Summary

  • A report says restoration of Parliament without moving MPs and peers out would cost £5.7bn and take 32 years

  • If MP and peers were moved out for six years, the cost would drop to £3.5bn, the report adds

  • UKIP deputy chairwoman Suzanne Evans is facing the sack after she said party leader Nigel Farage was perceived as "very divisive"

  • European President Martin Schulz says compromise is needed over EU reform during talks with David Cameron

  • Subsidies for new onshore wind farms will end on 1 April 2016, a year earlier than expected

  • London mayor Boris Johnson has been caught on film swearing at a taxi driver

  1. Thursday's politicspublished at 23:15

    Question Time continues on BBC One and on the Live Coverage tab above. Don't stop there - This Week follows straight on afterwards, rounding off a busy political day:

    Restoring the Houses of Parliament without moving MPs and peers out would cost £5.7bn and take 32 years , a report has revealed

    UKIP deputy chairman Suzanne Evans is facing the sack after she said party leader Nigel Farage was perceived as "very divisive"

    David Cameron says his negotiations to reform the UK's relationship with the EU are getting "a good response"

    Results of the elections to chair Parliament's powerful select committees were announced

    It was announced that subsidies for new onshore wind farms would be ended a year early 

  2. 'Rigged' questionpublished at 23:12

    Question Time

    A man in the audience says the EU referendum question is "rigged" and says the options should be "in or out" not "yes or no". David Dimbleby turns to the panel's "expert on referendums" Alex Salmond - who believes the real problem is the lack of a "purdah" period before the poll.

  3. Trading blocpublished at 23:09

    Caroline Flint

    Caroline Flint says she wants to see EU reform but will be voting to stay in because it is a "powerful trading bloc".

    The value of the UK's exports to Belgium is the equivalent of our exports to India, Brazil and Russia combined, she says.

    A man in the audience suggests leaving the EU, in order to renegotiate our way back in.

  4. 'Scare stories'published at 23:08

    David Davis

    David Davis says the "scare stories" about job losses if the UK left the EU are "unmitigated rubbish". Switzerland and Norway, which are outside the union, are "pretty happy", he adds. Asked how he will vote in the in/out referendum promised by 2017, he says it depends on David Cameron's renegotiations - but concedes that "the one thing I want is probably more than we are going to get". He won't be leading the No campaign but might take part in it, he adds.

  5. Postpublished at 23:05 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

  6. 'Denying reality'published at 23:03

    Alex Salmond says it would be "denying the reality of history" if the UK was not part of the EU. England and Scotland are European nations, he says.

  7. What if we left the EU?published at 22:57

    Would it really be that bad if the UK left the EU, is the next question. Lionel Barber, of the Financial Times, thinks it would. Melanie Phillips says the UK has to be a self governing nation.

  8. Postpublished at 22:56 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

  9. 'Religious fanaticism'published at 22:52

    Question Time

    Columnist Melanie Phillips criticises the "political class" for "constantly saying this has got nothing to do with religion". Alex Salmond responds:

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    You cannot argue that the Western world has been immune from religious fanaticism."

  10. Role modelspublished at 22:50

    Young people need role models and to know "there is an alternative" says a man in the audience. Another audience member questions the level of responsibility of the women's families.

  11. 'Impractical'published at 22:42

    Alex Salmond says it is "impractical" to say the security services and police can prevent anyone from travelling to Syria. For all the stories about people who have "got through the net", there are plenty who have turned away from terrorism, he adds.

  12. Syria questionpublished at 22:40

    The first question asks whether it is right to blame the security services after three sisters from Bradford were feared to have travelled to Syria with their nine children. David Davis says it is right to ask the question but we need to find out more about what happened.

  13. #BBCQT startspublished at 22:38

    Question Time

    Question Time is up and running in High Wycombe. On the panel are Labour leadership contender Caroline Flint, Conservative MP David Davis, the SNP's Alex Salmond, columnist Melanie Phillips and Financial Times editor Lionel Barber.

    Watch on the live coverage tab above.

  14. Coming up on late-night political chatpublished at 22:30

    This Week

    Andrew Neil is joined by Diane Abbott and Michael Portillo, along with former Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik who will present a film on radicalisation.

    The ex-Labour justice minister will say why he thinks the UK is failing as a nation to deal with the problem, and that mosques should provide a sense of a real Islamic morality.

    The film rounding up the political week will come from Nick Watt - that's him dressed as The Stig - before comedian Josh Widdicombe joins the panel for the spotlight section.

    That's all live at 11.35pm, straight after Question Time.

    This Week
  15. Newsnight line-uppublished at 22:14 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

  16. 'Fundamental change'published at 22:11

    Announcing the formation of their "exploratory" EU referendum committee, the cross-party group of MPs say:

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    The prime minister set this objective when he described the renegotiation in his Commons statement of 23 March as 'an opportunity to reform the EU and fundamentally change Britain's relationship with It'. However, there is little if any indication that the government is even asking for significant reform or fundamental change."

  17. The birth of the Out campaign?published at 22:05

    Robin Brant
    Political Correspondent

    Seven MPs from three different parties have formed a group to act as a precursor to the Out campaign in the EU referendum.

    The former Conservative cabinet minister Owen Paterson and UKIP's only MP Douglas Carswell are among them.

    The "exploratory committee for the EU referendum" also includes Tories Steve Baker and Bernard Jenkin, as well as Labour MPs Kate Hoey, Kelvin Hopkins and Graham Stringer.

    In a statement the committee says "this is not the Out campaign" but it adds "we are seeking urgently to provide resources for crucial thinking and to promote co-operation amongst those who might contribute to an OUT campaign".

    Sources say that donors and professional campaigners are being approached.

  18. Coming up later...published at 21:12 British Summer Time 18 June 2015

    Watch on the Live Coverage tab above

  19. Charles Kennedy thanksgivingpublished at 20:04

    Charles Kennedy thanksgiving

    A thanksgiving service for former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy is under way at Glasgow University. You canfollow live updates here.

  20. UKIP's Evans facing the sackpublished at 19:28

    Robin Brant
    Political Correspondent

    Suzanne Evans

    UKIP's most senior woman is facing the sack after she told the BBC's Daily Politics party leader Nigel Farage was perceived as "very divisive".

    Deputy chairwoman Suzanne Evans has been dropped as a party spokesman and officials in the party have been told to have no further contact with her.

    The instructions are contained in an internal party email seen by the BBC.

    UKIP email

    Ms Evans had been speaking about what role Mr Farage might play in the EU referendum campaign.

    "I think Nigel is a very divisive character in terms of the way he is perceived. He is not divisive as a person but the way he is perceived in having strong views that divide people.

    She went on to say that she thought "somebody else" would front the out campaign in the in/out referendum, promised by 2017, but that Mr Farage should play a "significant part".

    Read the story in full here