin2g) June 19, 2016
It's thirsty work this TV debating lark.
“There are perfectly legitimate concerns about migration, concerns that are felt in every Western democracy in the world. But I think there is a difference between addressing those concerns in a reasonable way and whipping up concerns, whipping up division, making baseless assertions that millions of people are going to come into the country in the next couple of years from Turkey, saying that dead bodies are going to wash up on the beaches of Kent, or indeed putting up that disgusting and vile poster that Nigel Farage did, which had echoes of literature used in the 1930s.”
George Osborne on Ukip’s “Breaking Point” poster, above. ITV’s Peston on Sunday
"When I saw that poster I shuddered.”
Michael Gove, BBC1 Andrew Marr Show. Jack Taylor/Getty Images
“When you challenge the establishment in this country, they come after you, they call you all sorts of things.”
Nigel Farage says he has been the “victim” of attempts to stoke up hatred during the campaign. ITV’s Peston on Sunday. Jack Taylor/Getty Images
Curtice hair status update: looming referendum pic.twitter.com/jfsmJuHX3k
— Chris Deerin (@chrisdeerin) June 19, 2016
"If you are basing your decision on what it means for independence, let me be very clear - the only sensible and logical vote is one for Scotland to remain in Europe. If Scotland votes to leave, our immediate future will be one inside the UK but outside the EU, at the mercy of a Tory Government led by the likes of Boris Johnson, which is even more right wing than that of David Cameron and George Osborne.”
FM Nicola Sturgeon says the only "logical" way to indyref2 is to vote Remain. The Sunday Herald. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
“It is a celebration and a commemoration and an expression of profound sadness and to my mind it is an occasion where people should do what they feel comfortable doing.”
Commons leader Chris Grayling on the suggestion by Labour MP Jason McCartney that MPs from different parties should sit together when parliament is recalled today in memory of Jo Cox MP. Sky News’ Murnaghan
65 million
The number of people forcibly displaced by conflict - the highest ever total says the UNHCR, which released the figure to mark World Refugee Day today. Milos Bicanski/Getty Images
“I watch Game of Thrones, actually. I’m ashamed to say I’m completely up to date - I watched the latest episode on Sunday night.”
David Cameron reveals how he switches off from the pressures of the campaign. The Times. Above, the Queen on a set visit to GoT.
The secret to getting young girls interested in tech? Barbies, of course https://t.co/bN3Naz7ZWl pic.twitter.com/V0XG1SDJPE
— New York Post (@nypost) June 19, 2016
Of course!
“Donald Trump says, if elected, he is willing to ‘accept’ a visit by Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Un said, ‘No, thanks, that guy’s crazy.’
Conan O’Brien. Han Myung-Gu/Getty Images
"I really wanted to be a girl. Thank God the world of now wasn't then, because I'd be on hormones and I'd be a woman. After I was 15 I never wanted to be a woman again”.
Actor Rupert Everett says youngsters should be not be too quick to turn to surgery when it comes to gender. The Observer
“Kim Kardashian (above left) appears nude on the current cover of GQ, with the headline ‘Kim as you've never seen her.’ Which I can only assume means in a library?”
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
A toy mouse and a packet of treats
The “official” gifts given by Larry the cat from Number Ten to Palmerston the moggie on his arrival at the Foreign Office, according to a Freedom of Information request. BuzzFeed News
Happy Father's Day, @BillClinton! pic.twitter.com/3C2RFFuIAr
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 19, 2016
From Hill to Bill
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