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The Government decided after all to retain the rules preventing ministers and their departments from publishing campaign material, ‘with some exceptions’, in the month before the referendum on membership of the European Union. The Electoral Commission said the planned wording for the referendum, ‘Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?’ could favour the status quo, and proposed adding the words ‘or leave the European Union?’ The government said it accepted the change, but Parliament must decide. Net migration to the UK had reached the unprecedented level of 330,000 in the year to March, according to the Office for National Statistics. Rebekah Brooks was to return as chief executive of News Corp’s British division, the Financial Times reported. Britain’s national sperm bank, in Birmingham, was found to have only nine donors.
George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, popped up to Faslane and announced an investment of £500 million in the base that serves Trident submarines, securing, he said, 6,700 jobs.
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