Here's a quick recap of today's events before we go:

The government announced new powers to tackle radicalisation. David Cameron claimed the UK has been a "passively tolerant society" for too long.

New figures showed unemployment in the UK has continued to fall. Politicians welcomed the statistics though Labour called on the government to help the young unemployed.

Labour's National Executive Committee drew up a timetable for the race to replace Ed Miliband as party leader today. Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham announced they would stand.

A major stand-off has developed between senior UKIP figures and the party's only MP, Douglas Carswell, over public money they are entitled to receive.

Kent Police announce the force is making inquiries into a report of electoral fraud in one of UKIP's target election seats: South Thanet, where party leader Nigel Farage stood.

And private letters sent by the Prince of Wales to Labour government ministers a decade ago have been published after a lengthy legal battle.

That's all until 06:00 tomorrow. Goodnight!

Newsnight

Liz Kendall, one of four to put their hats into the ring in the Labour leadership contest, has faced some litmus test questions from Evan Davis.

This is what we learned:

- she believes in the benefits cap

- she wouldn't rule out a 50p tax rate

- she believes in unleashing people's potential at every level of society

- healthcare services need to shift away from hospitals and into communities

- she denies being to the right of the party ("we have to go back to our roots. We come from a mutual co-operative")

Former Labour MP Alan Milburn has told BBC Newsnight his views on what went wrong for his party.

"I think parties - whether it's the Labour party or the Conservative party - they're perfectly capable of kidding themselves and frankly we've been through a pretty ghastly experiment over these last five years where our offer has been that the public have moved massively to the left following the global financial crisis when actually, when you look at issues like immigration or Europe, arguably they have moved the other way.

"We need a new generation untainted by the past to solve those problems."

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has become a “snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive” man who is making the party look like a “personality cult”, the party’s campaign director has claimed in an interview in tomorrow's Times, external .

Patrick O’Flynn, the party’s economics spokesman and one of its most senior MEPs, told the newspaper that the UKIP leader’s recent behaviour risked depicting the party as an “absolute monarchy”.

He reportedly claimed that the party leader had in recent months moved away from being a “cheerful, ebullient, cheeky, daring” politician, and blamed Mr Farage’s team of “aggressive” and “inexperienced” aides.

Shadow home affairs minister Diana Johnson appeared to back Ms Cooper, who she's worked alongside since 2011. The Labour MP tweeted, external : "Delighted that @YvetteCooperMP has announced she is standing to be Leader of the Labour Party with a strong message 4 future of country. "

Labour donor Assem Allam has said he will not give any more money to the party until it adopts a "pro-business" leader.

Mr Allam - who owns Hull City Football Club - has given £500,000 to Labour this year, which he claims makes him the largest single private donor.

In an interview with BBC Look North, the Egyptian-born businessman attacked Labour's election campaign, which he said was pro-union and anti-business.

Mr Allam did not state a preferred candidate, but said the next Labour leader should return to the policies offered by Tony Blair.

In an article, external in the Daily Mirror, setting out her bid to become Labour leader, Yvette Cooper pledged to “make life better for families”.

The mum-of-three says Labour lost the election because it failed to convince voters it “had the answers to match up with their ambitions”.

The shadow home secretary, whose husband Ed Balls lost his seat last week, also warns against the party trying to turn back the clock.

BBC political correspondent Tim Reid says a Labour official has confirmed the letter in support of Scottish leader Jim Murphy "does exist".

The spokesman said: "There is overwhelming support for Jim Murphy across the Scottish Labour Party. We need to work together to rebuild our movement and regain the trust of the people of Scotland."

Former Aberdeen South MP Dame Anne Begg, who was among the 40 Scottish Labour MPs to lose their seats last week, told our correspondent she'd put her name to the letter. Mr Murphy was not to blame for 10 years of Labour decline, she said.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced in an article in the Daily Mirror that she is standing for the Labour Party leadership.

Image source, BBC screen grab

Comedian Sandi Toksvig, who is packing in her radio show to help launch a new political party in September, has been plugging it on the BBC's One Show. The Women's Equality Party is non-partisan and welcomes women and men from the left and the right. She says she has no intention to lead the party, but merely wants to kickstart it, explaining:

Image source, Labour Party

Further reflection in the Labour ranks on what went wrong at the election. Angela Eagle, shadow leader of the Commons, has a take we've not heard before:, external

Nominations for Labour's candidate for London mayor close on 10 June and a shortlist will be announced on 13 June.

The last date to register as a supporter, affiliated London supporter, or a Labour Party London member will be 12 August.

Votes will then be dispatched on 14 August and the ballot will close on 10 September.

The party has not yet said when it will declare the result of the voting, but the new national Labour leader will be announced on 12 September.

Image source, EPA

Newly-appointed SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond calls on the government to accept the EU quota and take an extra 60,000 asylum seekers a year.

The MP tells Channel 4 News: "I think that Britain should take the full 60,000 and Scotland is certainly willing to take our proportionate share and we would argue for that.

Image source, Reuters

David Cameron and George Osborne have been criticised by the European Union for missing a Brussels-set target to cut Britain's budget deficit.

Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici called on the government to take action to curb its "excessive deficit" below 3% of GDP by 2016-17, after missing the original target to do so by 2014-2015.

Under the EU stability and growth pact, countries which use the euro can be subject to central sanctions for missing similar targets.

But, as the UK is not in the eurozone, the prime minister and chancellor will not have to worry about dealing with any binding sanctions.