future, the Remain camp led by the Prime Minister have

dominated the headlines, with blood-curdling warnings

about the economic danger of leaving.

But this week, the Leave campaign has put itself

The issue that's cutting through is immigration.

The EU immigration story really started back in 2004

when a surge of migrants arrived here from Eastern Europe.

The man in charge then, who is today a passionate advocate of Remain,

is Tony Blair the former Prime Minister.

And as gloves come off over immigration, one of the most vocal

opponents of EU membership and a likely contender in any Tory

leadership campaign, former Defence Secretary Liam Fox joins me.

Also here, reviewing our papers, a man who knows all about

the turmoil the euro has caused but nevertheless wants us

to stay inside the EU, Greece's former

Speaking of Greece, have we in this country too often treated it

as a sun-soaked holiday destination and not thought enough about

That's the theme of a new play starring Elizabeth McGovern

I caught up with a dressed down Lady Grantham at

And there's music from the Nashville singer who created what might have

been John Peel's favourite album ever, Laura Cantrell.

And alongside Yanis Varoufakis, one of Fleet Street's

leading Eurosceptic voices, The Daily Mail's Amanda Platell.

But first the news from Christian Fraser.

Two senior Conservatives have publicly challenged David Cameron

to accept the failure of his manifesto pledge

The Prime Minister promised to reduce net migration

The current figure is more than three times that amount.

Boris Johnson and the Justice Secretary, Michael Gove,

who both support the Vote Leave campaign, have written an open

letter, saying the promise to slash net immigration to the "tens

of thousands" is not achievable as long as the UK

They say the failure to keep this promise is corrosive

Downing Street described the move as "a transparent attempt

to distract from the fact that most economists think that leaving

the single market would be disastrous for jobs,

Iraqi government forces have made gains in their offensive to drive

so-called Islamic State militants from Fallujah.

Large numbers of troops have been deployed near the city and have

taken the town of Karma, which was the front

It comes just days after Washington said an Islamic State

commander was killed, along with dozens of militants,

A man has been killed in Poland and a child is on life support

in a French hospital after a series of lightning strikes across Europe.

The child was struck during a birthday party

According to local authorities, 11 people, including eight children,

were injured while trying to seek shelter under a tree.

The 100th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun,

the longest of the First World War, will be commemorated

As many as 800,000 soldiers are believed to have been killed

or wounded during the 1916 battle, which became known

The French President, Francois Hollande,

Angela Merkel, are expected to call for European unity when they lay

Now the front pages, you would expect lots of politics and you have

got them. David Cameron, to which to care about immigration, says Priti

Patel. We will talk about that later. I cannot show you the front

page of the Sun, but here is page two, all about the referendum. It is

about the shoot out after the poll. This is a pretty tough letter

because it suggests he undermined deliberately public trust by the

tens of thousands. On the Daily Mail,, this one takes a slightly

different view. The Observer, a massive boost for the Prime Minister

is over 600 economists reject or accept. That is the story that

Number Ten say the other stories are there to divert us away from. Yanis

Varoufakis and Amanda Platell, it is great to have you here. It signifies

a retreat from the Tories who are for the Leave campaign away from

what I consider to be their strong issue, sovereignty. They have

retreated to the Ukip agenda of scaremongering about migration. This

is very interesting because the two campaigns were against each other.

The Ukip campaign and the Tory campaign. What they have found...

This campaign has been running for some weeks now, the Leave campaign

have lost the argument on the economy so now they are thinking,

they had regrouped last week, we have one month to go, what can we

win on? Immigration. Their weakest argument from where I am standing is

migration. The fact they are treating simply shows panic and a

descent to an abyss from which I do not believe they can recover. It is

what a lot of people in this country really care about in terms of stress

on the NHS. Of course these are genuine concerns, but what I am

reading today in the paper is grabbing. To be clear, there was a

meeting earlier this week and this is a change of tack. Absolutely,

they realised they lost the argument on the economy. The euro is in the

perilous state, but they didn't win it, time is running out, so you go

back to what your strongest points are. In the Sun you have Michael

Gove having slagged off David Cameron in the Remain. He said the

five key facts David Cameron cannot answer, and it is immigration,

immigration, immigration... All of them are immigration. The force of

this letter is that it is true in that the tens of thousands promise

could not possibly be technically met ever so for the Prime

Minister... To go to the Prime Minister and say you have made a big

mistake... The Tories cannot say they didn't support this claim, they

supported it at the last election. Your point is an excellent one. The

worst enemy of the Remain campaign has been David Cameron, promises

that he has delivered that cannot be fulfilled. The forge that he came

back from Brussels, presenting it as a reformed, I am a supporter of

Remain but I wish David Cameron was not campaigning on my side. Very

good. Where are we going next? The Economist is next. A very brief

comment against my own lot. It was once said that if you laid every

economist in the world end to end, they still wouldn't reach a

conclusion. Indeed! But there was something worse to say about us. The

Royal economic Society, of which I am a member, these are the very same

economists to whom the Queen addressed a letter with a

devastating question, why didn't you see it coming? They spent three

months concocting the longest apology in the history of social

science. To have those same economists with wonderful predictive

powers... We don't trust you that much, with all due respect. You

shouldn't, we have never predicted anything! That is also true. There

is so much mud slinging, the knives are out of the back pockets, and you

see John Major saying he is savaging boorish Brexit. He is calling them

liars. What happens at the end of all of this? Do you take the view

that whatever happens in the vote there will be a leadership challenge

quite quickly? If I were to bet on it, yes, cause there is such mutiny

in the way the Government have used their resources to create this fear

campaign at the start of the election, and these people used to

be friends. Michael Gove and David Cameron used to be great friends,

you cannot go back from that. Also I have met up for drinks, I have to

say, with a number of these people who claim they are the ones who want

David Cameron out, who claimed they already have the signatures they

need. On John Major's point, if I may add, John Major is completely

right. The Treasury's figures are dodgy, not worth the paper they are

written on, but where John Major... He is highlighting the fact the

Leave campaign is also based on dodgy statistics. Let's face it,

this is a one-off event, it has never happened in the history of the

world for a country like Britain to leave the union like the European

Union. To pin down what this will mean for mortgages, the value of the

pound and so on, it is not based on scientific facts. The discussion

should be about sovereignty, about the effect of the Brexit on Europe,

on the British people, this is the discussion we should be having. I

think I have just found an economist I trust. I am going to stick however

with the Tory infighting story because my colleague John Pienaar

had an interesting chat with a Tory backbencher who said these are the

numbers, we are going to have this challenge, and that connects to

Priti Patel who was also going for the jugular. She was one of David

Cameron's proteges, she is going for broke now, distancing herself from

the leadership of the Tory party because these people suspect they

have a good chance of getting David Cameron up pretty quickly. It is a

sad fact that monumental referendum boils down to a Tory infighting

tussle about who will replace David Cameron. The Prime Minister has

already declared he doesn't want to be Prime Minister for much longer. A

lot of these campaigns are not Tory at all, the Labour Leave campaign,

the Remain campaign and so on. None of the big hitters are at the heart

of the opposition are actually putting their heads up. Yesterday at

UCL we had more than 1000 people and we try to do exactly that, to bring

the radical case for participating in the referendum from our Remain...

To actually animate it and have something to say that goes beyond

tactics. There are people on the left in this country arguing Brexit

should be supported because it will split the Tory party. This kind of

mindset, it is very petty, just as petty as the Tory side. This is a

significant juncture in the history of Europe and we should be worried

about its effect on the generations to come.

We are showing the Tony Blair interview in a little bit of time.

Blair is all over the papers as well of course, making his case. His main

argument seems to be if you have any concerns don't believe because there

is a devil that you know and a devil that you don't know. Beforehand, I

pleaded that David Cameron should not be trying to help the Remain

campaign. If that is so, imagine how much more it is pertinent in the

case of Tony Blair. Having Tony Blair on your side in any campaign

is a glass of poison. And you have picked up a story in the Sunday

Telegraph about the Chilcot inquiry. Yes, I am surprised by this issue,

whether he should be tried and imprisoned or or not. I think the

best outcome... From the point of view of history and humanity would

be for Tony Blair to be forgotten and treated with the contempt it

deserves. We have failed to forget him on this programme yet, I take

your point. Any last stories before we crashed out of the paper review?

There was this wonderful thing on Britain's Got Talent, a guy who used

to do magic tricks on the guy who used to do magic tricks, Burma

railway. It was absolutely fantastic, wonderful English heroic

patriotic music and there was this 96-year-old former card trick

magician. It was great TV. Tonight we are both going to be watching Top

Gear. We are both petrol heads. I'm looking to see how the BBC can

recreate the chemistry of the previous lot.

Now the weather, and I'm indebted to The Times for reminding me how

the American poet James Lowell described May - not just

a capricious month, "a pious fraud, a ghastly parody of real Spring".

So, for a weather forecast, delivered entirely in verse,

Wishful thinking! I have something much more corny. Sunshine, sunshine

in the sky, see-through clouds to tickle your eye. And the sunshine

will be tickling the eyes through the course of this afternoon. For

most other cities looking fine out there. It was quite grey over

eastern areas and on the North Sea coast, quite gloomy this morning

first thing, but now the sunshine is out and it promises to be a

beautiful and sunny Sunday. There are some showers in the forecast,

across northern and central parts of Scotland,

possibly even a thunderstorm. Showers across the hills in Wales

but temperatures widely in the 20s today. Cooler on the North Sea

coast. On bank holiday Monday, many of us have the day off with sunshine

around in western and central areas of the UK. We have been forecasting

Miss for the last few days, and we are expecting rain fall into East

Anglia, London and into Brighton later in the afternoon. Once again,

the vast majority of the UK should enjoy a fine bank holiday Monday

with lots of sunshine. Tuesday, back to work, and we are expecting some

rain but some areas will remain sunny in the west. Back to you. Rain

on Monday, there we go. Immigration became the main

theme of the Vote Leave Perhaps not surprising,

with the release of official figures showing net migration to the UK

at 330,000 last year. There's no escaping that statistic,

and it stands in contrast to David Cameron's target

of reducing immigration Now the Leave campaign have written

to the Prime Minister urging him to accept that this pledge has not

been met and is "corrosive One of the leading figures

on the Leave side, the Conservative former

Defence Secretary Liam Fox, is here. That letter that your side has sent

to the Prime Minister is a statement of fact, isn't it? No government