Summary

  • David Cameron outlines plans to tackle child sexual exploitation, but Labour says they don't go far enough

  • Oxfordshire serious case review highlights extent of child sexual exploitation problem

  • First Minister Nicola Sturgeon sets out her economic strategy, with a focus on tackling inequality

  • Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt delivers a statement on maternity services at Morecambe Bay

  • There are 65 days until the general election

  • Rolling political news, including key moments from Today, Breakfast, Daily Politics and Newsnight

  1. YouGov, pollsterspublished at 07:03 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    tweets:, external Update:, external Cons lead at 3 - Latest YouGov / Sun results 2nd Mar - Con 35%, Lab 32%, LD 7%, UKIP 15%, GRN 6%; APP -18

  2. Sturgeon on inequalitypublished at 06:57 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    Nicola Sturgeon will use a speech later to try and shift the Scottish debate onto social mobility issues. The Scottish first minister will claim that recent research from the OECD suggests a more equal society could have boosted Britain's GDP by nearly £100bn in 2010. "We want to see economic growth that is inclusive, innovative and fairly distributed," she's expected to say. Scottish Labour agree that inequality is a big issue, but insist they have a plan to tackle it. Here's the story.

  3. Hull bound?published at 06:55 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    On the subject of relocating Parliament, how about Hull? That's a suggestion BBC2's Daily Politics looked at on Monday.

  4. Crumbling parliamentpublished at 06:53 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    Palace of Westminster

    The Palace of Westminster, which hasn't had a major renovation since its construction in the mid-19th century, will have to be "abandoned" if nothing's done, John Bercow warned last night. At a Hansard Society event in parliament, the Speaker said taxpayers would have to brace themselves for a £3bn bill - and MPs and peers might have to temporarily find somewhere else to hold their debates. "If we were to decant, should we consider all options including, almost certainly, a regional option?" Mr Bercow pondered. "We should." Our story on his comments is here.

  5. Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfieldpublished at 06:51 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    tweets: , externalWill be interesting how media deals with child abuse revelations in Oxfordshire compared to Rotherham @BBCr4today

  6. 'Girls let down'published at 06:48 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    Today's summit coincides with what is expected to be a damning report on child sex abuse in Oxfordshire. Lead investigator into that case Det Ch Insp Simon Morton said has told the BBC police "completely let the girls down". Read more.

  7. Analysis: child sex abusepublished at 06:42 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    Alison Holt
    Social Affairs Editor, BBC News

    David Cameron will talk about classifying child sexual abuse as a national threat. The idea is to push it up the agenda because one of the issues that comes up time and again is that other policing priorities have tended to be placed before protecting vulnerable teenagers.

    It's also about educating professionals because it appears that in the past they sometimes put what was happening to these girls down to lifestyle choice. These are teenagers who are difficult to communicate with, stroppy when someone asks if they need help, but point being made is that they are still children. They need the professionals to stick with them to get their trust.

  8. A sin-bin for MPspublished at 06:40 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    Labour's focus today is about repairing politics as a whole, not just Parliament. Shadow leader of the House Angela Eagle is outlining plans for political reform which she says are essential if politicians are to "restore faith in our political process". Today's package includes previously advertised plans to give the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds, press ahead with devolution and replace the Lords with a Senate of the Nations and Regions. But it also includes new proposals to send rowdy MPs who are misbehaving in the Commons chamber into a rugby-style sin-bin. "Sometimes MPs take it too far and it turns the public off," Ms Eagle explains.

  9. Child sexual exploitationpublished at 06:24 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    Rochdale skylineImage source, Getty Images

    David Cameron is in Downing Street today with a raft of senior cabinet figures holding a summit on child sexual exploitation. Representatives from local areas like Rochdale, as well as victims and child protection experts, will size up the government's new package of measures, which includes:

    • Tougher penalties for senior public sector workers who fail to protect children

    • A new national whistleblowing helpline

    • The prioritisation of child sexual abuse by police chiefs

    "We owe it to our children, and to the children who survive horrific sexual abuse, to do better," Mr Cameron says. Here's the full story.

  10. Control order rowpublished at 06:23 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    The issue of Syria - and specifically whether the government's decisions on counter-terrorism might have made it easier for would-be jihadists to travel there - was the subject of an urgent Commons question on Monday. Yvette Coooper, shadow home secretary, pressed her opposite number Theresa May on the issue, but Mrs May was adamant that she had taken the right decisions, including scrapping control orders, to keep the UK safe.

  11. Round the housespublished at 06:20 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    Yesterday, housing was the big focus, with David Cameron announcing a plan for 200,000 new starter homes. For his part, Ed Miliband was unimpressed and said Labour would go further - he accused Mr Cameron of presiding over the slowest rate of house building since the 1920s.

  12. Good morningpublished at 06:14 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2015

    Hello and welcome to a fresh Tuesday's political coverage. Victoria King and Alex Stevenson will bring you all the action, reaction and analysis in text and you'll be able to watch and listen to all the main BBC political programmes, from Today and Breakfast through to Newsnight and Today in Parliament. Don't forget you can get in touch by emailing politics@bbc.co.uk or via social media @bbcpolitics. Here's how Monday unfolded.