MPs have voted against the SNP's proposal to allow Holyrood to take full financial, tax and borrowing powers at some point in future. The nationalist amendment for full fiscal autonomy was defeated by 309 to 60 votes during the committee stage of the Scotland Bill in the Commons. Labour, which said the proposal was a "fudge", abstained.

Labour MP Toby Perkins, who is running Liz Kendall's campaign, tweeted , externala copy of the letter he's sent to rival candidates Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham. Here it is:

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The chairman of Liz Kendall's campaign for the Labour leadership has written to Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper calling for them to end anonymous briefing against her, particularly the description of her supporters as New Labour "Taliban", external.

Mr Burnham and Ms Cooper have distanced themselves from the anonymous remark, in the Daily Telegraph.

In the letter, Labour MP Toby Perkins said:

Here is what has happened in the world of politics today:

Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn has won himself a place in the Labour leader contest after securing enough nominations to get on the ballot . 

He said he wanted to "take part in that debate and hope that at the end of it the Labour Party emerges stronger".

On the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to put right the "complete mess" of  Britain's human rights laws . 

The SNP has sent a letter to the UK's Scottish Secretary David Mundell calling for  more powers to be included in the Scotland Bil l.

Jim Murphy, former Labour leader in Scotland, said the prime minister would give the SNP an "excuse" for another referendum of Scottish independence.

London Mayor Boris Johnson has called for a Nobel laureate who had to resign after remarks he made about women in science to be reinstated.

Sir Tim Hunt, a Royal Society fellow, said the "trouble with girls" in labs is that they "cry" when criticised and "fall in love" with male counterparts.

But Mr Johnson said the response was an "overreaction" and it was not wrong to point out "gender differences".

Ed Brown
Newsnight producer

I've yet to see a definitive list of the Labour MPs that didn't nominate one of their peers for the Labour leadership today - so I've created one.

Now, some of them can be fairly easily accounted for. Several of them (for example Tom Watson) are running for Deputy Leadership, and thus presumably don't want to tie themselves to one leader in case the party comes up with the "wrong" one. 

Lindsay Hoyle is the Deputy Speaker and so may have felt his position of neutrality in the house would be compromised by nominating.

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Back in the Commons, Scottish Secretary David Mundell has branded proposals for full fiscal autonomy for Scotland as a "full fiscal shambles", which would cost every family in Scotland £5,000 a year. He said:

Conservative MP John Redwood says he believes Scottish public opinion is fairly evenly balanced.

He says consequences of more financial independence for Scotland will have serious consequences for England.

Mr Redwood says he has become "less an advocate for Union, and more an advocate for England" over time.

In the Commons debate on the Scotland Bill the SNP's Westminster leader, Angus Robertson, says the election showed that the SNP had a clear mandate for change. He says it is the duty of the UK government to recognise Scotland's desire for change.

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The BBC's Norman Smith says No10 will "seek to address" the concerns of Tory MPs over so-called purdah rules in the EU Referendum Bill.

Eurosceptic MPs questioned whether a proposal to not have a four-week pre-referendum "purdah" period - during which here are restrictions on government announcements - could favour the Yes campaign to remain in the EU.  

The Government is facing the prospect of a backbench revolt over its plans.

Norman Smith says:

Sir Edward Leigh, MP for Gainsborough, says with full fiscal autonomy the Scottish government would be able to raise all taxes as it likes - "not just fiddling around with bands" - and would have full freedom to spend this as it likes.  

Committee-stage scrutiny of legislation that will devolve more powers to Scotland is being debated in the House of Commons. 

The SNP has sent a letter to the UK's Scottish Secretary David Mundell calling for more powers to be included in the Scotland Bill.

It wants Holyrood to have control of corporation tax, capital gains tax, the minimum wage and National Insurance.

The UK government has already confirmed it would reject an SNP amendment to introduce full fiscal autonomy.

Education Minister Sam Gyimah has announced that a promised review of childcare funding is under way.

At education questions, he told MPs he was launching a call for evidence today. The review is due to publish its conclusions in the autumn.

The government has introduced legislation to increase the amount of state-funded childcare for three-year-olds, from 15 hours a week to 30 hours a week. But childcare providers say government funding rates are not high enough to cover their costs.

Allegra Stratton
Newsnight Political Editor

The hardest policy question inside Whitehall at the moment is how to find the £12bn in welfare cuts. 

The narrative taking hold had been that Tories felt they couldn't actually do the £12bn and that they would prefer to do something lower. But maybe the government could actually go further? 

I understand they could. 

I am told Treasury officials have actually asked the Department for Work and Pensions to deliver information on £15bn worth of cuts, not just £12bn. Of course this might just be a scoping exercise. 

But it does suggest that the Chancellor still means business.

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