This Week

Andrew Neil reviews the political week with Michael Portillo and Labour MP, and former leadership contestant, Liz Kendall. 

They are joined by businessman and entrepreneur Sir David Tang for a look at China and its relationship with the UK. 

The Mail's Quentin Letts (above) reviews the political week in a film, while Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode (below) take a look at politics and films as they talk about movies to match our moods

That's live on BBC1, after Question Time, from 23:35 (later for viewers in Northern Ireland)

A recap of today's political developments:

• The government wins a Commons vote on "English votes for English laws", with MPs backing the introduction of the plans by 312 to 270 votes
• Police would struggle to monitor terror threats if further significant cuts were made to budgets, a chief constable has told the BBC
• George Osborne says the decision to push ahead with tax credit cuts is a "judgement call" he is "comfortable" with despite pressure over the plans
• Sources close to the Iraq Inquiry have indicated chairman Sir John Chilcot may write to David Cameron with a timetable for his report before 3 November
• Home Secretary Theresa May has said the public will not have confidence in the police unless there are more black and ethnic minority officers
• A sugar tax and cutting buy-one-get-one-free deals are part of Public Health England's "key actions" to tackle people's addiction to sugar

The Business Select Committee will hold a special session looking at the steel industry next Tuesday afternoon. MPs will hear evidence from Tata, Celsa Steel, UK Steel and the steel workers union, Community.  The small business minister, Anna Soubry, is also due to attend.

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Leader of the Commons Chris Grayling - the minister who led the government's efforts to get English votes passed - denies today's vote will feed resentment in Scotland.

He says there is mounting resentment in England as powers are devolved to Scotland and Wales.   

Ross Hawkins
Political correspondent

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Police would struggle to monitor terror threats if further significant cuts were made to budgets, a chief constable has told the BBC.

Without funds for neighbourhood policing a "significant footprint of terrorism" could be overlooked, Steve Finnigan of Lancashire Police said.

Greater Manchester Police chief Ian Hopkins said some burglaries may not be responded to immediately in future.

The Home Office is rewriting the Whitehall funding formula for police.

More here.

Iain Watson
Political correspondent

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Sources close to Sir John Chilcot's inquiry into the Iraq War have indicated the inquiry chairman might write to David Cameron with a timetable for his report before 3 November  - though they would give no guidance on the precise date. 

Any correspondence is unlikely to be published on the inquiry's website until the prime minister replies.

But this afternoon in a House of Lords debate former Labour law officer Lord Morris repeated his criticism over the delay in producing the report -pointing out that the Franks inquiry into the Falklands war took six months. "Justice delayed is justice denied", he told peers.

He also said that Chilcot's decision to produce a timetable did not mean he would simultaneously produce a date for publication.

Both the Conservative peer Lord Finkelstein and Lib Dem Lady Williams did not support pressure to speed up the inquiry. The former said "if Sir John is choosing depth over deadline, he is making the right judgment", while the latter said "getting to the truth is more important".

 Former cabinet secretary Lord Butler - who chaired the inquiry into the intelligence behind the Iraq conflict - said of the Chilcot inquiry: "Judge it by its outcome, and be patient until that outcome is delivered."

Figures on senior black and minority ethnic police officers “wrong”, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Helen King has told BBC Radio 4's World at One.

There will now be a new stage added to the usual law-making process at Westminster allowing MPs for English constituencies to vote on issues deemed to only affect England. The Speaker will decide whether a Bill only affects England, and all MPs in the Commons will still have to pass legislation at other stages of the process. Read a full guide.

MPs have approved plans for English votes for English laws by 312 votes to 270.

The afternoon briefing for Westminster correspondents was again told the Prime Minister doesn't back calls for a tax on products high in sugar. 

The Prime Minister's Official spokesman said David Cameron's view "is clear" that he is "keen that we tackle the problem of childhood obesity" but the prime minister does not believe that a so-called sugar tax is the best way to do that.

Asked about recommendations in a Public Health England report calling for restrictions in advertising and more transparent labelling, the spokesman said that the government would be publishing its new strategy in January and we should wait for the official recommendations.

The spokesman was not aware if Mr Cameron had read the report.

The debate has finished and MPs have started a series of votes. The most significant vote, which show whether MPs have passed (or not) the government's proposals for English votes for English laws will be due around 17:00 BST.

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Cardiff University's Women's Officer has launched a petition to ban Germaine Greer from speaking at the university in November.

Rachel Melhuish, the Women's Officer at Cardiff University Student's Union launched the petition because she believes the speaker is "trans-exclusionary"

Greer is booked to give a lecture entitled 'Women and Power: The Lessons of the 20th Century' for the university's Hadyn Ellis Distinguished Lecture.

Here's what writer and feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez thinks:

You can see Germaine Greer on Question Time at 22:35 BST on BBC One (and on this page via the Live video tab)

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The Commons has moved on to the wind-up speeches, with shadow deputy House leader Melanie Onn summing up for Labour. She warns that the government's English votes for English laws plans are "cumbersome and unintelligble" and will "threaten the UK". This is "too important a change to rush through and get wrong", she tells MPs.