Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happenNumber 10 lobby briefing - SummaryLunchtime summaryMervyn King suggests he could vote for Brexit 3.47pm GMTSporting Index,a spread betting company, has opened a book on the EU referendum. It expects Remain to get 54% of the vote and Leave 46%. 3.42pm GMTThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) could be forced to pay compensation to victims subjected to sex offences at the hands of Libyan soldiers while training in the UK, and the Press organization reports.
Five Libyans were jailed final year after a court heard they raped and sexually assaulted victims in Cambridgeshire after a collapse of discipline at Bassingbourn Barracks where they were based. Their arrests brought an end to a British government promise to aid war-torn Libya by training army cadets in the UK following the 2011 collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com