Summary

  • Cabinet discuss reaction to Tunisia attacks as the confirmed UK death toll rises to 22

  • Education Secretary Nicky Morgan announces plans for tougher exam targets for schools in England

  • Labour leadership contenders Liz Kendall and Andy Burnham set out plans on welfare-to-work schemes and the minimum wage

  • They and rivals Jeremy Corbyn and Yvette Cooper take part in trade union hustings

Live Reporting

Victoria King and Alex Hunt

  1. Kendall speaks

    Liz Kendall is the final candidate to give her opening speech.

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  2. Burnham opening

    Shadow health spokesman Andy Burnham was next up

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  3. Cooper's turn

    Next up was shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper with her opening remarks.

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  4. Labour debate

    The Labour trade union hustings are under way. We'll bring you reaction from Twitter. First up was Jeremy Corbyn.

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  5. 'Spurious'

    The Daily Politics

    Peter Lilley says fracking company Cuadrilla should appeal against the Lancashire decision because the planning officers have made the ruling on the grounds of visual impact, and he thinks that is "largely spurious and it might be overturned by an inspector".

  6. Greens on fracking

    The Daily Politics

    In response to Peter Lilley, Caroline Lucas says: 

    We can argue about how safe or not it is... but even if we could imagine the best regulation in the world that would somehow be able to protect us from the water and air pollution... the bottom line is that fracking is about getting more fossil fuels out of the ground at exactly the time when the scientists are saying we need to leave 80% of known fossil fuels in the ground to avoid climate change."

  8. Labour tax plans

    Political website tweets...

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  9. 'Betrayal of Labour values'

    The Daily Politics

    Chris Leslie

    Chris Leslie, Labour's shadow chancellor, tells the Daily Politics "we do have to make sensible savings", but it's a "totally bogus" comparison to liken the UK to Greece as George Osborne has done when justifying his economic stance. "We have to make proper savings to areas that are not vital for our productivity, for our economy because if we cut off economic growth that's not going to get us out of our deficit," he continues.

    Mr Leslie also reiterates Labour's backing for a cut to the benefit cap - the total amount of benefits a household can receive - but that angers Caroline Lucas.

    She says: 

    That is such a betrayal of Labour values. The idea that you now have to show that you're fiscally muscular in some sort of showdown with George Osborne... there is no reason at all to cut that welfare cap and you're hurting some of the poorest people by doing that."

  10. 'More distrust'

    The Daily Politics

    Caroline Lucas

    Green Party leader Caroline Lucas is asked about Education Secretary Nicky Morgan's decision to issue schools with guidance on how to spot children at risk of radicalisation.

    "I'm not entirely clear that teachers are much the wiser as a result of this intervention," she tells the Daily Politics.

    "For many young people, teachers are people they can trust... this only breeds more distrust in our schools."

  11. Kendall on 'continuity Miliband'

    Liz KendallPA

    Labour MP John Woodcock, one of Liz Kendall's main backers for leadership, has branded Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham "continuity Miliband" candidates.

    Asked about the characterisation at her Reuters event this morning, Ms Kendall said: 

    People need to think about who is the leadership candidate that isn't just going to argue for a little bit of change, who is going to face up to the scale of the challenge, who is going to be the candidate that the Tories really fear because they are facing head on people's concerns about their money, about welfare and have a properly broad pitch."

    She said "some of the leadership candidates" had described her backing for deficit reduction and her pro-business stance as "Tory values. "It's completely wrong," she added.

  12. What is fracking?

    The Daily Politics

    Government hopes that fracking for gas could help plug the UK's looming energy gap, and bring down energy prices, were hit when another application to frack was blocked by Lancashire councillors. 

    Ahead of a Daily Politics debate - around 11:20 BST on BBC2 - on the merits of fracking with Green MP Caroline Lucas and Conservative MP Peter Lilley, reporter Adam Fleming has a video guide to what it is all about.

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  13. 'Nervousness and confusion'

    We've written  a full story  from Nicky Morgan's interview on Today. She suggested homophobic remarks could be a sign that a child is at risk of radicalisation - and teachers should keep a look out.

    Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, isn't convinced. She said: 

    Already, in many schools, Prevent (the government's existing anti-extremism programme) is causing significant nervousness and confusion among teachers. If pupil well-being and safety is the aim, the Prevent strategy is felt by many teachers to be counter-productive and wide of the mark. It risks closing down the very opportunities where the classroom can be used to develop democracy and explore human rights. "

  14. Another early start for the Daily Politics

    The Daily Politics

    Jo Coburn will have the latest news from Westminster, including a discussion of the crisis in Greece with shadow chancellor Chris Leslie and Green MP Caroline Lucas. 

    There will also look at fracking with Conservative MP Peter Lilley, and the conflict between residents and music lovers over noise from venues, with this film from reporter Ellie Price (below) in Brighton.Due to Wimbledon coverage, the live political programme is on air early, from 11:00 to 11:30 BST on BBC2.

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  15. Labour reaction to schools plan

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    Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said the government's "coasting" schools plan was an "inadequate response" to the challenge of raising school standards.

    No parent wants their child to be schooled in an inadequate, failing or coasting school. But these plans mean that it is likely that underperforming schools will simply pass from one poor provider to another, without the measures required to turn around sub-standard school leadership and poor classroom teaching."

  16. 'Propaganda war'

    Rachel Sylvester, in the Times,  compares David Cameron's reaction to the Tunisia attacks with Tony Blair's response to the 7 July London bombings.

    Whereas the former Labour prime minister let rip with a raft of draconian new laws designed to prevent future attacks, including the proposed 90-day detention without trial of terrorist suspects, the current Conservative one is embarking on a battle of ideas... Mr Cameron is convinced that it is a propaganda war rather than military campaign that must be won."

  17. Sunni vs Shia

    Victoria Derbyshire

    Sir Christopher Meyer

    Sir Christopher Meyer, former UK ambassador to the US, paints a bleak picture of Iraq and the growing influence of Islamic State there. 

    The invasion of Iraq, he says, led to the disbanding of the Iraqi army which left large numbers of armed, trained and disaffected Sunni Muslims ripe for IS to recruit.

    Former Iraqi President Nouri al-Malaki also ran a Shia-led government which disenfranchised Sunnis even more.

    Sir Christopher says David Cameron uses the argument that moderate Sunni Muslims in Iraq must reject IS's narrative "more in hope than expectation" - and the only way that could happen is if the new Iraqi president is "more even-handed" than the last.

    And as for Britain? 

    We're caught like jam in a sandwich between these warring factions and interests."

  18. Our economics editor on ONS data

    Via Twitter...

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  19. Heroes of the voters

    Victoria Derbyshire

    Adam Afriye

    Adam Afriye says good pay for MPs is fundamental to democracy:

    MPs are backbenchers. We're the heroes of all the voters.You vote us in, therefore we should be standing up for you in parliament, doing things correctly. If, however, the government can offer and lure people to front bench jobs with big extra salaries then that actually makes democracy, to some degree, undermined."

  20. Growth revised up

    The UK economy grew faster than previously estimated in the first three months of the year, official figures have shown. The  Office for National Statistics (ONS)  said the economy grew by 0.4% in the quarter, compared with an earlier estimate of 0.3%.

    George Osborne has welcomed the news.

    It is clear that our plan is laying the foundations for economic security for working people, with the three main sectors of the economy growing over the past year and business investment over 30% higher than at the start of the last parliament. Today’s figures are another reminder that the economic plan we've pursued in Britain these last five years has increased our resilience - and we will take whatever further steps are needed to protect the UK from the new risks we see to our economic security.”