Summary

  • Unite leader says the union may reconsider relationship with Labour

  • EU referendum should be brought forward, say two Labour leader candidates

  • Labour facing 'greatest crisis', and needs fundamental rethink, says MP Jon Cruddas

  • Ministers could sack headteachers, and force schools missing targets to become academies, under government plans

Live Reporting

Tom Espiner and Marie Jackson

  1. 'Coasting schools'

    BBC Breakfast

    Elizabeth Glinka

    Schools could be forced out of local government control if they consistently underperform. If schools have average results with no prospects of improvement, they could be forced to become academies. BBC presenter Elizabeth Glinka says under the plans regional schools commissioners will have the power to sack headteachers in failing schools, or schools that are "coasting". There are also plans for more academies and free schools, which are set up from scratch. The NUT says there is "no convincing evidence that academies improve education."

  2. Good morning

    Labour lost at the general election because it focused on a series of micro policies instead of thinking about who it represented and its values, MP John Cruddas will say in an interview with The World This Weekend later.

    Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has said  new powers to sack head teachers  in coasting schools will show "it is not OK to be just above the level of failing". Ministers could also force schools missing targets to become academies under government plans.  

    And Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham has called on David Cameron to bring forward the EU in/out referendum to 2016, and said there should be a renegotiation over immigration in an article in The Observer .