Summary

  • Newsnight hosts first televised hustings for Labour leadership contenders

  • Chancellor George Osborne stands in for David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions

  • David Cameron and George Osborne "losing patience" with Chilcot report delays

  • Mr Cameron travels to Italy for talks with the country's prime minister

  • Five Labour MPs qualify for deputy leader contest: Watson, Flint, Creasy, Bradshaw and Eagle

  1. Tough sellpublished at 19:53 British Summer Time 17 June 2015

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  2. Cooper recalls time on welfarepublished at 19:50

    Labour debate

    How are you going to end the "sense of entitlement" of some welfare claimants, a woman in the audience asks.

     Yvette Cooper says "clear rules" are needed and that she believes in people's responsibility to work to support themselves. She goes on to say that she was off work sick for a year 20 years ago (she suffered from ME), relying on welfare, and "as a result, I would never say that people who can't work are workshy". The language used has to be "responsible", she adds.

  3. Labour MP reactionpublished at 19:45

    It will be interesting to see what the reaction from Labour MPs to the Newsnight debate is on Twitter. Will any change their minds or stick to cheering along campaign lines such as these:

  4. 'Nice but incompetent'published at 19:46

    An audience member says Labour are seen as "nice but incompetent", while the Conservatives might be nasty but they "get things done".

  5. Budget surpluspublished at 19:40

    Jeremy Corbyn says achieving a budget surplus is not the most important thing to aim for. 

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    The most important thing is to ensure our community has a health service, an education service and where young people are housed and have the ability to go out and educate themselves."

     "I don't agree with Jeremy on this," says Liz Kendall. People didn't trust us with their finances, she says. "We have to back businesses."  

  6. Next uppublished at 19:37 British Summer Time 17 June 2015

  7. Sturgeon's influencepublished at 19:37 British Summer Time 17 June 2015

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  8. Pic: Cooper in actionpublished at 19:35

    Yvette Cooper
  9. 'Personality politics'published at 19:34

    Asked if he really believed he could win the election Jeremy Corbyn says he did not "borrow" any votes to get on the ballot paper (some MPs lent him their votes to get him over the required threshold). He says he is putting forward a valid point of view, adding:

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    People have had about enough of personality politics. They want something which is much more about movement politics."

  10. Angry audience?published at 19:33 British Summer Time 17 June 2015

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  11. Sturgeon comparisonpublished at 19:30

    Labour debate

    The next questioner asks what qualities the panel share with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, which would make them a successful party leader. Yvette Cooper says she respects Ms Sturgeon, saying it would be "fantastic to smash the final glass ceiling" and appoint a female leader. But she declines to endorse Ms Kendall if she isn't successful just so Labour has a woman in charge.

  12. Pic: The Newsnight debate audiencepublished at 19:28

    The debate audience
  13. Pic: Jeremy Corbyn in actionpublished at 19:26

    Jeremy Corbyn
  14. Immigration clashpublished at 19:26

    The panel is now debating immigration. Liz Kendall says she will never try to "out UKIP UKIP". Andy Burnham says the "undercutting" of British wages by foreign workers has to stop. A man in the audience then tells the panel:

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    You live in a different world to me."

    He says he's seen nothing to convince him so far, and says an "infrastructure" is needed to "absorb" the large numbers of immigrants coming to the UK. Jeremy Corbyn asks him what sort of NHS there would be with no migration. Migrants add to the economy and claim less in benefits, he adds.

  15. Who's in charge?published at 19:20 British Summer Time 17 June 2015

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  16. UKIP 'protest vote'published at 19:17

    Labour debate

    A fireman in the audience says he voted UKIP at the election as a protest vote over public sector cuts. Liz Kendall says the UK must live within its means, and says this is a Labour, not a Tory value.

  17. Blurred lines?published at 19:16

    One audience member in Nuneaton says the lines between Labour and the Conservatives have blurred and calls for a distinct voice from the party. In his answer Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is still "paying the price" for the "illegal" Iraq war. Labour has an "opportunity to rediscover its principled roots", he says.

  18. Pic: Kendall in actionpublished at 19:13

    Labour contenders
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    Liz Kendall makes her "no baggage" point

  19. Baggage?published at 19:13

    Burnham

    Let's build on Labour's past successes, says Andy Burnham. Liz Kendall says she has no "baggage" unlike Mr Burnham and Ms Cooper. Ms Cooper, however, says she makes no apology for having run a multi-million pound government department.

  20. Still going strongpublished at 19:11 British Summer Time 17 June 2015

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