Summary

  • David Cameron says he will reveal his EU reform demands early next month

  • The SNP holds its annual party conference in Aberdeen

  • England is to get its first "new" grammar school for five decades

  • Collapsed charity Kids Company faces questions from MPs about how it was run

  • Question Time comes from Dover

  1. Thursday recappublished at 23:38

    This Week is coming up on BBC One, or on the Live Coverage tab above. Here's a recap of today's top stories:

    • David Cameron has said he will set out his EU reform demands within weeks
    • SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC that even a "thumping win" at next year's Scottish elections would not be enough to push for a second referendum
    • England is to get its first "new" grammar school for five decades after ministers allowed a grammar school to build an "annexe" in another town
    • Kids Company chairman Alan Yentob and founder Camila Batmanghelidjh appeared before MPs where they denied the charity had been badly run
  2. Question Time: Last commentspublished at 23:36

    Simon Schama says Jeremy Corbyn is "a leader who has not yet figured out what being a leader means". 

    But a man in the audience tells Amber Rudd she is afraid of the threat to the "establishment" posed by Mr Corbyn. "We're not frightened," she replies. 

    Another audience member says the Labour leader is an "honest man saying what he thinks". And that's your lot from Dover.

  3. Question Time: 'No chaos in Labour'published at 23:31

    Louise Haigh

    Louise Haigh says there is no "chaos" in the Labour Party. She says this week's meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party was "feisty" but that it is "a new way of doing politics".

  4. Question Time: Healthy democracy?published at 23:39

    Back to Westminster politics, as the panel are asked whether the "much-reported" chaos in Labour ranks is "simply a sign of a healthy democracy". Amber Rudd says the real danger posed for Labour is to the economy. A woman in the audience attacks the government's tax credit changes, saying she is struggling to get by.

  5. Question Time: School is 'expanding'published at 23:25

    Amber Rudd says the government is sticking to its policy and allowing a "good and outstanding school" to expand. "We are trying to get the balance" between different types of schools, she adds.

  6. Grammar school catch-uppublished at 23:21

    Grammar school

    A reminder why grammar schools are on the agenda: England is to get its first "new" grammar school for five decades after ministers allowed one to build an "annexe" in another town. 

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  7. Question Time: Grammar schoolspublished at 23:18

    Roger Helmer

    Should there be more grammar schools is the next question. 

    "Absolutely", says UKIP's Roger Helmer, whose party is in favour of such a move.

  8. Question Time: 'Biggest threat'published at 23:16

    "A refugee is a refugee, no matter their gender, however old they are," says Labour's Louise Haigh. 

    The government, not immigrants, are the biggest threat to public services, she says.

  9. Question Time: Liddle v Schamapublished at 23:08

    Question Time

    A heated exchange there, as Rod Liddle criticises people's "emotional" response to the migrant situation. Simon Schama says this is "contemptible".

  10. Question Time: 'Difference in status'published at 23:03

    Amber Rudd says it is an "incredibly difficult" question but adds: 

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    There is a difference in status and we must continue to respect the difference in status."

  11. Question Time: Migrant crisispublished at 22:57

    How do we identify genuine refugees while sending economic migrants home, is the next question. It's almost impossible, says Roger Helmer, who says an "extraordinary number" of the people arriving in Europe are young men and most are economic migrants. 

    This is "exactly what was said about Jews" in the 1930s, says historian Simon Schama. 

    You can read a guide to the migrant crisis here.

  12. Question Time: Confidence in Cameronpublished at 22:52

    Amber Rudd does not share Roger Helmer's "cynicsm", saying she is confident Mr Cameron will "come back with a result".

  13. Question Time: 'Clarity' promisedpublished at 22:49

    Amber Rudd

    Conservative Energy Secretary Amber Rudd says there will be "clarity" on the reforms David Cameron has secured by the time the vote comes around. 

    UKIP's Roger Helmer is unconvinced, saying the reforms will be "absolutely marginal and cosmetic".

  14. Question Time: 'Investment at risk'published at 22:43

    Labour's shadow digital minister Louise Haigh says leaving Europe would risk billions of pounds of investment, workers' terms and conditions, and the fight against climate change. 

    Columnist Rod Liddle says he is "tending towards out" but wonders whether the EU may have "dissolved of its own volition" by the time the referendum comes around.

  15. Question Time under waypublished at 22:39

    QuestionTime

    We're up and running in Dover. There's a simple question to start with:

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    Europe: Stay in or opt out?"

  16. 'Significant line'published at 22:32 British Summer Time 15 October 2015

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  17. Coming up on This Weekpublished at 21:35

    Andrew Neil reviews the political week with Alan Johnson and Michael Portillo. They are joined by writer Bea Campbell who will defend Tom Watson over his claims about child sex abuse.

    Anne McElvoyImage source, BBC Sport

    Anne McElvoy - or a few Annes (above) - will round up the week in a film, while commentator Miranda Green joins in the debate. And Simply Red's Mick Hucknall (below) will talk about the week in politics.

    They are live on BBC1 from 23:35, straight after Question Time (or a 00:15 start for viewers in Northern Ireland).

    Mick HucknallImage source, Mick Hucknall
  18. Question Time panelpublished at 20:35

    Watch it on the Live Coverage tab above.

  19. Mandelson at Thatcher eventpublished at 20:05

    Brian Wheeler

    Former Labour minister Lord Mandelson was sat on the front row in the lecture theatre, listening intently - particularly when the conversation turned to Jeremy Corbyn and why the arguments Thatcher thought she had won on the economy are now having to be made again.