The under-pressure ex-MP is expected at a press conference at Scottish Labour HQ in Glasgow - after a meeting of the party's executive following the general election which saw Labour lose all but one of its Westminster seats in Scotland - all to the dominant Scottish National Party.

Labour leadership candidates are asked: How will you rebuild economic credibility for the Labour party?

Mary Creagh: "People have forgotten the econoic credibility that the last Labour government had... Were we wrong to run that structural deficit before the crash? Probably not, but this was a question of a few billion."

Tristram Hunt: "We should admit that we spent too much in the last Labour government."

Liz Kendall: "The effective stewardship of the public finances is essential to winning back people's trust... There's absolutely nothing progressive about spending more on debt interest payments than educating our children."

Andy Burnham: "We must demonstrate to people that we can run sound public finances, that you can get the deficit down but in a balanced way, not all from tax increases, nor from spending cuts."

Yvette Cooper: "At the heart of this has to be a strong economy in all parts of the country, not just some."

The Labour leadership candidates are asked: What does Britain look like under your Labour government?

Yvette Cooper: "We want it to be stronger and fairer... We have to unite our communities, we have to defend that core Labour value that we are stronger when we stand together than when we leave people to sink or swim alone."

Mary Creagh "I want to see a country that is united, outward looking, and can face the future with confidence."

Tristram Hunt: "I'd like to see cultural confidence, where people fell they can celebrate their Scottishness, their English identity, their Welsh identity, a Labour party that supports that." He adds he wants "a much smarter level of public expenditure".

Liz Kendall: "I came into politics because I believe in the equal worth of every single human being in this country."

Andy Burnham: "I want [people]... to feel an emotional connection with [a Labour government].

The Labour leadership candidates (and a potentially undeclared candidate in the case of Tristram Hunt) at the Progress meeting are asked a question, and each given the chance to respond.

How come the shadow cabinet are only saying now that Labour's election campaign was wrong?

Andy Burnham: "We are a team, and politics is about loyalty... Ed was the leader, I was loyal to Ed, loyal to Gordon, loyal to Tony. That's right. I think, we should be loyal in politics."

Yvette Cooper: "We have to take responsibility for this."

Mary Creagh: "We all have to take collective responsibility."

Tristram Hunt: "I didn't think the result was going to be as bad as it was... The Conservatives are frankly surprised at the scale of their victory."

Liz Kendall: "I did argue that we needed to focus on reform of our public services to get better value for money... Ed was our leader, he got our loyalty and support."

Sir Peter Fry, who was the Conservative MP for Wellingborough for 28 years, has died at the aged of 83.

He won the Northamptonshire seat in a by-election in 1969 and held it until he lost it by 187 votes in 1997. That election was also marred by Sir Peter having a heart attack during the campaign. He blamed his defeat on UKIP intervening to poll 1,192 votes.

Nigel Farage is to sack UKIP economic spokesman Patrick O'Flynn as part of a "purge" of UKIP "coup plotters", The Telegraph reports, external . Other people who face possible disciplinary action are UKIP deputy chair Suzanne Evans, and Douglas Carswell, the party’s only MP.

There is an element of generational contest in the Labour leadership battle, political correspondent Iain Watson told BBC News earlier. Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh weren't involved in the last Labour government. "On the other hand, we've got Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham who will potentially have to defend their record in government," he says.

Today is "D-Day" for Labour in Scotland, as our correspondent Laura Bicker tells BBC News. "This is about the future of a party which once dominated Scotland."

Labour leader Jim Murphy faces a motion for a vote of no confidence after Scottish Labour was wiped out at the polls by the SNP.