Laura Kuenssberg
Newsnight Chief Correspondent

So, he has made it. Labour MP, Jeremy Corbyn, has made it, just onto the ballot paper for the Labour leadership contest. So there will be four candidates on there – Corbyn, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall.

There are two ways of looking at his, as Corbyn nudged it with the help of nominations from MPs who have no intention whatsoever of actually voting for him in the end. The charitable view, is that Corbyn represents a strand of left wing opinion in the party that deserves an airing in the leadership contest.

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Magna Carta was the final subject under discussion on Daily Politics. The PM earlier hailed the importance of the document in a speech at the celebration of it being signed with a seal 800 years ago.

Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt quips that he's delighted the PM "now knows" what Magna Carta is about, recalling when he was unsure what its “literal translation” was when asked during an interview with US-talk show host David Letterman.

John McDonnell, who described himself as Jeremy Corbyn's election agent, said some of Mr Corbyn's nomination backers "most probably won't vote for Jeremy" but wanted to put him on the ballot paper to give party members a "proper debate". He told Sky News:

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Are you on the ballot to make Andy Burnham look less left wing? "That's an interesting idea," replies Jeremy Corbyn, who quips that he'll "put the idea to him". Looking ahead to the campaign, he says his view is that there should be no personal attacks or abuse amongst the candidates.

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On calls from some in the party to change the leadership rules, Mr Corbyn says many in the party feel the 35 MP threshold is "too high".

Reflecting on the election result, the Labour leader hopeful says Ed Miliband put forward some very good points - on zero hours contracts and the minimum wage - but he attributes the defeat to the party's plans for spending cuts, saying voters wondered "where is the real Labour alternative" to the Conservatives.

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Jeremy Corbyn says he got the 35th nomination with two minutes to spare. He acknowledges that some who nominated him may not agree with the platform on which he's standing but that they did so to ensure a full and wide debate in the contest.

The Islington North MP hopes the Labour Party will emerge "stronger" from the contest and is "more resolute" in opposing austerity.

Labour's Margaret Hodge says "quite a lot of us" felt the party had the wrong leaders running up the the elections in 2010 and 2015, but had no "workable mechanism" to do anything about it. She tells the Daily Politics she is backing Liz Kendall to be next leader - who she says is "bold brave and a listener". She also seems delighted to see Jeremy Corbyn making it on to the ballot paper.

Labour MP Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the Public Accounts Committee, tells the Daily Politics programme that coalition government helped break down "tribal" party loyalties during the last parliament. She said:

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So, Jeremy Corbyn has made it on to the Labour leadership ballot after getting the 35 nominations required.

In a move which may seem surprisingly, the Islington North MP was nominated by some colleagues who will not actually support him in the crunch vote. Former shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan, for example, said he wanted to see the left-winger in the contest to ensure a wide debate - but ultimately he does not want to see him elected as the next leader.

So what happens next? The formal result of the nominations process will be announced at about 13:00 BST (confirming what we already know: that this contest will be a four-way race between Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, Liz Kendall and Mr Corbyn).

There will be a series of public and televised hustings over the coming weeks and the winner will be decided by a vote of Labour Party representatives, members and affiliates, to be conducted on a one-member, one-vote basis.

The result of the contest will be announced before the party conference in September.

Reports suggest that Jeremy Corbyn received that crucial 35th nomination to get on the ballot paper as Big Ben chimed at 12:00 BST.

Jeremy Corbyn now has the backing of Harrow West MP Gareth Thomas. Can he get over the line? Three MPs to go. Three minutes left.