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Scottish Secretary David Mundell has said new income tax powers for Holyrood should come into force in 2017 - a year earlier than expected. The Scotland Bill will devolve control over rates and bands of income tax to the Scottish Parliament.

Mr Mundell said the UK government was keen to see the new powers transferred by April 2017. The Scottish government said it would not support a deal that left Scotland worse off.

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The Financial Times, external highlights Theresa May's "tough line on 'mass' immigration" and also says that business leaders have urged David Cameron to speed up the planned referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. "Business says delay leaves ‘in’ campaign open to political attack," the FT reports.

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The European Court of Justice says the government is entitled to put additional restrictions on EU migrants seeking to claim child benefit and child tax credits in the UK. An opinion from the court this morning says that while the rules constitute indirect discrimination, "it is justified by the necessity of protecting the host member state's public finances."

The rules require EU migrants to show they have the "right to reside" in the UK before they can claim the benefits. The European Commission argued such a rule constituted "direct discrimination" as the law didn't apply to UK citizens. Today's opinion from the advocate general is not a full judgement - that'll appear in the coming months - but such opinions are usually followed by the court.

The Times

The Times, external also leads with a preview of the home secretary's speech.

The Guardian

The Guardian's, external conference coverage leads with Theresa May's message that "mass migration threatens UK cohesion". It looks ahead to the home secretary's speech to Conservatives later.

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"David Cameron's tax credit cuts attacked by Boris Johnson," says the Telegraph, external. It says the PM is "under pressure over tax credit cuts after Jeremy Hunt claimed they would make British people work harder".

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Parents in England who refuse to pay a penalty after their children play truant will have their child benefit docked, the prime minister has said. A civil penalty of up to £120 would be claimed through child benefit if the fine is not paid after 28 days. Currently, 40% of fines go unpaid.

David Cameron told BBC Breakfast it was about making sure children get "the great start in life that they need". Teaching unions said docking child benefit could end up hurting children.

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More on the European Court of Justice ruling on votes for prisoners. Convicted murderer Thierry Delvigne claimed a ban on him voting in elections in France violated the European Charter of Fundamental Rights. But the court ruled his ban was "proportionate" to the offence.

If the court had ruled the other way it could have outlawed all bans on prisoner voting, including the UK's. The UK's ban on prisoners' rights to vote looks set to continue following the ruling.

The European Court of Justice rules that an EU member state can maintain an indefinite ban on prisoners voting. The ruling applies to a case in France but could have implications for the UK's ban on prisoners voting.

David Cameron has previously said that the idea of prisoner voting makes him "physically sick". In a previous statement, the European Court of Justice's advocate general said that national governments have a right to set their election rules provided they do not "prescribe general, indefinite and automatic deprivation of the right to vote".

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In his Today interview earlier, David Cameron promised a "crusading Conservative programme of social reform".

Political commentator Mary Ann Sieghart says she was a bit suspicious of the PM singling out prison reform and reform of the care system as "that's the first I've heard of these things from him". She says every year he says something new, adding that she doesn't get the sense he has a "single-minded view of what he wants to do to change the country".

Lord Bell, who advised Margaret Thatcher, says David Cameron has done very well in office. He says he's very dependent on his chancellor, George Osborne and adds that the two men "are very Conservative, they actually are Thatcherites - George, more than David". He adds:

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The Mirror, external says that George Osborne "boasted how he had protected NHS spending" in his speech but accuses the chancellor of making "secret cuts" to public health. Labour councillor Peter Morton writes:

The Sun

A quick round-up of the papers' take on events at the Conservative conference. "Boris Johnson to lay into George Osborne in conference speech," says the Sun, external. The London mayor - who the paper claims is more popular with voters than the chancellor - will accuse George Osborne of "stealing all his ideas".

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Also addressing the Conservative crowd in Manchester today will be Home Secretary Theresa May.

As we mentioned earlier, she is to say that high levels of immigration to the UK make building a cohesive society impossible.

She will use her speech to say Britain does not need immigration in the hundreds of thousands every year.

Net migration into the UK currently stands at a record high.

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