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Ajmal Masroor, an imam and broadcaster and a member of the Muslim Council of Britain, tells BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the government is planning "draconian measures" to combat extremism.

He accuses the Tories of being driven by an "extreme right wing, neo-conservative mantra" which was "held in check" by the Lib Dems before but now is not.

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The SNP has announced that the former first minister of Scotland and party leader, Alex Salmond, will become his party's foreign affairs spokesman at Westminster. Alex Salmond was elected for the constituency of Gordon last week, one of 56 SNP MPs now at Westminster. One of the reasons he has been chosen for the role is because of the importance of Europe in light of the EU referendum which the Conservatives have promised will take place before the end of 2017.

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The latest Office for National Statistics figures show that in the year to March 2015, the number of non-UK national workers rose by 294,000, while the number of UK nationals working in the country increased by 279,000.

Asked about those numbers, the prime minister's official spokesman told reporters:

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Conservative peer Lord Dobbs discusses the new extremism laws. "This is a very difficult area" because in some ways we are talking about the "hallowed" right of freedom of speech, he says. But "this is a pernicious evil presence in our midst" and we must find ways to protect our young people from it, he adds.

On the subject of Mediterranean migrants, Lord Dobbs agrees with Theresa May that we must try to cut off the flow "at source" and it is right to say that not everyone who crosses the sea should be allowed to stay in Europe.

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Sadiq Khan has launched his bid to be Labour's candidate for mayor of London. He told the London Evening Standard: “For the last eight years you've seen a red carpet mayor, somebody who is fantastic going to openings, great with a flute of champagne in his hands. I’d rather roll up my sleeves and fight for all Londoners.”Read more here., external

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The prime minister's spokesman has said the government will consider whether further steps are needed to allow correspondence between senior royal figures and ministers to remain private. The spokesman said the government's view has not changed - it has argued that there is a strong case for a ministerial veto on Freedom of Information requests for such material. He said the court ruling on the letters from the Prince of Wales had created "some uncertainty" and added "we will consider this issue". Read more on the Prince Charles' letters.

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Zac Goldsmith, Conservative MP, had said he "wouldn't want to stand for re-election" in south-west London if the question of Heathrow expansion was still on the table. He is vehemently opposed to it. That didn't mean he wouldn't stand though, he tells the Daily Politics, just that he didn't like having to do it.

But he argues: "The MPs who put up the biggest fight against Heathrow expansion massively increased their majorities." If the party's position going into the election had hardened behind expansion there would have been seats lost, he insists.

Mr Goldsmith also says his position hasn't changed: "If my party gives a green light for expansion I have to trigger a by-election... [but] unlike you I don't think that's going to happen."

Would he fight it again as an independent? "I haven't thought that far."

Robin Brant
Political Correspondent

A party with just one MP and there are serious splits, almost unbelievably.

On the one hand, you’ve got a principled row between Douglas Carswell and other senior figures. He doesn't want to take the money, but some figures at the top of the party believe they need the money and they should take it.

On the other, there's something quite nasty going on in private between Carswell and one senior figure close to Farage, briefing against each other. I think there's some dishonest versions of what's going on and it's all quite nasty.

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Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has suggested she would be "happy" to work with UKIP to push for changes to the electoral system. Together the two parties won millions of votes but only one seat each.

Asked if the Greens would stand alongside UKIP on a platform for electoral reform, Ms Bennett said: "Lots of people who were in seats where they have never thought about electoral reform before are looking at their MP or local council and are saying 'How did we end up with that? That's not what we wanted.'

"So I think we will see a grassroots campaign and we will be supporting that and very happy to join with anyone else who supports that."

UKIP MP Douglas Carswell is embroiled in a dispute with party officials over "Short money" - an annual payment to the opposition parties in the Commons to help them with the costs incurred in performing their parliamentary functions .

It takes its name from former Labour MP Ted Short, who was instrumental in its introduction as leader of the House of Commons in 1974 and 1975.

The amount payable to qualifying parties is £16,689.13 for every seat won at the most recent election plus £33.33 for every 200 votes gained by the party.

The equivalent of Short money in the Lords is known as Cranborne money, named after the then leader of the Lords Viscount Cranborne.

"It looked like the dinner party from hell," writes political sktechwriter Ann Treneman in The Times,, external after David Cameron's first all-Conservative cabinet met yesterday.

The cameras were allowed in at the start of the meeting, before being quickly ushered out once the prime minister had made a short opening speech, in which he talked of "blue collar conservatism".

That meant that "the screen went blank, just when the interesting bit started," Ann Treneman writes.

Earlier on Victoria Derbyshire, ousted MPs Sir Nick Harvey and Tom Harris said they were looking for work after losing their seats last week. Another former MP in the same boat has been the recipient of an unlikely offer, according to Sussex paper The Argus., external

Supporters of Liberal Democrat Stephen Lloyd, who lost Eastbourne to the Conservatives, have offered to pay his mortgage so that he can stand again in 2020.

"Fans leapt to his rescue by creating a Facebook group and said if each of the 20,201 people who voted for him paid £9 each, his £175,000 mortgage would be paid off and he could concentrate on winning back his seat in five years," the Argus reports.

However, Mr Lloyd said he had only raised the topic of his mortgage to point out that he was not in a position to run a five-year campaign for re-election.

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New MPs arriving at Westminster get a green badge, a tablet computer, a security pass - and a buddy to help them settle in. Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming met the SNP's Anne McLaughlin and Richard Arkless, Labour's Rupa Huq, and Conservative James Cleverly. He heard about their struggles with London transport and their first day in the new 'office'.They feature in this film airing on Wednesday's Daily PoliticsAnd on the programme from 12:00 BST, newly-elected MPs John Nicolson and Tulip Siddiq will talk about their new careers.

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Responding to the latest employment and pay figures, shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves says: "It's obviously welcome news that unemployment is falling and pay is starting to pick up."

However, she tells the BBC News channel that youth unemployment is still a problem.

"You're three times more likely to be unemployed if you'ere a young person."

She calls on the government to boost skills and provide more apprenticeships.

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"I've already ruled myself out" of the leadership contest, Labour MP Rachel Reeves tells the BBC News channel.

The shadow work and pensions secretary says she is deciding who she will back for Labour leader but argues that the party must "occupy the centre ground".

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Dal Babu, a Muslim former senior police officer, spoke to Victoria Derbyshire earlier about the government's planned counter-extremism strategy.

He said any new counter-extremism legislation must be introduced "with the full co-operation of the community". He said he was pleased to see the home secretary saying she was looking at far right extremism as well as Islamist extremism, adding: "It's important that we look at extremism in the whole."

Earlier this year, Mr Babu said the government's anti-terror strategy had become "a toxic brand", which many Muslims saw as a form of spying.

Tom Harris, who was one of so many Scottish Labour MPs to lose their seats to the SNP, gives his view of the polls ahead of the election.

"I know they were wrong in England. I wish to God they were wrong in Scotland but they weren't. They were bang on."

He had been predicting a near wipe-out north of the border for some time.

"I cleared my desk before Parliament rose before the election. That's how confident I was."

Like Sir Nick Harvey, he is not sure yet what he will do next.