The World at One
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Labour's Emily Thornberry says there is uncertainty surrounding the EU referendum which is "a problem", particularly for businesses wanting to invest in the UK. Responding to Ms Soubry's praise of the PM, Ms Thornberry claims that before the election Mr Cameron "would storm out of meetings" and "grandstand". That brings the panel discussion to a close.

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David Cameron's EU renegotiation aims are under discussion on the World . Conservative Anna Soubry says in 2010 she wasn't in favour of having an EU referendum but is now "very happy" for it to go ahead. When? Whenever is the right time, she replies.

The minister says she's in favour of the UK remaining in the EU, and praises the PM for doing "an astonishing job" with the negotiations. "It seems almost everything and anything is on the table," she says, adding that there is "a movement" taking place in Europe because many people know it has "got to change" if it is to survive.

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Conservative Anna Soubry says the best way to get people out of poverty is by growing the economy and getting more people into work. She also cites rises in the national minimum wage. She says the relative measurement of child poverty "doesn't make sense" as "it is not a genuine measure of poverty".

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Conservative minister Anna Soubry says that changing the way child poverty is measured was under discussion in the coalition government,although no progress was made. 

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There has been some debate today about how child poverty should be measured. David Cameron spoke earlier this week of an "absurd situation" where "if we increase the state pension, child poverty actually goes up".

Former Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry says she doesn't understand the government's point, as if pensions are going up why aren't child benefits? She says she's "suspicious" about the timing, with statistics about to be published showing child poverty "Is getting worse".

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Asked whether it is it time for the government to abandon the net migration target, minister Anna Soubry tells the World at One: "No, not at all," and goes on to endorse the government's approach.

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Small Business Minister Anna Soubry criticises the French authorities for "doing nothing" to protect the people in Calais, citing a case of a 14-year-old living in "squalor" in the camps. "It's a hugely complicated problem", she says, "but it is a French problem to solve, and we are helping them".

Labour MP and former Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry says there needs to be better security around the ports and the entrance to the Tunnel. If people are genuine asylum seekers "that's a different issue", she says, whereas economic migrants have "no right" to be in either France or Britain - and should be dealt with.

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Parliament

Theresa May is still on her feet in the Commons answering questions about the situation in Calais. 

She tells MPs that in the forthcoming immigration bill, expected later this year, the government will be looking at the issue of responsibilities for hauliers and other parties "to make sure our border in as secure as possible".

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Commenting on the situation in Calais, Tony Smith, former UK Border Force director general, says he "can't emphasise enough" the strategic importance to the UK border of having "juxtaposed border controls" in Calais and working "constructively" with the French.

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Commons officials "only just managed to stop" protesters storming into the Commons chamber in the middle of prime minister's question time, says the BBC's Norman Smith, in the most "chaotic scenes in all my years of covering Westminster".

A group of about 20 people, some of them in wheelchairs, were protesting against cuts to the Independent Living Fund, in a "calm and perfectly reasonable" way when a "huge cheer went up" and they charged towards the MPs' entrance to the Commons.

- Norman Smith was delivering his One o'clock TV report from College Green, opposite the House of Commons, instead of his usual camera position because broadcasters had been banned from central lobby in the wake of the protest.

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The chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Keith Vaz, tells MPs that the issue is the Mediterranean, saying that once migrants get to Calais "it is too late". The Labour MP says that is why he welcomes the establishment of the government's new taskforce as "they are the key to preventing people setting sail in the first place."

He says the home secretary has his support in trying to ensure other EU countries bear their responsibilities as well.

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Protesters tell BBC News that the MPs John McDonnell and Chris Law are negotiating with police in Parliament's central lobby.

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Parliament

Conservative MP Ken Clarke asks Theresa May if she agrees it's not possible for European countries "simply to ship back" people where they face death and oppression. He asks if work is being done to create civilised camps where people can be held while they are processed.

The Home Secretary tells him it is wrong to assume the people arriving are all refugees or have valid asylum claims. She tells Mr Clarke that many of the people crossing from Libya are economic migrants who are coming illegally into Europe.