Those night-owls among you may have seen Brian May and Alastair Campbell on the This Week sofa last night. For those of you in bed at the time, you missed a lively exchange of views between the Queen guitarist and animal rights activist and former Conservative MP Michael Portillo - a regular pundit on the show - over fox hunting. Mr Portillo said he favoured repealing the ban in place since 2005 because, while he deplored animal cruelty, he believed the pastime, like bullfighting in Spain, was part of a "national culture" and should not be lightly "extinguished". Mr May responded by saying that witch-hunting was part of English culture for many centuries and "humans caused more trouble on the planet than any other animal". The government has promised a free vote on hunting before 2020. Although Mr Cameron was from a "hunting family", Mr May said he was in a "sticky spot" over the issue and he did not believe the PM currently had the votes to overturn the ban, adding that the issue was "above politics". 

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It has since emerged that Camila Batmanghelidjh the chief executive of children's charity Kids Company, whose government funding has been withheld over concerns about its ability to manage itself, is to step down.

Kids Company had been told by government officials it would not get £3m of funding unless its leader Camila Batmanghelidjh was replaced.

But Ms Batmanghelidjh told BBC Radio 4's Today programme she had always planned to step down in her 20th year in 2016.

She denied the charity had been mismanaged.

She told the BBC complaints over mismanagement were a "red herring" aimed at distracting from the failure of government to properly look after vulnerable children. 

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A high-profile charity has been told it will not get more public funding unless its celebrated chief executive, Camila Batmanghelidjh, is replaced.

A collaboration between BBC Newsnight and BuzzFeed revealed that officials are withholding £3m from Kids Company.

The Cabinet Office has concerns about the charity's ability to run itself.

Ms Batmanghelidjh said: "At this stage, I'm not at liberty to comment. I have to safeguard the provision for the children and the staff."

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Chris Grayling has again rejected suggestions that Scottish MPs will be "prohibited" from voting on issues affecting their constituents under his plan to give English MPs an effective veto over English-only bills. 

The Commons leader told Radio 4's Today that, at the moment, Scottish MPs can vote on health and education issues affecting his Surrey constituency but not on similar issues in their own seats because these matters were devolved and such an anomaly needed to be addressed.

 The change, he said, would ensure the explicit "consent" of English MPs was needed during a bill's passage.

 Asked why the government was moving so quickly to try and change the existing Commons rules - it has tabled a vote for 15 July - he said Westminster has been preoccupied with the so-called West Lothian question for 20 years. 

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