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The government published a Treasury analysis warning that an exit from the EU would plunge Britain into a year-long recession and could cost 820,000 jobs. David Cameron, the Prime Minister, speaking with George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at B&Q’s head office in Hampshire, said that leaving ‘would be like surviving a fall then running straight back to the cliff edge. It is the self-destruct option.’ Downing Street said that leaving the EU would make an average holiday for four people to the EU £230 more expensive. Gillian Duffy of Rochdale, the nemesis of Gordon Brown, the former Labour leader, spoke in favour of the Leave campaign. Ed Miliband, the former leader of the Labour party, spoke in favour of the Remain campaign outside a branch of Vision Express in Wigan.
The North Yorkshire County Council planning committee gave permission for fracking at an existing well near the village of Kirby Misperton. Birmingham’s children’s services, which Ofsted has rated as inadequate since 2009, were to be run by a trust. Taxpayers lost £97 million of earning time hanging on for HM Revenue and Customs to answer the telephone, according to the National Audit Office. The Central and Victoria lines of the London Underground would begin to run all night on Fridays and Saturdays from 19 August, Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London said; but then maintenance workers belonging to the Rail, Maritime and Transport union voted to go on strike. Manchester United sacked Louis van Gaal as its manager in favour of Jose Mourinho.
Stewart Hosie resigned as the deputy leader of the Scottish National Party after publicity about an affair with the same journalist with whom another SNP MP had an affair. A man convicted of murdering a homeless man in 1992 was found wandering in the gardens of Buckingham Palace after climbing the wall and was jailed for four months for trespass on a protected site.
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