Ian Botham is a great of the game of cricket, former English test cricket player and a captain of the test team

He's come clean on which team he is batting for now, urging a vote for Brexit (Sunday Times in the UK reports)

Meanwhile, UK Chancellor George Osborne says every family in Britain will be £4,300 worse off if Britain leave the EU.

  • "... for Britain's economy and for families, leaving the EU would be the most extraordinary self-inflicted wound."
  • "Leave the EU and the facts are: Britain would be permanently poorer.
  • "Britain's families would be permanently poorer too."

Osborne will publish a 200-page Treasury analysis of the longer-term costs and benefits of EU membership and its alternatives on Monday.

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ps ... Added in,

UK April Rightmove house prices:

  • +1.3% m/m (prior 1.3% also)
  • For the y/y up 7.3%, prior 7.6%