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Mary Creagh said Labour was trusted to run the NHS, councils and schools, but parts of the electorate did not trust it to run the economy. 

"Labour needs a fighter - and I am a fighter," she said. 

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Andy Burnham tells the GMB hustings Labour had lost touch with many supporters and was seen as a "Westminster elite", talking in "political code". 

"I will take Labour out of the Westminster bubble and will lead a party that people can relate to," he said. 

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Mr Corbyn, the most left-wing of the candidates, was cheered when he said it was unfair to have a £23,000 benefit cap. 

He told delegates his purpose in standing was to raise issues about how to face austerity and the way the Government will treat people over the next five years. 

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Conservative Damian Green, a former immigration minister, says that it is in the UK's interests to remain a member of the EU, particularly, he says, once David Cameron's reforms to the bloc are achieved.

The Ashford MP remarks that Europe is a "curious" subject in British politics as for some "it is an all-consuming passion" but for the "vast majority" of  British people it "rarely features" in the list of  things they really want government to get to grips with.

Some more from the Labour leadership contenders. 

Liz Kendall says the party is under "mortal threat", adding: "The scale of the defeat means we must change or face irrelevance."  

Andy Burnham says Labour has lost its emotional attachment with millions of people and that he will take the party out of the "Westminster bubble", while Mary Creagh says she is a GMB member - and also pro-business. 

Yvette Cooper repeats that candidates should not swallow the Conservative manifesto - and that they will only win on Labour values.

Time for a maiden speech - from Justin Madders, the new Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston. It is customary for such speeches to be uncontroversial and fairly short, with a tribute to the previous MP in the seat.

Labour leadership contenders are addressing GMB members at the union's annual conference in Dublin. 

During the hustings, the five MPs have spoken about the task of rebuilding the party - and made it clear how much work needs to be done. 

Jeremy Corbyn, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Mary Creagh are facing questions from trade union activists.

"If we do not achieve fundamental change we will have to leave the European Union," says Sir Bill.

He warns that to simply remove the term "ever-closer union" from EU treaties - which Mr Cameron reportedly wants to do - "will not solve the problem", as it "doesn't change the legal obligations" of the various treaties.

"The rolling back of these treaties is imperative and in our national interest," he adds.

GMB leader Paul Kenny said former New Labour ministers – whom he didn’t name - were the reason working people had stopped voting for Labour:

The leader of the GMB union has railed against what he called “old has-beens in the Labour Party” complaining that the party’s manifesto at the last election was too left-wing. 

Speaking at the union’s congress in Dublin, Paul Kenny said: 

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Veteran Conservative MP and Eurosceptic Bill Cash warmly welcomes the planned referendum, which he says is a culmination of more than 20 years of campaigning.

He congratulates David Cameron for carrying out his commitment to hold an in/out vote, saying it has come about because he "listened" to backbench opinion. The Stone MP urges him to "listen again now" to ensure the poll is "fair".

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Nigel Dodds, the DUP's leader at Westminster, says the prime minister must deliver "real and tangible" changes to the EU project and address concerns about "ever-closer union".

But the Belfast North MP objects to the idea of the the vote being held on the same day as elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The SNP's Alex Salmond raised similar concerns earlier.

Conservative Cheryl Gillan says she agrees with "almost every single word" Kate Hoey said. 

She says she welcomes the bill, adding: "Almost my entire adult life, Europe seems to have dominated the debate."

The relationship with the EU should be "recalibrated", says the Chesham and Amersham MP.

The Institute for Government is calling for reforms to the ways that select committees operate.  In a report,, external  it says there were major advances in the scrutiny role of select committees in the last Parliament. But it says more needs to be done to build on that progress.

It makes several recommendations, including for committees to spend more time "cultivating their ‘softer’ sources of influence, such as expertise and relationships, and be less quick to resort to their formal status and powers". It also says the system needs to be better equipped to identify successes and learn from failures.

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Labour MP Kate Hoey also says she wants to make an important distinction - between the EU and Europe. 

"I'm not anti Europe," she says. "I'm anti an unelected, absolute dictatorship that we have from the European Union."

While we're on semantics, she uses her "last 30 seconds" (time has now been cut back to eight minutes per speaker) to urge the prime minister to refer to a UK referendum rather than a British referendum. 

"Britain excludes Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom - they will have a hugely important say in the referendum," she adds.