Summary

  • With seconds to go, Jeremy Corbyn gets the 35 nominations needed to enter Labour leader contest

  • Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall already had enough backers before the noon deadline

  • Events took place to mark the 800th anniversary of sealing of Magna Carta

  • Committee-stage scrutiny of legislation that will devolve more powers to Scotland begins

  1. Tory election chiefpublished at 15:57 British Summer Time 15 June 2015

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  2. Osborne's PMQspublished at 15:43

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    This week's Prime Minister's Questions will see a slightly different line-up than usual. George Osborne is to make his debut at the session on Wednesday, in place of David Cameron who will be in Europe lobbying leaders over EU reform. The chancellor is to face shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn across the despatch box from noon.

  3. Another Scottish referendum?published at 15:40

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    Jim Murphy, former leader of the Scottish Labour Party, says there will be another Scottish independence referendum "whenever the SNP can get away with it". 

    In his last speech before leaving front-line politics, Mr Murphy said he feared PM David Cameron was "so lame-assly dumb" on the matter he would "stumble into it and give them an excuse to do it".

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    There will be another referendum whenever the SNP can get away with it. Why wouldn't there? If you are an insurgent nationalist party with unprecedented power and with an absolute majority... why wouldn't you try and engineer a set of circumstances to get you another referendum?"

  4. Leadership 'oddity'published at 15:42 British Summer Time 15 June 2015

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  5. Is it me you're looking for?published at 15:24 British Summer Time 15 June 2015

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  6. Leadership changespublished at 15:15

    BBC Radio 5 Live

    Frank Field, the Labour MP for Birkenhead, said he was championing party changes to allow it to remove leaders as a "direct response" to Ed Miliband's and Gordon Brown's time in office. He claimed Labour would not have lost the 2010 general election if it had a different leader to Mr Brown.

  7. MPs react to Corbynpublished at 15:05

    John Mann

    Jeremy Corbyn's inclusion on the list of Labour leadership nominees has drawn criticism from some MPs, while being welcomed by others.

    Labour's John Mann tweeted, external: "So to demonstrate our desire never to win again, Islington's Jeremy Corbyn is now a Labour leadership candidate."

    However, ex-shadow cabinet minister Sadiq Khan said he had nominated Mr Corbyn - without the intention of voting for him in the ballot - to ensure the "widest possible debate".

  8. Fleeting visitpublished at 15:11 British Summer Time 15 June 2015

  9. Is it MPs you're looking for?published at 15:11 British Summer Time 15 June 2015

  10. Afternoon catch-uppublished at 14:54

    So, on what has been another busy day, here is a recap of what has happened so far:

    - Veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn has won himself a place in the Labour leader contest after securing the required 35 MP nominations to get on the ballot

    - Speaking on the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta Prime minister David Cameron says he want 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 Bill.

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  11. Education questionspublished at 14:50

    In the Commons, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan is  taking questions from MPs...

  12. Charles Kennedy fundpublished at 14:40

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    A memorial fund will be set up by the University of Glasgow to commemorate the life of its former student and rector Charles Kennedy, the formal Lib Dem leader. The fund will name a teaching area or lecture theatre within a planned new building at the university. 

    Principal and vice chancellor, Professor Anton Muscatelli, said: "We feel that this would be a fitting and permanent tribute to Charles's life and work."

  13. Murphy warns about Europepublished at 14:30

    Jim Murphy also criticised Labour leadership contenders for declaring they would not share a pro-EU platform with David Cameron during the referendum.   

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    "We cannot afford to leave Cameron a space to be centre stage and to claim the credit for saving Britain from a catastrophe to which a large part of his party are hand maiden."

  14. 'Labour divisions must end'published at 14:16

    Jim MurphyImage source, PA

    Former Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has called for the party's leadership election to mark an end of Labour divisions, which he said were a "self-indulgent and self-destructive struggle". 

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    One of the exciting things about this leadership contest is that we can genuinely move beyond those old divisions borne of the mid-1990s."

  15. The totals are inpublished at 14:08

    Lists released by the Labour Party have confirmed how many nominations each of the leadership contenders received:

    Andy Burnham - 68 nominations

    Yvette Cooper - 59

    Liz Kendall - 41

    Jeremy Corbyn - 36

  16. Will runway ever take off?published at 13:44

    Kamal Ahmed
    Business editor

    HeathrowImage source, Heathrow Airport

    At a conference in November, Willie Walsh, the chief executive of International Airlines Group which owns British Airways, said that he did not hold out much hope that a new runway would ever be built in south-east England.

    A year earlier he had been equally gloomy. In the next few weeks, the Airports Commission is due to hand its final report to the government - recommending runway expansion at either Heathrow or Gatwick.

    But even that significant moment in the fraught debate on airport capacity is unlikely to leave Mr Walsh feeling any more confident. Read Kamal's full blog here.

  17. Corbyn's 'anti-austerity movement'published at 13:35

    Jeremy  Corbyn said his place on the Labour leadership ballot paper marks the launch of a "broader anti-austerity movement" in the country. He said:

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    We secured these nominations as a result of a massive campaign across the country by Labour supporters urging Labour MPs to allow for a wide-ranging democratic debate within our party. Social media played a large part of this campaign. My candidacy marks the launch of a broader anti-austerity movement to shift the terms of political debate in this country by presenting an alternative to the socially devastating and widely discredited austerity agenda."

  18. 'Rescue' human rightspublished at 13:23

    The World at One
    BBC Radio 4

    Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan has been talking about the 800th anniversary today of Magna Carta. It was "the first moment on the planet that the rules were elevated above the ruler". He speaks of the need to "rescue" human rights from the negative image he says they have today.

  19. Murphy speechpublished at 13:22

  20. No 10 on EU referendumpublished at 13:15

    Robin Brant
    Political Correspondent

    Downing Street

    The prime minister expects EU leaders to discuss his plan to renegotiate the terms of the UK's membership at a meeting later this month and then a period of "detailed technical discussion on the details" will follow. The prime ministers official spokeswoman said the UK was on a draft agenda for the meeting in Brussels but she could not confirm if it will be discussed, repeatedly describing it as a "packed agenda" with Greece's future likely at the top. She said the government's aim was to "continue to make progress on the renegotiation and start to get in to some of the technical discussion that will be needed". 

    On the issue of the EU referendum campaign and Downing Street's plan to lift the usual restrictions on what government departments and ministers can say in the final weeks before voting the spokeswoman said David Cameron wants to address concerns expressed by some of his own MPs. Some Eurosceptic MPs have said it is unfair that the government could use its machinery to promote the case for staying in the EU during the campaign. She would not say what specific proposals the government had in mind.