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Former Conservative Home Secretary Ken Baker says Labour is split on Europe. “You’ve got order, counter order and disorder,” he tells Owen Smith. He says t’s “quite extraordinary” the party has chosen three “unelectable” leaders on the trot: Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband and now Jeremy Corbyn. The Tories did that with William Hague, IDS and Howard, he adds. “That’s just conjecture,” responds Owen Smith.

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New shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith gives his reflections on the meeting. He likens it to “a first date… probing, searching for connection”. Does that say more about your first dates, quips presenter Jo Coburn. Well I have been married for a long time, is his response.

Mr Smith says the new Labour leader was “characteristically open and affable” and was definitely seeking to unite the party. “There were no red lines set by him yesterday,” he adds.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has described last night's meeting of Labour MPs and peers as warm and good natured. "I think the reports are wrong. I think it was quite a warm meeting to be honest," he said.

A Labour aide confirmed immediately after the meeting that Corbyn had faced hostile questions from MPs.

Labour wanted to remain in Europe but would see not give David Cameron a "free hand" on his EU negotiations, he said.

Former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie, one of several Labour front benchers who said they would not serve in a Jeremy Corbyn shadow cabinet, speaks from the backbenches during business questions. His job has gone to left-winger John McDonnell, which hasn't gone down well with all of the party's MPs. Sitting next to Mr Leslie is another ex-shadow cabinet member, Caroline Flint.

Some more from Lord Hall's evidence to the committee hearing on the BBC Annual report.

He says he did not consider resigning after the government transferred the cost of free TV licences for the over-75s to the BBC. "To resign and walk away might make me feel very good, but my job is to get the best deal for the BBC," he told MPs.

Former director general Mark Thompson did threaten to quit when the government made the same proposal in 2010 - a move Lord Hall said he felt was damaging to the BBC.

Thompson's licence fee settlement "was worse than this deal", he argued. "We had to absorb half a billion pounds of costs [in 2010]. So it was... considerably worse."

The new agreement with the government means the BBC will be "cash flat", he argued.

BBC director general Tony Hall has been defending a letterthat was written to the prime minister, calling for the BBC to be protected from cuts.

Dame Judi Dench and Daniel Craig were among the stars who signed the letter - but there have been accusations that the campaign was orchestrated by Danny Cohen, the BBC's director of television.

Appearing in front of the Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Lord Hall admitted Mr Cohen "was involved" in asking people to sign the letter. But, he added:

New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to fight the government's welfare reforms - beginning with proposed cuts to tax credits, which are to be debated by MPs this afternoon.

Labour cites the Institute for Fiscal Studies as saying more than three million families will lose an average of £1,000 a year as a result of the changes. The party also warns the new National Living Wage won't compensate for the loss of income.

In leader Mr Corbyn's words the proposals are "a work penalty" from a government "intent on punishing people... for a crisis they did not cause", while shadow chancellor John McDonnell has branded them a "disgraceful attack" on families. They are calling for a £10-an-hour living wage, action against high rents and support for "stronger trade unions to drive up pay".

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New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has joined PM David Cameron at a service to commemorate the Battle of Britain. In a statement, Mr Corbyn said:

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Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee has a message, external to the Labour Party: get behind Jeremy Corbyn. She warns that former shadow ministers who have "stomped off in a huff and a flounce" and backbenchers who "snark and snipe" are "helpful only to the enemy".

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Journalist Jason Cowley has a rather dire assessment of Labour's future under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. Writing in the Daily Mail, he says, external the new leader should "enjoy his success while he can - because things from here will become a whole lot more difficult. A leader who does not have the support of his MPs is vulnerable."

The TUC Congress has voted to hold a co-ordinated day of national action against the Trade Union Bill. 

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As has been reported, Jeremy Corbyn, when questioned by Labour MPs over his stance on Europe, wouldn't give an assurance that he would campaign to stay in the EU. At today's TUC conference, the union movement will vote on whether they should campaign to leave the EU if David Cameron "negotiates away various workers' rights", such as getting an opt out of the social chapter, reports BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith from a rather wet and blustery Brighton. This would be "astonishing", he adds, as the big unions have long been pro-EU.

The Treasury has responded to today's inflation figures, with a spokesman saying they are "a real boost for working people and family budgets". 

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Catherine West, a fellow Labour MP, prefers to talk about the new leader's "massive mandate" rather than the meeting which she says was "private". She says the 2020 general election is quite a way away and says policy positions will be debated and discussed.

The Hornsey and Wood Green MP also defends Jeremy Corbyn's approach on Europe, saying he wants to "get to the bottom of what a good European Union looks like". But Mr Danczuk cautions against prevarication saying good leadership requires "decisive" decisions.