Businessman and Labour peer Lord Noon has died, it has been confirmed.

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The family of Mark Duggan, who was shot dead by police in 2011, have won the right to appeal over a finding that he was lawfully killed.

An inquest jury concluded last year that the marksman who killed him in Tottenham, north London, did not behave unlawfully.

The family is challenging a High Court's ruling that they could not apply for judicial review.

Lord Justice Sales allowed their application for permission to appeal.

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In other news, Labour leadership contender Chuka Umunna is to marry his girlfriend Alice Sullivan. The wedding plans were announced in a notice placed in The Times newspaper. The Streatham MP tweeted:

Seema Malhotra, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, has responded to today's UK economic growth figures, which showed a slow down in the third quarter of 2015, to 0.5%.

She said the chancellor "should not be constraining the ability of government to invest by limiting his options and playing political games with fiscal policy".

The chancellor was “absolutely right” to reform tax credits, which were “very unfair” to people on low incomes, said Boris Johnson. 

The Mayor of London told the BBC: “He is right, I think he is doing a great job and that is the right way forward. The House of Lords is in the wrong."

It's the question you may (or probably not) have been asking yourself this morning....

Statutory Instruments allow the government to make changes to a law without needing to push through a completely new act of Parliament - in other words they are a type of secondary legislation.

They can allow ministers to make technical changes to the law, like altering the level of a fine, but can also sanction broader changes like fleshing out an act with greater detail.

Statutory Instruments can't be amended - only approved or voted down. Their main purpose is to avoid overloading the parliamentary timetable, although the inability to amend them was one of the reasons the Lords battle this week reached such high stakes.

Commenting on last night's tax credits defeat, London Mayor Boris Johnson says the Lords was "wrong" to block the financial measure.

Mr Johnson says George Osborne is "absolutely right" to reform the tax credits system, saying tax credits allow employers to pay their staff low wages. The chancellor is in listening mode and is "doing a great job", he adds.

Boris Johnson has been trying his hand at a bit of tug of war this morning, to launch London Poppy Day. The London mayor characteristically threw himself into the task, on a cold and grey morning on the banks of the River Thames - finding himself taking a tumble on to the grass at one point. Here he is in action:

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Asked about the government's review of "constitutional arrangements" following the defeat, Baroness Meacher says it would presumably entail "reconsidering our powers". She says it was "very courageous" of peers to support her amendment last night "when the threats [from the government] were already there". But she says it passed because peers "are so concerned about the impact of these deep cuts on very vulnerable people".

The UK economy grew by 0.5% between July and September, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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Baroness Meacher, whose amendment calling for the tax credit cuts to be put on hold pending an independent analysis was passed by peers yesterday, says she understands George Osborne will now make transitional arrangements to phase in the changes to make them easier to manage for people.

"But in the end the cuts will happen," the crossbench peer added, saying it was "not the job of the Lords to tell the chancellor what to do".

She said Mr Osborne "has to ameliorate the cuts because he can see the feeling in the country is not with him", adding that Tory MPs "are also panicking" about the policy. She anticipates the government will lose a Commons vote on tax credits on Thursday.