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Conservative MP Philip Davies has called for a Commons debate to mark International Men's Day (on 19 November), Buzzfeed News reporter Emily Ashton reports., external

He made the request to the Backbench Business Committee which sets non-government business on an allocated number of days.

Mr Davies said MPs could discuss men’s shorter life expectancy, the high male suicide rate and domestic violence against men - and his call was backed by 15 male Conservatives as well DUP MPs, 

But the committee rejected his pleas, Emily Ashton writes. Labour MP Jess Philips - the only woman on the committee - told him:

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Former Lords leader Lord Strathclyde, who is to lead a review into Parliament's workings, says his work could be completed before Christmas.

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Norwegian minister Vidar Helgesen says the EU produces "better decisions" with UK at the table.

Here's an exchange between the party's press office and former X Factor winner Steve Brookstein:

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UKIP has accused the Conservative Party of stealing a policy from their 2015 manifesto, external.

It claims the plan to place job advisers in food banks was taken by the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith. 

Suzanne Evans, who wrote UKIP's election manifesto, said she would have preferred to see the policy taken further, as they outlined.

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Asking a so-called private notice (or urgent) question in the Lords, Labour's Baroness Smith of Basildon says the review into Parliament's workings - prompted by the Lords voting the government's tax credit measures on Monday - is "a gross over reaction". She claims the government is "trying to change the rules to ensure it won't lose a vote again".

The shadow Lords leader says Labour is not against a review of the Lords as such - noting the Opposition has called for a constitutional convention. But, she cautions, "any review must be in the public interest and not for short-term party political gain."

Responding, Lords leader Baroness Stowell says Monday was a “significant day” as for the first time the Lords rejected "a financial measure" that had already been approved several times in the Commons.

“That’s never happened before”, she adds, saying a review is therefore necessary. She tells peers it will be “limited and focused” and look at the issues that arose on Monday.

Elected governments need to be confident they can secure their business when it has been passed by the elected Commons.

The prime minister has said "no options are off the table" when it comes to Britain's membership of the European Union. He said in a statement on his official Facebook page, that "I’ve been clear that if we don’t get what we need in our renegotiation, I rule nothing out".

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron has accused David Cameron of being a "bad team player" in his response to the migrant crisis.

Mr Farron said the PM faces a choice; to behave like a leader in a "British fashion" and help out, or to turn his back on the migrants.

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A request by the Scottish government to attend EU steel talks in Brusselshas been rejected by the UK government.

Scottish Business Minister Fergus Ewing had asked to be take part in the talks, which are being attended by his UK counterpart Sajid Javid.

But Mr Javid said it would not be possible to accommodate Mr Ewing's request.

Last week, Tata Steel announced it would be mothballing Scotland's last two major steelworks.

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Briton Karl Andree, who had been threatened with flogging after breaching strict alcohol laws, will be released from Saudi custody within a week and reunited with his family, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has announced.

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A Downing Street spokesman has confirmed that the Prime Minister has asked Sir Martin Narey to carry out a review of children in residential care. 

Sir Martin will be looking at why children end up in care, what treatment they receive and how the state could do more to support them. 

The spokesman said the prime minister wanted to ensure that children in care get the best possible opportunities in life - at the moment they often have very poor outcomes and the prime minister believes it is very important to tackle that.

The spokesman said the review would start straight away and full details would be announced shortly.   

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The exchanges at PMQs, dominated by tax credit cuts, are reviewed by MPs Brandon Lewis and Jon Ashworth, joining Andrew Neil, Jo Coburn and BBC deputy political editor James Landale on the Daily Politics.  

Discussions on the World at One also included matters European and David Cameron's apparent rejection of the so-called "Norwegian model" of a looser, trade-based association with the European Union. UKIP MEP Douglas Carswell said the PM had set up something of a straw man since he and others calling for the UK to leave the EU are not advocating replicating Norway's relationship with the EU, which he says is "awkward". He says the PM's intervention, on the eve of a key meeting in Iceland, shows that he has given up "trying to frame the debate as a choice between out and something better" and is trying to "scare people" to accept EU membership on the current terms. Lib Dem leader Tim Farron says the Norwegian model would be the "least terrible" option should the UK vote to leave the EU but, in his opinion, the UK would be better off in the European Union "irrespective" of the outcome of the PM's negotiations with other leaders 

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More from Lord Strathclyde. He appears to rule out creating new peers as a solution to what he describes as the "semi-crisis" affecting Parliament. The Upper House already has nearly 800 new members and does not need major supplementing. But he suggests he would be open to arguments for reducing the size of the House. He appears to question the legitimacy of a situation where the Lib Dems have more than 100 peers when they only have eight MPs. But Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, also speaking on the World at One, says that his party sought to "democratise and reform" the House of Lords during the last Parliament but was frustrated by the Conservatives and Labour. He says he makes no apology for using "all the mechanisms" open to his party to defend the interests of working people on low incomes. 

Lord Strathclyde says he wants to move fast and potentially complete his review of Lords powers by Christmas. One of the options he will consider is whether to outlaw the ability of the Lords to vote down or significantly amend secondary legislation so that the unelected House does not "rub up against the authority and power of the House of Commons". His job, he says, is to bring "some clarity" to parliamentary conventions that have existed for many years and to ensure the normal "conversations" over legislation between the two Houses do not break down. 

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It's lunchtime, which feels like a good moment to take stock and summarise the political happenings so far today.

• David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn clashed over the government's plans for tax credits, after they were voted down by the House of Lords on Monday.
• The Labour leader used his six questions to ask the PM to spell out the detail of plans to soften the impact of the cuts, but Mr Cameron said he would have to wait until Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement
• Ministers have accused the Lords for overreaching itself when it voted down the government's tax credit plans - and a review into Parliament's working has been announced. Baroness Hayman, a former Lords Speaker has warned it must not "punish" the House of Lords for the defeat
• After PMQs, David Cameron left for Iceland for a summit with Northern European leaders.
• The PM is to challenge Eurosceptic claims the UK could emulate Norway if it left the EU, as he continues to push other leaders to accept his EU reform demands
• Job advisers are set to be placed in food banks across the country, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has told MPs, saying a trial scheme received "very strong feedback"