Michael Gove has subtly changed what he has been saying about his father’s business since he appeared on Sky News earlier this month.

In his Sky News interview Gove implied the business went bust while his father owned it. He said:

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy, the European Union …

If you heard earlier, Faisal, I know what it’s like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

But Gove’s father told the Guardian he sold the business before it had to close.

Tonight Gove was careful not to say the business closed while his father still owned it. He said:

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made. One of the things I know about the European Union is that the European Union can destroy jobs. My dad ran a fish business in Aberdeen. The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered ...

My dad has been clear, he was clear to the BBC on Sunday night, he was clear to me when I was a boy, that the business that he invested so much care and time in had to close as a result of the common fisheries policy.

Q: Do you regret using the £350m a week figure for the amount the EU costs the UK?

Gove says some people have criticised. He says that is the amount of money the EU controls. Some of it comes back. But the rebate has been cut in the past, and it will be cut in the future again if we stay in.

• Gove says UK rebate will be cut if we remain in the EU.

Q: You sound plausible, but I can’t help thinking you are a wolf in sheep’s clothing. (She is using a phrase Jeremy Corbyn used yesterday.)

Gove says Britain will be stronger, freer and fairer outside the EU.

And that’s it.

I will post a verdict and a summary soon.

Gove says he does not favour deporting anyone who is hard working.

But he says a Bank of England report showed wages were being held down by immigration. It is not right to set community against community, he says.

He says he objects to the way a member of the audience is talking down people in this country.

A member of the audience complains about how immigrants like her are treated in this country. “We are not the enemy, Mr Gove,” she says.

Gove says he understands the woman’s point of view. He is in favour of migration, he says. He just wants to control the numbers.

The woman says she does not believe him.

Gove says under EU law there are criminals here we cannot deport. If we leave the EU, we can have an Australian-style points system.

Q: Are you scaremongering when you say Turkey will join the EU?

Absolutely not, says Gove. He says the Financial Times has a story today saying moves to get Turkey into the EU are being accelerated.

Q: Cameron says we have a veto on Turkey joining the EU?

Gove says that is correct. But it is official government policy for Turkey to join. The government has no intention of using that veto.

He says he thinks Turkey joining the EU will “’inevitably” happen in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.

• Gove says Turkey will “inevitably” join the EU in our lifetime unless we vote to leave.

Q: If we get a leave vote, are you confident a prime minister who campaigned for remain will deliver what the country wants?

Gove says the referendum is about giving instructions to the prime minister. David Cameron has promised he will abide by the decision of the people.

Q: And what will happen to George Osborne. Some 65 Tory MPs say they will not vote for his budget. Will he have to go?

Gove says the remain campaign have been “ramping up the fear, turning it up to 11”. Do you want the UK to govern itself? Or do you want it run by the EU and its five presidents, none of whom you can name?

Q: I run a small business and more than 50% of my trade is with the EU. How can you guarantee that I won’t lose out?

Gove says there will be no reason to think they will impose tariffs. It will be in their interests not to impose tariffs.

Q: But I sell to them. I have a translation business. It is much more difficult to work with non-EU countries. And if we become a non-EU country, it will be harder for me.

Gove says that will only be the case if EU countries take leave of their senses. It is in the interests of both sides to keep tariffs down.

Q: But you tell us the EU does take leave of its senses. You quoted Donald Tusk.

Gove says they are trying to scare us into staying, because we pay many of the bills.

Q: As a physicist I am terrified what will happen to British science if we succeed. What will we do when our funding dries up?

Gove says some physicists think we will be better off outside the EU. And all the EU money going to universities is our money in the first place.

He says he does not believe in the scare stories. Donald Tusk says Brexit will lead to the end of Western civilisation.

Q: But we get more money out of the EU for science than we put in.

Gove says that is not true. Overall we hand over £20bn to the EU.

Q: But for science we get more than we put in. The IOP [Institute of Physics] has said that, the Royal Society has said that.

Gove says we hand over £20bn, and get £10bn back.

Q: The risks are economic. What trading relationship will we have? You want us to lose autonomy, and lose influence over decision making. You are off your rocker if you think we are better off.

Gove says the Germans sell more cars to us than we sell to them. Germany won’t punish its car workers.

Q: Everything in life has risks. What are the risks of leaving?

Gove says the questioner is right. But he thinks we will be better off out. Yes, there will be bumps in the road ...

Q: What will they be?

Gove says there will be risks if we leave or stay.

Q: Are you saying there are now downsides from leaving.

Gove says the UK will be in a stronger position if we leave. It won’t be milk and honey. But the British people will be liberated to deal with any risks they encounter.

Q: If you value the NHS so much, where was your support for junior doctors?

Gove says the NHS will be stronger if we leave. It will have more money, and be under less strain.

Q: Why are you dismissing the views of economic experts?

Gove says they were wrong about the euro and the ERM.

Q: But the IFS did not support the euro.

Gove says he wants the UK to take back control of its affairs.

Q: How can we trust you when you co-authored a book saying we should dismantle the NHS?

Gove says he supports the NHS. He says leaving would allow us to give it an extra £100m a week.

Q: But John Major said you want to privatise it.

Gove says he cherishes it.

Q: But 10 years ago you wanted to privatise it. You have changed your mind.

Gove says the book was written by a group of people. He did not write anything in it about the NHS. His commitment to the NHS is absolute.

He wants the money to be spent by us, on our priorities. He does not know of a higher priority to the British public.

Q: If we vote to leave the EU, will you support George Osborne’s punishment budget?

No, says Michael Gove.

He says all we have heard from remain have been dire warnings.

But the economy will do well, he says. Leaving would be a “win, win” for the economy. The EU has the lowest growth of any continent apart from Antarctica.

Q: George Osborne was talking about IFS figures. You respect the IFS.

Gove says the IFS did not say there would be a £30bn hole in the budget immediately after we left. Stuart Rose, who leads the in campaign, has said nothing would change if we left, he says.

• Gove says he would not support Osborne’s post-Brexit austerity budget. But he says he is saying that because he does not accept it would be necessary.

Gove says “it’s a shame” the remain camp are talking this country down – with some anger in his voice.

Tonight’s Question Time is going out live. Normally it records an hour or so before transmission.

And this is from the SNP MSP Gillian Martin on the Michael Gove story.

Michael Gove has been caught out – he should call it a day on his attempts to spin a tale about his family history.

If Mr Gove was as concerned by the plight of the Scottish fishing industry as he says, then he’d never have joined the political party that viewed it “expendable” in the first place. It’s not the EU that’s to blame for the difficulties of the fishing industry, but the indifference of the UK government who sold the industry out.

Here is the Lib Dem MPS Tavish Scott on the Guardian’s revelations about Michael Gove’s father denying claims made by his son that the family’s fish processing firm in Aberdeen was destroyed by the European Union’s fisheries policies. Scott said:

Michael Gove’s father has just slapped him round the face with a wet fish. He spent hours this week telling anyone who would listen that the EU was to blame for the demise of his family business but now it seems there is something more than a little bit fishy about his claims.

These figures, from YouGov’s Joe Twyman, are quite telling.

My colleague Severin Carrell has sent me more about Michael Gove’s father denying claims made by his son that the family’s fish processing firm in Aberdeen was destroyed by the European Union’s fisheries policies. Here is some extra material left out from Severin’s story for space reasons because it was written for publication in the paper.

Other senior figures in the Scottish fishing industry said Aberdeen’s fishing businesses suffered too from competition from Peterhead, which was offering far better facilities for the fishing fleet, in the 1980s – the time when Gove gave up his company EE Gove and Sons.

That competition came at the same time as Aberdeen’s port facilities were under heavy pressure from vessels needed in the rapidly expanding North Sea oil and gas industry; industrial unrest from dock workers, and the impact of the cod wars.

John Buchan, one of the organisers of the Fishing for Leave flotilla on the Thames and a vocal supporter of Gove’s Brexit campaign, told the Guardian many larger trawler firms in Aberdeen went bankrupt because the new 200 nautical miles territorial limits closed down the Icelandic and north Norwegian fishing grounds after the cod wars. But the smaller trawlers moved to Peterhead, which is now the UK’s largest fishing port. “It all linked up,” Buchan said.

Gove Snr confirmed these were factors when he spoke to the Guardian on Tuesday morning.

“You had all that going on,” he said. “To be quite honest, I just decided to sell up and go ahead and try and make a good living, I can get a job with someone, I could be more or less employed and know I was going to be employed.

“Yes, oil and everything else came along and things like that. I mean, as you understand, that is just what industry does. It goes on and on and on and you move from one to another. As regards my own business, I just decided that things weren’t going to work well with me, I just decided to pack it in, that’s all.”

According to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, 65 Tory MPs have now signed the letter saying they would not back George Osborne’s hypothetical post-Brexit budget.

Michael Gove’s father has contradicted claims made by his son that the family’s fish processing firm in Aberdeen was destroyed by the European Union’s fisheries policies, Severin Carrell reports.

Here’s his story.

And here’s how it starts.

Michael Gove’s father has contradicted claims made by his son that the family’s fish processing firm in Aberdeen was destroyed by the European Union’s fisheries policies.

Ernest Gove told the Guardian he had sold the business voluntarily because the fishing industry in Aberdeen was being hit by a range of different factors. Those included competition for space in the port from North Sea oil vessels, the Icelandic cod wars, dockworkers’ strikes and new 200-mile limits to control over-fishing.

Michael Gove, who is representing the Vote Leave campaign in a BBC Question Time tonight, has said in speeches and television interviews that his father’s firm “went to the wall” because of the EU’s fisheries policies, and that the common fisheries policy “destroyed” it.

John Swinney, Scotland’s deputy first minister, has said pledges that a Brexit vote would lead to more powers for the Scottish parliament are a “Tory con trick,” after Scottish leave campaigners said Holyrood would be liberated by leaving the UK.

Speaking after former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars and ex-Tory MSP Brian Monteith said a Brexit vote would unshackle Holyrood from the EU (see 1.24pm), Swinney said:

Those powers would go straight back from Brussels to Westminster, who would have absolutely no obligation to devolve anything.

The leave campaign is led by the very same people who have, at every opportunity, resisted the transfer of powers to Scotland – so their hollow offers of more powers are nothing more than a Tory con-trick.

The way to get more powers for the Scottish parliament is for Scotland to become an independent nation – not to cross our fingers for a Damascene conversation from Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.

The European commission has today put out a statement about relations with Turkey. It is mostly about the deal designed to stop migrants crossing from Turkey to Greece, but it includes a paragraph on accession (Turkey joining the EU) which says: “Preparatory work continues at an accelerated pace to make progress on five Chapters, without prejudice to Member States’ positions in accordance with the existing rules.”

The significance of this seems minimal, but Vote Leave has issued a press notice about it. Matthew Elliott, Vote Leave’s chief executive, said:

David Cameron wants to “pave the road from Ankara”. It’s disingenuous for him to claim it’s not going to happen when he is campaigning for it, when the commission in their own words are accelerating the bid and when UK taxpayers are paying money to make it happen. Voters want to take back control, not see a border free zone from the English Channel to Syria.

This, from the Political Patridge twitter account, has received almost 2,000 retweets.

And, equally predictably, the New Statesman has come out for Remain in this week’s edition. Here’s an extract from its editorial.

There have been moments in Britain’s history when the country could have withdrawn in relatively benign circumstances. This is not one of them. Should Scotland vote to remain while the rest of the UK votes to leave, a second independence referendum and the break-up of the Union could result. Brexit would threaten the hard-won peace in Northern Ireland by encouraging the return of border controls. The UK’s departure would embolden fascists and populists across the continent, most notably Marine Le Pen in France, and enhance Russia’s revanchist ambitions. It is far from inconceivable that Brexit could set in train the break-up of the EU.

To no one’s surprise, the Spectator has come out in favour of Brexit in this week’s edition. Here’s an extract from its editorial.

The value of sovereignty cannot be measured by any economist’s formula. Adam Smith, the father of economics, first observed that the prosperity of a country is decided by whether it keeps its ‘laws and institutions’ healthy. This basic insight explains why nations thrive or fail, and has been the great secret of British success: intellectual, artistic, scientific and industrial. The principles of the Magna Carta and achievements of the Glorious Revolution led to our emergence as a world power. To pass up the chance to stop our laws being overridden by Luxembourg and our democracy eroded by Brussels would be a derogation of duty to this generation and the next.

Idris Elba is backing Remain.

The Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), the leftwing group backing Brexit, has put out a statement saying if necessary Labour MPs should vote against the post-Brexit budget measures George Osborne is proposing. In a statement Dave Nellist, the former Labour MP who chairs TUSC, said there would be no point leaving the EU only to carry on with austerity.

Ultimately, Brexit on a capitalist basis will produce broadly the same results as Remain on a capitalist basis – continued austerity, attacks on wages and living standards, cuts and privatisation of public services.

That’s why TUSC stands for an economy based on democratic public ownership of the major companies and banks (see http://www.tusc.org.uk/policy), a vision of a democratic socialist society rooted in Labour’s old ‘Clause Four’.

We stand in solidarity with those Labour politicians who fight for a similar position, in or out of the EU.

But TUSC supports a leave vote, firstly because the EU creates an extra layer of legal obstacles to the labour and trade union movement – against workers’ rights and socialist measures generally – and secondly because the referendum gives us a chance to strike a blow at the Tories and the whole capitalist establishment.

Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson has said that Brexit would be “even worse than Tory government” and pleaded with voters not to vote Leave because they wanted to “give David Cameron a bloody nose”.

In a speech to Labour activists in Kings Cross, London, Watson said: “Please don’t vote Leave to spite David Cameron and end up blighting the country instead.”

He acknowledged that Labour’s position on the referendum remains unclear to many supporters, even though the campaign has brought together figures from all over the party, creating some unlikely pairings - he named Jeremy Corbyn and Tony Blair, and Len McCluskey and Peter Mandelson.

He argued that the resentment of immigration that has surfaced among many traditional Labour voters is misplaced, laying the blame instead at the door of the Tory deregulation of labour markets in the 1980s.

Previous generations of immigrants had not affected wages, but the reforms to labour laws had led to a “race to the bottom”. “This has been going on long before Polish plumbers and Spanish care workers came along,” he said.

Irish rugby international Rory Best has come out for the Remain side in the EU referendum.The Ulster player has sent a tweet from Ireland’s tour of South Africa supporting an In vote.

After the Irish victory over the Springboks, Best tweeted from Cape Town: “Thursday 23rd June is an important date for farmers&the agrifood sector. Support them by voting to stay in EU.”

Best’s backing of the In campaigns come on the back of Northern Ireland’s biggest employer, the chicken producer, has also called for an In vote.

Moy Park’s chief executive Janet McCollum said: “We are a European business and Europe is our market. Any move way from the free market could increase tariffs, add administrative burdens and limit export opportunities.”

Here is a Guardian video of PMQs highlights.

Britain Stronger in Europe have now sent out a link to the Brexit budget document published by George Osborne and Alistair Darling earlier.

The flotilla arrived at Tower Bridge as Greenpeace attacked one of the largest trawlers in the protest, the Christina S from Peterhead, over its role in a £63m fisheries fraud scandal four years ago, the worst yet involving the UK fisheries industry.

The joint skippers of the vessel, Ernest Simpson and his son Allan Simpson, were each fined £65,000 and had a total of £725,000 confiscated by Scottish courts in September 2012 after they admitted illegally landing mackerel and herring in Peterhead and Shetland.

Earnest Simpson pled guilty to landing more than £2m worth of undeclared fish while his son Allan admitted to more than £2.7m in undeclared fish, in a scandal involving dozens of Scottish skippers and several major processing factories.

John Sauven, the executive director of Greenpeace UK, said that it was “an unfortunate choice” to have the Christina S as one of the “showstopper” boats on the protest.

It was co-owned by one of the fisheries giants referred to by Jeremy Corbyn at prime ministers questions, Andrew Marr International, which controls 12% of the English fishing quota, with the Marr family worth £122m.

Here’s some video footage from the battle of the Thames.

Pro-Brexit campaigners in Scotland, led by the former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars and ex-Tory MSP Brian Monteith, have claimed the country would have far more “democratic sovereignty” and money outside the EU.

They released a pamphlet through the Leave.eu campaign headed by Nigel Farage just as an Ipsos Mori poll for STV found the gap between the in and out vote in Scotland had narrowed sharply, by 13 points over the last six weeks.

The STV poll still gave the remain vote in Scotland a clear lead of 58% against 33% for leave, with 8% undecided. It confirmed the trend in favour of Brexit at UK level: in April, Ipsos put remain at 66% and leave at 29%. That implies the prospect of a massive pro-EU vote from Scotland helping remain win at UK level is receding.

The Monteith and Sillars paper, “Democratic, Prosperous and Free”, openly targets Scottish nationalists – about a third of whom back a leave vote - and Scottish devolutionists by claiming Brexit would allow Holyrood far greater autonomy within the UK because it already significant powers over domestic policy.

“We can make decision-making more democratic and accountable by taking control back from Brussels and giving it to the Scottish electorate. For instance, it will mean the powers to manage farming and fisheries coming to the Scottish parliament – why would Scottish politicians wish to be against that?” Monteith said.

Here are some more pictures from the flotilla.

On the waves outside parliament, fishermen claim they have boarded Geldof’s boat “to tell him the truth”. A police boat is alongside but the pro-Brexit fishing vessel Wayward Lad has pulled up to Geldof’s pleasure cruiser.

Parliamentarians are looking on from the terrace, three helicopters, including police hovering above.

Nigel Farage has attacked Bob Geldof’s aquatic intervention as “ignorant” and “insulting”.

“He doesn’t know anything about the common fisheries policy,” he told the Guardian. “You can’t reform it from within. You can’t change it. There is nothing you can do apart from leave.”

Asked about the barrage of noise, he said: “It’s just insulting to these people. Some of these lads have come from the north of Scotland, communities that have never been listened to where we have seen tens of thousands of jobs lost and a way of life destroyed and they come here to make their protest and be heard and they get a multi-millionaire laughing at them. Horrible disgusting.”

Geldof wasn’t in fact laughing at the fishermen. He addressed Farage’s boat before it reached the fishing flotilla.

Geldof said: “Here are the facts about fishing. Britain makes more money than any other country in Europe from fishing. Two. Britain has the second largest quota for fishing in Europe after Denmark. Three. Britain has the third largest landings. Fourth, you are no fisherman’s friend.”

Christopher Chope, a Conservative, says he is looking forward to the UK voting for Brexit, so that he can vote against Osborne’s vindictive budget.

Cameron says he hopes people will vote to remain in the EU.

And that’s it.

(Good to see John Bercow’s campaign to extend PMQs by 10 minutes so it last for 40 minutes is going well.)

Asked about the North Middlesex A&E unit, Cameron says the health secretary is monitoring this closely. But if we stay in the EU, there will be more money for the NHS.

Nigel Adams, a Conserative, says there has been “hysterical scaremongering” during the EU referendum. Will Cameron assure people he will follow the results on the referendum.

Yes, says Cameron. He says out means out of the single market too. He says he would say to anyone still in doubt, to anyone uncertain, don’t risk it.

Tim Farron, the Lib Dem leader, says the wealthy elite fuelling Leave will not be harmed by the interest rate rise that will follow Brexit. Would Cameron advise his Tory colleagues that there is a long-term economic plan on offer on Thursday - voting remain.

Cameron says it says volumes about the Remain campaign that the Lib Dems, Labour, the Greens and others are joining him in backing staying in the EU.

Jack Lopresti, a Conservative, says he hopes Britain will vote to leave the EU. Cameron himself said Britain could survive outside, he says.

Cameron says of course Britain can survive outside the EU. But the question is, how are we best off? On all the arguments, we are best off in, he says.

Siobhain McDonagh, the Labour MP, says M&S workers are due to face an effective pay cut because of the “national living wage”.

Cameron says he does not know about the situation at M&S. But he wants to see pay go up, not down. M&S won’t attract good staff if they cut pay.

Cameron says we will enhance the power of Britain by staying in the EU.

Alasdair McDonnell, the SDLP MP, says the SDLP is backing a Remain vote. The return of a hard border with Ireland would be bad for Northern Ireland.

Cameron says is the UK votes to stay in, we know what the situation is. If we were to leave, and make a big issue about borders, then there would be a land border with the EU in Ireland. You would need new border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Or you would have to have controls on people leaving Northern Ireland and coming to the mainland. We can avoid these risks by voting to stay, he says.

Robert Jenrick, a Conservative, says his parents set up a manufacturing business. Manufacturers are worried. They will have to sell to the EU, but they won’t have a say in deciding EU standards.

Cameron says Jenrick is making a v good point. If you leave the EU, and don’t have say over making those rules, you lose control; you don’t gain control.

Labour’s Ruth Smeeth says EU funds have helped her constituency. Does Cameron agree that a Brexit vote would leave us picking up the pieces of a broken economy for years to come.

Cameron agree. The UK would have to spend two years leaving the EU. Then it would have to negotiate a trade deal, with could take seven years. So overall it could take a decade to get a new trade deal.

He says the potteries industry would be affected by tariffs that would be imposed.

Labour’s Carolyn Harris says leaving the EU would be too big a risk.

Cameron says he agrees. If the pound were to fall, prices would rise and the cost of holidays would rise.

David Nuttall, a Conservative, asks when the government will get net migration below 100,000.

Cameron says EU migration was in balance last in 2008. He says the government has introduced sensible ways of reducing immigration. Leaving the EU would not be a sensible way, he says.

Cameron says we need to ensure migrants are working. But we should celebrate the contribution they make.

Corbyn asks about the flotilla coming up the Thames. He says EU reforms gave new powers to member states over fishing quotes. The UK government has given two thirds of them to just three companies.

Cameron says the value of the UK fishing industry has increased in recent years. No country in the world has a trade agreement with the EU that does not involve a tariff on fish.

Corbyn says the government still handed quotas over to just three companies. With just eight days to go until the referendum, Labour will be voting remain. He says Labour would oppose any post-Brexit austerity budget. Will Cameron condemn the opportunism of 57 of his MPs who voted for austerity measures but who have now have a Damescene conversion to anti-austerity.

Cameron seems to laugh before he gets up. He says on this he and Corbyn agree. When he and Corbyn agree, that really says something. Votes have consequences. If we vote out, there will be less tax receipts. We would need to address the hole in the public finances. There is only one thing worse than addressing a hole in your public finances, and that is by not addressing it. We can avoid that by voting Remain, he saus.

Corbyn says he is concerned about the expoitation of migrant workers. Will Cameron commit to outlawing agencies advertising jobs only abroad?

Cameron says he and Corbyn agree on the evils of modern slavery. The government will continue to take action to ensure that people are paid what they should be paid. He wants people to get a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.

Corbyn says Cameron did not answer the question. What communities need is practical solutions, like the migrant impact fund. Will Cameron agree it is a mistake to abolish that. And will he reinstate it?

Cameron says the government is looking to see if it can ban firms only advertising jobs abroad. The answer to many of these problems is to create new jobs. He says the government has a pledge in its manifesto to create a controlled migration fund. It agrees that it needs to take action to address the pressures created by immigration.

Jeremy Corbyn also offers sympathy to the relatives of those killed in Orlando. He attended a vigil to express his horror on Monday, he says.

He says three years ago there was agreement for implementation of Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act. Cameron said three years ago MPs did too much cosying up to Murdoch. Will Cameron keep his promise and implement Leveson in full.

Cameron says the government will decide about the second stage of Leveson when all prosecutions are underway. He has met victims. People can accuse him of many things, but not cosying up to Murdoch, he says.

Corbyn says he asked about Cameron meeting phone-hacking victims. He says the Leave leaders pretend to be saviours of the NHS. Wasn’t Sarah Wollaston right to criticise them?

Cameron says he is glad Wollaston changed her mind. He says he thinks the NHS will be stronger if the UK stays in the EU.

Peter Aldous, a Conservative, says a firm has put on hold plans to build a factory in Lowestoft.

Cameron says he shares Aldous’s concern about this. Many firms come to the UK to get access to the single market. He hopes people will vote to put our place in that beyond doubt.

David Cameron starts with sending his sympathies to the families and friends of those killed in the Orlando attack. It highlights the need to fight the poisonous ideology of Daesh, he says.

And this.

This is from the Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop.

Nigel Farage has tweeted this about Bob Geldof.

Bob Geldof has pulled alongside Farage’s boat and blasted “I’m In With The In Crowd” over a rig of four ear bleedingly loud speakers before taking the mic and declaring: “Nigel, you are a fraud.”

The Leave campaigners tried to shout back: “shame on you” but were drowned out.

Geldof attacked him as “no fishermans’ friend” as Farage stood at the prow of his boat facing the other way talking to Kate Hoey, the Labour leave campaigner.

Geldof’s sonic assault successfully drowned out Farage’s broadcast interviews.

Q: 57 Tory MPs have effectively expressed no confidence in you. Would you be around to pass these measures?

Osborne says measures like this would have to be passed. He says the only thing worse than not taking action would be not taking action. People need to know this, he says.

Q: Would Labour MPs back plans like this?

Darling says one of the reasons Labour MPs are fighting for Remain so far is that they precisely want to avoid having to take choices like this.

And that’s it. The Osborne/Darling press event is over.

The Brexit debate has taken to the waves. As we wait for Nigel Farage to join a flotilla of fishing vessels campaigning for Brexit by sailing upstream to the Palace of Westminster, a smaller fleet of Remain campaigners have embarked on vessels to come alongside, I think that’s the nautical term, and shout them down. Farage’s flotilla of about six vessels tethered near the north bank of the Thames near London Bridge l were just buzzed by the Sarpedon pleasure cruiser stuffed with black flag waving and jeering In campaigners and followed by more on a couple of inflatable ribs.

This is what Alistair Darling, the Labour former chancellor, has been saying at the Brexit budget event with George Osborne.

(Darling clearly has not seen what John McDonnell has said this morning - see 10.36am.)

Rolls-Royce has written to its staff saying it wants Britain to stay in the EU.

Here’s the Guardian’s story.

And here is Angela Eagle, the shadow business secretary, commenting on it.

This is yet further evidence of the benefits membership of the largest single market brings to British workers and businesses. Nine out of ten economists agree that Britain is better off in and that a vote to leave the EU is a threat to jobs and the economy.

Rolls-Royce is a world-leading engineering company and employs 23,000 staff in the UK. This letter to staff makes clear that the uncertainty of a vote to leave the EU would be unsettling for the company.

And back to the Osborne/Darling announcement.

More from the flotilla wars. This is the scene from Bob Geldof’s boat.

And here is Steven Woolfe, Ukip’s financial affairs spokesman, on George Osborne’s proposed pro-Brexit budget.

If George Osborne thinks he will still be chancellor in the event of a Brexit, he is living in cloud cuckoo land.

His conduct during this campaign – culminating in Project Fear’s nuclear bomb today – has been nothing short of disgraceful. Given this fact, his threat to hold a punishment emergency budget which promises tax rises and extra austerity should be treated with the contempt it deserves.

As George Osborne announces his hyphothetical Brexit budget, Tory MPs continue to criticise him.

This is from Owen Paterson, the former environment secretary, who is one of the 57 Tory MPs who has said they would vote against Osborne’s plans.

The Remain campaign have reached panic stations. They have lost all the major arguments and have now resorted to scaring the British people. They are taking us for fools.

If the Chancellor thinks he could pass such a punishment budget through the House of Commons he is utterly delusional. I wouldn’t hesitate about voting against it.

Here’s another extract from the Brexit budget.

Here is the key chart from the document.

Journalists have been handed the Brexit budget.

George Osborne is about to make his announcement about his proposed post-Brexit emergency budget shortly.

David Cameron is trying to arrange a joint pro-EU appearance with his predecessors Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Sir John Major, Christian Today reports. The story by James Macintyre (who used to be the New Statesman’s political correspondent) says: “Plans are well developed for the prime minister to appear on a platform next week alongside Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Sir John Major.”

But the Mirror’s Mikey Smith is with Bob Geldof on a rival Remain flottila.

Here are some pictures from the Brexit flotilla coming up the Thames.

And here is a statement from Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, about the flotilla.

The governing principle of the common fisheries policy is that of “equal access to a common resource”. Fish stock is that should be within the UK’s internationally recognised territorial waters are now shared our European Partners. This has led to a 60% drop in oversized landings and the loss of tens of thousands of jobs in our industry.

There are now many harbours without a single commercial vessel, not satisfied with that the EU is now regulating our recreational sea anglers. Under and EU regulation issued in December no anglers may take a single bass for tea.This is now leading to a loss of jobs in our charter angling fleet.

Compare and contrast all of this with Norway who control all fishing stocks up to two hundred miles within the North Sea and has a booming commercial and angling tourism industry. EU membership has destroyed our industry.

Today’s flotilla is not a celebration or a party but a full throttled protest. We want our waters back!

It is an opposition day in the Commons, which means the afternoon has been set aside for a debate on a motion tabled by Labour. Their motion, tabled by Jeremy Corbyn and others, is about the economic benefits of membership of the EU. This is what it says:

That this House believes that the UK needs to stay in the EU because it offers the best framework for trade, manufacturing, employment rights and cooperation to meet the challenges the UK faces in the world in the twenty-first century; and notes that tens of billions of pounds worth of investment and millions of jobs are linked to the UK’s membership of the EU, the biggest market in the world.

Here is a Guardian video explaining some of the EU referendum lies, myths and half-truths.

Here is ITV’s Robert Peston on George Osborne’s stance.

This is probably true, although the idea that Osborne had any chance of merrily carrying on a chancellor if Britain voted to leave the EU was implausible anyway. Although many senior Leave figures say publicly that they would want David Cameron to stay on as prime minister if Leave wins, in reality almost everyone thinks he would resign before the end of the year. And, with Leave winning and Cameron gone, Osborne would be out too.

Here is Jonathan Portes, a former senior government economist and now a fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, on George Osborne’s proposals.

Here is Robert Oxley, head of media for Vote Leave, on George Osborne’s proposed post-Brexit emergency budget.

Oxley is referring to the way that, when faced with an economic crisis in 2008, the then chancellor Alistair Darling increased borrowing and cut VAT by 2.5% to stimulate the economy.

Q: You are trying to scare people. This is a classic case of Project Fear.

Osborne says look at what investors are doing. Sterling is falling. Money is being taken out of the stock market. This is real money, in the real world.

And that’s it. The interview is over.

I will post a summary shortly.

Q: How will you get EU migration down?

Osborne says the government is addressing abuse of the welfare system. It will be harder for EU migrants to claim benefits. And the government is doing what it can to promote economic growth in eurozone economies.

Q: But 57 of your own MPs are saying they would vote against your emergency budget?

Osborne says the Today programme was first broadcast in 1957. He doubts there has been a time since then when a Tory and a Labour chancellor have agreed on what might have to happen.

Q: But with 57 MPs voting against, you could not pass this budget.

Osborne says he does not want to raise taxes. Alistair Darling agrees taxes would have to go up. Conservatives don’t like raising taxes. But they would have to fix the public finances.

Q: You would not be able to get this through the Commons.

Osborne says the Conservative government would do what was necessary.

Q: Voters may not believe you. Or they may think this is worth it. Is there anything more the government can offer on freedom of movement?

Osborne says it is all very well for people who are wealthy to say it does not matter if the country is worse off. Osborne says he cares about that. Brexit might be for the very richest in this country. But it is not for others.

He says voting to leave would be a “one-way exit”. Britain would not be able to reapply.

Q: The Guardian is reporting today that Number 10 is thinking of doing more on free movement. Is there anything new you will offer?

The short answer is no, says Osborne.

He says the government has plans to bring down immigration.

Q: But the economy was weak before the EU referendum campaign started.

Osborne says the country does face economic challenges. But cutting off your links with your closest trading allies is not the answer to any of those problems.

He says lots of businesses are delaying decisions before the referendum.

And today Leave are saying it would take four years to negotiate withdrawal. That is being optimistic. But during those four years there would be uncertainty.

Q: If you implemented this emergency budget, you would be breaking your law blocking tax increases.

Osborne says the government would have to to increase taxes. That is the reality. The country would not just be immediately poorer. It would be poorer for decades ahead.

If you are trading less, there is less money coming into the exchequer.

Sky News is reporting that 57 Conservative MPs say they would vote down a post-Brexit emergency budget of the kind dangled by George Osborne today:

Some 57 Tory MPs have written a letter saying they will vote down the Brexit budget, which would contain £30bn of tax hikes and spending cuts, signalling a significant escalation in the Conservative civil war over the EU.

The source of the 57 figure isn’t clear, but a number of Tory MPs, including Liam Fox and Steve Baker, have already spoken out against the chancellor’s announcement.

Chris Grayling, the leader of the House of Commons, also told Sky News this morning that he did not accept the £30bn figure cited by Osborne.

The British Medical Journal has published an editorial – penned by editor in chief Fiona Godlee and colleagues – on why it thinks doctors should vote remain. The authors acknowledge that this is “an unusual move” for the journal:

Some readers may wonder why the BMJ is intervening in a political debate. We think this issue transcends politics and has such huge ramifications for health and society that it is important to state our case …

It has become increasingly obvious that the arguments for remaining in the EU are overwhelming, and that now is not the time for balance.

The editorial says the leave campaign claims about the NHS “are simply wrong”:

Its constant claim that the UK sends £350m to the EU every week has been blown out of the water … But perhaps the most laughable untruth is that the NHS would be safer in their hands …

Those who want the UK to leave are not unlike the antivaccine lobbyists who, having forgotten the evils of measles, mumps and rubella, turn to the alleged harms of the vaccines themselves. Likewise Brexit campaigners have forgotten the evils of virulent nationalism because Europe has succeeded in containing them.