Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

Downing Street has accused reporters of "wrongly" reporting that he would demand ministers support him during an EU referendum campaign.

Number 10 said journalists at the G7 summit had "over-interpreted" his remarks.

Downing Street said the prime minister was only referring to ministers having to support the government during the renegotiation process. Number 10 declined to speculate on what the Prime Minister's position would be during the referendum campaign itself. 

Pressed over whether the PM would expect minsters to support the government position during the referendum campaign, Mr Cameron's spokeswoman said: "We are not getting into that. That is for further down the road." 

Asked about whether the PM would allow a free vote or insist on collective responsibility over the government's position, the spokeswoman repeatedly stressed these were hypothetical questions which she would not answer. 

"There is a clear approach on renegotiation," she said. "The prime minister has not talked beyond that."

The Daily Politics

Ahead of MPs debating the second reading of the Scotland Bill, the SNP's Stewart Hosie and Conservative Iain Stewart join Jo Coburn on Monday's Daily Politics.

And there will be a debate on the EU referendum campaign with UKIP's Mark Reckless (above), who used to be a Conservative, and Tory MEP David Campbell Bannerman (top), who was previously in UKIP.

The Financial Times' Beth Rigby and Torcuil Crichton from the Scottish Daily Record will look ahead to the week. Later in the programme, there will be reaction from a panel of MPs: Conservative Oliver Dowden, Jo Stevens for Labour, and the SNP's Michelle Thomson.

And the German "comedy ambassador to London" Henning Wehn will talk satire in his home nation, as G7 leaders meet in the Alps.

Viewers on the desktop site can watch the programme via the Live Coverage tab above.

The Daily Telegraph

Boris Johnson says the prime minister should strike while the iron's hot and forge ahead with EU reform following the party's victory in the general election. 

Writing in the Telegraph, external, he says: "My friends, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

"This is the first time in my adult existence that Britain is leading a campaign for change and reform in the EU that is backed up by the prospect of an in-out referendum. 

"We cannot be half-hearted; we cannot just throw this chance away. Now is the time to rev up our engines, and fan out through the gap. It is clear that David Cameron is already making the running in Europe."

The Guardian

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Former Conservative chief whip Andrew Mitchell says Prime Minister David Cameron should allow Tory ministers a free vote. He told the Guardian, external:

Tim Loughton, co-chair of the Conservative Fresh Start group calling for EU reform, said the party needed to be "focusing on getting the best possible deal" for reform and not saying Tory ministers had to "vote for it regardless".

He said it would be wrong to "shackle" Conservative ministers and MPs when it comes to the EU referendum vote and that they needed to "decide individually" if the best possible deal for Britain has been achieved.

"We should be given a free vote like everyone else in the country," the former children's minister added.

Boris Johnson says he is confident David Cameron will be successful in his EU negotiations - but that "if he doesn't get the deal he wants", then it has to be open to Britain that there is an "alternative future".

Mr Cameron has said the government will not be neutral in the referendum on Britain's membership, which will be held after he renegotiates the nation's relationship with the EU.

Mr Johnson says that does not automatically mean the government would support staying in the EU:

The government is unlikely to succeed in its aim of running a budget surplus by the end of the current parliament, ratings agency Moody's has said. 

It also says that if the 2017 In/Out referendum planned by the government leads to the UK leaving the European Union, it will hurt economic growth and put the country at risk of a ratings downgrade. 

Read more on our business live page here .

The Guardian

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Jeremy Corbyn says there has "never been a more important time" to rebuild the Labour Party. 

The Labour leadership contender, writing in the Guardian, external, says:

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There is a second reading for the Scotland Bill in the House of Commons later. MPs will consider, and vote on, plans to devolve more powers to Scotland. 

The bill follows the recommendations of the Smith Commission, which was set up after the independence referendum.

It would give Holyrood control over income tax rates and bands, a half share in VAT revenues and a greater say over welfare powers in Scotland.

The SNP say the bill falls short in almost every way.

Read more here.

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Former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine has been speaking to the BBC about the EU referendum. 

Talking to 5 live's John Pienaar on Sunday he said the ministers had to toe the government line on the EU to avoid "absolute chaos". 

He said the country could not be governed unless ministers had a "clear view" that the public could "support collectively".

Listen here. 

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Not only has Ed Miliband had Harriet Harman's comments to contend with this morning, but shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has told the Guardian, external the former Labour leader "allowed himself to be perceived as uninterested in schools policy". 

This, writes Sebastian Payne in the Spectator, external, amounts to "kicking Miliband when he is down". 

 Mr Hunt says Labour is in the process of rethinking its strategy and adds: "Education has to be a part of that inquest, because we signally failed to use the potency of education policy – its focus on the future, its capacity to craft a different society, its centrality to wealth creation and work – to offer a compelling enough vision of a Labour Britain."

Victoria Derbyshire

Fancy hearing stats about the G7 summit in Germany? Well luckily for you, BBC assistant editor Norman Smith has been giving the Victoria Derbyshire programme some figures. 

He says there are 10 miles of barbed wire at the site with some 17-18,000 police officers patrolling to keep the leaders safe. The cost of setting up such an event is between £100m and £145m and it is thought it will have attracted some 8,000 protesters.

Because of this, he and the media are being "helicoptered to work" from the media centre to the "Teutonic castle" of Schloss Elmau where the talks are taking place. It makes a change from taking the 134 bus, our correspondent adds.

Labour's interim leader Harriet Harman, in an interview with the Independent, external, says that some of the party's supporters were glad they had not won the election.

Post-election focus groups spoke to one supporter who said they were "a little bit disappointed and a little bit relieved" about the result - with that view echoed across the country, the newspaper said.

Labour put across the "wrong message" in its campaign, with doubts about economic credibility and the leadership of Ed Miliband costing votes, said Ms Harman.

She has commissioned Deborah Mattinson, who worked as Gordon Brown’s pollster, to find out exactly why voters had turned against the party. 

If you want to know more about the planned EU referendum, there's a handy BBC guide here .

The Spectator

Could David Cameron avoid a difficult row over Europe if there is no free vote? 

Isabel Hardman thinks so. She writes that "there is still a chance that the Tory leader may have a plan to reunite the party after the vote":