Here are the day's main political developments. 

- The Kids Company charity is to close, with founder Camila Batmanghelidjh accusing ministers of failing in their duty of care to vulnerable children

- Ministers are facing questions about the £3m grant given to Kids Company in June after it emerged they over-ruled civil servants and that concerns had been expressed for years about how the charity was run

- Andy Burnham says he would nationalise the UK's railway network as Harriet Harman tells Labour constituency parties to check that the leadership contest is being run properly and Conservative MP Tim Loughton says he has tried, but failed, to register to vote in the contest

- A former brothel keeper has denied accusing ex-prime minister Sir Edward Heath of involvement in child sexual abuse

- David Cameron has demanded that a timetable for the publication of the Chilcot inquiry report on the 2003 Iraq war must be published "pretty soon"

That's the end of our Politics Live coverage for the day - you can follow all developments, as always, on the BBC website's politics section and don't forget that you can watch tonight's Newsnight and news bulletins as always via the Live tab on this page.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse chaired by Lowell Goddard will consider allegations against Sir Edward Heath "should the facts justify it". A spokesperson said that although the allegations about the former prime minister fall within their terms of reference, the panel haven't received any direct information. At least five police forces are investigating allegations of abuse involving the former prime minister. 

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The founder of Kids Company has said the closure of the company is "devastating" and "mind boggling".

Camila Batmanghelidjh told BBC Radio 4's The Report the government had failed in its duty of care towards vulnerable young people.

In an interview to be broadcast on Thursday at 2000 BST she said: "Where is the prime minister of this country, saying what's going to happen to these children? Where are the Tim Loughtons of the world? If Tim Loughton doesn't believe that these kids exist and need this organisation, I'd like to invite him down. Maybe he'd like to sit with me with the lists that we've got, and decide with me what we do with them."

Ms Batmanghelidjh said as far as she knew, she had "acted responsibly" with the charity's finances. 

"I asked for help early enough and I feel the government failed to honour its responsibility to these most vulnerable children. We live in a climate where everything is being airbrushed by this government, so the ugliness of the circumstances these children live in and the abhorrent perversions that they have to endure without having protection doesn't fit into Conservative economically beautiful Britain, so the strategy is to even negate its existence. I was gobsmacked that the media narrative was saying 'do they even have any children?"

She went on to say the charity had had a phone conversation with "a handful of local authority people" and "a member of the Department of Education". 

"They're telling me, go through your list, and only refer what becomes their statutory duty. Even analysing thousands of kids to make a decision now about which ones are at risk is a massive job. Who is paying for that? Not the Cabinet Office who's asked for its money back - that's for sure".

Australian pollster Mark Textor, the business partner of Conservative strategist Lynton Crosby, has been reflecting on voters' behaviour shaped the outcome of the general election.

He is quoted in the Guardian , externalas saying:

“As people like you [political journalists] make voters more aware of the political process, they are adjusting to that knowledge by being more mercenary themselves and tactical in their own voting behaviour".   

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Kids Company boss Camila Batmanghelidjh has confirmed the charity is closing in an exclusive BBC interview,

Speaking to Radio 4's The Report, in an interview to be broadcast at 2000 BST on Thursday, she said it would close its doors at 1900 BST this evening and laid the blame on ministers, civil servants and the media.

"By the time you broadcast, unfortunately the charity's closed and we've had to abandon a lot of children," she says.

"That's it, it's the end of Kids Company and actually a bunch of rumour-mongering civil servants, ill-spirited ministers and the media, on the back of a range of rumours, put the nail in this organisation and shut it".

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The Financial Times says British complaints over a few thousand people in Calais trying to cross its borders, external find few sympathetic ears around Europe. The paper says some EU countries are having to deal with 10 times the number of migrants.

Environment minister Rory Stewart has used a visit to London Zoo to announce a new £5m fund , externalto tackle poaching and the illegal trade in rhino horn, elephant ivory and other wildlife products.

The Scottish political editor at the Sunday Herald, Tom Gordon, reports that there could be a second independence referendum if Scotland is "dragged out of the EU against its will".

Labour say they have rejected Tory MP Tim Loughton's attempt to register to take part in the party's leadership contest and insisted there is a "robust vetting process" in place to prevent infiltration. A spokesman tweeted: