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Former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and presenter Nick Ferrari kick off the radio programme - formerly known as "Call Clegg" - with Mr Clegg handing back £50 to Mr Farrari, who before the election placed a bet Mr Clegg would not return as deputy PM. Mr Clegg is then asked about the election which he said was going pretty well until:

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Nick Clegg has begun what LBC say is his first broadcast interview since the Lib Dems' crushing election defeat. We'll bring you the main points - you can hear it live here, external.

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It'll be less of a fanfare and more a quick bugle blast but today, at a scheduled summit of EU leaders in Brussels, UK Prime Minister David Cameron will - for the first time - officially present the outlines of his reform proposals for the EU.

In fact, it's a mere formality.

Ahead of the summit, Mr Cameron has spoken to other EU leaders individually about his reform agenda.

He will need them on board if, as promised, he'll settle for nothing less than fundamental changes in the EU ahead of Britain holding an in/out referendum by the end of 2017.

So the BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler asks what is David Cameron asking for?

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The BBC's head of statistics Anthony Reuben has attended the first public meeting of the investigation into what went wrong with the polling before the general election.

It is the British Polling Council's attempt to find out why all the pollsters spotted that the Scottish National Party was going to do well and the Liberal Democrats were going to do quite badly, but failed to spot the size of the gap between Labour and the Liberal Democrats and predicted a hung parliament.

Had they been copying each others' homework?

The star of the show was Martin Boon from ICM, who asked the unaskable question: is it still possible to get a representative sample over the telephone? 

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The issue of Britain's rapidly growing population tends to focus on just one factor - immigration. But are the "family friendly" policies of successive governments playing a part too?

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to do something about Germany's shrinking population, she boosted the state's financial support for working families and guaranteed a kindergarten place for children aged 12 months or older.

Yet when Britain's political leaders announce "family friendly" policies of their own - such as David Cameron's plan to double the number of free nursery places for three and four-year-olds in England - the potential impact on the size of the population is never mentioned.

Immigration is portrayed as the only factor that matters

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"It is a mess, and there aren't any easy answers. We are very fortunate we have the English Channel," former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett told Radio 4's Today programme when asked about the migrant crisis accumulating in Calais, France. 

He also called for "tougher action" helping the Italians and the Greeks who are taking in many migrants, and wanted greater collaboration with African countries to try and resolve the issue. 

When Nick Clegg returns to the airwaves this morning, he might well be asked about today's Guardian front page. The paper says, external Mr Clegg offered to resign a year before his party was routed at the general election, but was persuaded to stay on.

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Labour leadership candidate Liz Kendall has been on the airwaves this morning. Labelled as the Blairite candidate in the contest to replace Ed Miliband - a label she rejected -  she said the party would "kill for" the three election victories delivered by the former PM. She said she would offer a "fresh start" and not be bound by any factions within the party. She suggested she would not support a cut to the top rate of income tax.

An "obsession" with waiting times statistics is diverting attention from the "real issues" in the Scottish NHS, a leading doctor has said.

Dr Peter Bennie, chair of the BMA's Scottish council, said publishing weekly performance figures for A&E wards "misses the point".

And he claimed the Scottish government had "bowed to pressure" on the issue.

The government said it agreed waiting times were not the only measures on which the NHS should be judged.

It has set an interim goal of treating 95% of accident and emergency patients within four hours, in advance of meeting the full target of 98%.

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The government needs to do more to improve diversity in the civil service as progress has recently slowed, the public spending watchdog has warned.

The National Audit Office (NAO) said women, ethnic minorities and disabled people were under-represented, with a particular issue at senior levels.

Its study also found that some people were leaving Whitehall because they found the culture "exclusive".

The government said diversity had improved but there was more to do.

The NAO study into equality, diversity and inclusion in the civil service found that "good progress" had been made over time but had "plateaued more recently".

It said the Cabinet Office's "Talent Action Plan" to prioritise diversity in the civil service "acknowledged that while recruitment statistics show a good mix of people from a range of backgrounds, at senior civil service level, white middle-class males still predominate".

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A former Conservative defence minister wants to make it law for the UK to spend at least 2% of its national income on defence.

Sir Gerald Howarth will set out the proposal in a Private Member's Bill.

Ministers are under pressure to commit to Nato's target that members should spend at least 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence every year.

Nato figures show the UK is one of just five of the organisation's 28 member states to meet the target this year.

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There's been a fair amount of coverage this morning of the speech made by the Queen last night when she talked of the need for unity in Europe.

The UK monarch, who was at a state banquet in Berlin as part of a four-day visit to Germany, said that "division in Europe is dangerous".

Her speech was made in the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister David Cameron, who wants to reform the UK's EU membership.

Buckingham Palace stressed the comments were not about Mr Cameron's EU aims.

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David Cameron is to set out his EU renegotiation aims at a meeting of European leaders in Brussels later.

The European Council summit will be the first time the objectives have been collectively discussed by EU leaders.

However, with the agenda set to be dominated by the Greek debt and migrant crises, time will be limited for leaders to consider the UK's proposals.

The PM hopes it will pave the way for official negotiations to begin on the terms of the UK's EU membership.

Mr Cameron wants to make changes, before putting a revised package to a referendum of the British public by the end of 2017.

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A review has been launched into whether all UK overseas aid is being used "effectively", the Foreign Office says.

It comes as the Sun alleged, external that thousands of pounds of UK aid had been spent on a TV gameshow and on finding female mates for an endangered fish.

The Foreign Office said most aid promoted UK prosperity and stability, but the review would ensure every penny represented "value for money".

The UK's total overseas aid budget last year was £12bn.

The government says international aid is used to help an estimated 1.4 billion people around the world living in poverty.

But according to the Sun, almost £7,000 was used in an anti-litter drive in Jordan, while a project to promote "safe and responsible" use of Facebook in Laos, south east Asia, cost £970.

More than £13,000 was budgeted for a gameshow, which is set to be screened in Ethiopia later this year, the Sun said.

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Hello and welcome to our rolling political coverage. It's going to be a busy - and long - day with David Cameron set to outline the UK's renegotiation hopes to his EU colleagues over dinner this evening. Before then Nick Clegg is doing his first LBC Call Clegg phone-in since the election at 9am - but we'll start with a quick catch-up of the main stories running at the moment.