More on the appointments to David Cameron's new government announced tonight. Former Immigration Minister Mark Harper is also expected to become the Conservative chief whip. Full story here.

Four police officers and a member of police staff have been injured in "unplanned" anti-austerity protests in Westminster today.

During the protest graffiti was daubed on a war memorial in Whitehall.

A Downing Street spokesman said: "Spraying graffiti on war memorials is a despicable display of disrespect for those who fought and died for their country, particularly at a time when the whole nation comes together to commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE Day."

On Twitter at the moment the hashtag #ThanetRigged is gaining popularity after some UKIP supporters appear to be suggesting that Nigel Farage missing out on his chance to become MP of South Thanet involved some sort of foul play.

The Huffington Post has pulled together an article, external from some of the tweets.

Michael Gove will become Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor. He will be given a brief to look at prisons, sentencing and criminal justice. Chris Grayling will become Leader of the House of Commons. Nicky Morgan will continue as Education Secretary and Minister for Equalities.

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Labour veteran John Prescott has criticised Ed Miliband's failed "presidential-type" general election campaign.

The former deputy prime minister said he wasn't keen on the Labour leader's "Hell, yes, I'm tough" boast and said the party had paid the price for failing to defend the economic record of the last Labour government in the last parliament.

Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Lord Prescott said it had been a "bloody disastrous" result for the party as David Cameron secured the first outright majority for the Conservatives since 1992.

"We fought a presidential-type election based on computers, charts, focus groups and even the American language - Hell yes? Hell no!" he wrote.

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Zac Goldsmith, who was re-elected as the Conservative MP for Richmond Park, with a majority of 23,000, says his party has work to do to repair the damaged relationship between voters and politicians.

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The note famously left by Labour's outgoing chief secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, for his successor ("I'm afraid there is no money" it said) was regularly brandished by David Cameron during the election campaign.

The PM used it to highlight what he said was Labour's disregard for the public finances. Now Mr Bryne has given his perspective in an article for the Guardian, external, saying he is "so sorry" for what he calls a "crass mistake":

The BBC's Brian Wheeler was in Westminster this evening, where four people were arrested during what police called an "unplanned" anti-austerity protest:

The Spectator challenged its readers to put their own twist on Rudyard Kipling’s rousing poem, If. Here's the first verse from one of the winners:

IF – For Nicola (by Brian Murdoch)

If you can lose a referendum and still act

As if you’d won it, time and time again;

If you can claim you’re going to make a pact

But never make your real conditions plain;

If you can try to split from the UK

Then six months later make it clear to see

That now you want to rule the lot your way,

Yet still play down illogicality;

For the rest of the poem and other winners, click here., external

Police release an updated statement on the "unplanned" anti-austerity protests in Westminster.

The spokesman said: "Four people have been arrested for a variety of offences under the Public Order Act, 1986.

"Officers are aware of criminal damage to the Women's War Memorial in Whitehall and are investigating.

"There are no reported injuries to any members of the public.

"One police officer and one member of police staff have been injured policing this protest. Both are being treated in hospital. The officer is being treated for a suspected dislocated shoulder. The member of police staff is being treated for a cut lip after being struck by an object.

"Officers are working to minimise disruption to all road users and members of the public passing through the area."

BBC colleagues tell us that the protest around Whitehall seems to have settled down now. About 100 protesters were kettled, we're told. There have been no reports of any arrests so far.

Gagan Kumar