Sir John Chilcot says long-awaited Iraq Inquiry report should be ready by July 2016
David Cameron says he is disappointed at timing and asks if it can be brought forward
Mr Cameron is in Iceland for talks set to focus on EU membership
Ex-Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg launching a report backing the UK's EU membership
In other political news... it's the Dog of the Year show for MPs and peers
Asked about Britain's EU reform discussion, David Cameron says it is "going well" and the pace will "quicken".
But these are big changes - necessary for Britain and the rest of the EU, he says.
He's "confident" he can secure the changes he wants, the PM adds.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg asks the PM about the Iraq Inquiry - and whether the publication date announced today is acceptable.
David Cameron replies: "I am immensely frustrated by the slowness and the amount of time the report is taking" - not just on his own behalf but for the families of all those who lost loved ones in the war.
He says the government is not responsible for setting the timetable, but he pledges to move "as quickly as I possibly can" once he receives a copy of the report.
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Sir Menzies Campbell told the World at One the Iraq Inquiry should have had a "fixed timetable", as was the case with the Leveson inquiry into press ethics.
Asked about the likelihood of the report's contents being leaked before publication - expected in June or July 2016 - Sir Menzies says "pretty strong".
Noting that the report is to be about two million words, he says:
Quote MessageThe longer the time for consideration the greater likelihood for leaks."
The former Lib Dem leader adds:
Quote MessageWe can no longer afford financially or politically to have inquiries of this kind."
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Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, who was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee which questioned Sir John Chilcot over delays to his report, says he "sidestepped" most questions "and we certainly didn't get as far as the committee would have wanted".
He says the inquiry was originally set up by Labour to "kick the issue into the long grass before the 2010 general election".
Quote MessageSir John wasn't given clear and unequivocal terms of reference. He pretty well had to invent his own. And of course it should have been an inquiry which had a judge as chairman and a full legal team able to lead and to cross-examine evidence."
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Estonia's prime minister Taavi Royvas says the UK has yet to focus on EU talks detail
Norwegian PM warns Britain against emulating her country's EU deal
Speaker John Bercow says there is a "real sense of anger and frustration across the whole House" at delays to the Iraq Inquiry report
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Today programme
Young people will "continue to die unnecessarily" in jail unless ministers act on recommendations in a report into self-inflicted deaths, its author says.
Lord Harris said he was "frustrated" by the lack of action after his review of self-inflicted deaths among 18-24-year-olds, submitted over six months ago.
The report, external said rehabilitation was failing and recommended more help for young inmates, including from family.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said the report was being considered.
Andrew Neil crunches the numbers in the population statistics and projections released on Thursday by the Office for National Statistics.
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Shiv Malik, a Guardian journalist, has told the Daily Politics that younger generations are not being catered for with issues in housing, childcare and schools. He added policies were "strangling any nascent economic benefit almost from the very start".
There's been a bit of excitement in the office as the winning pooches have made their rather noisy way through to the Daily Politics studio for the segment looking at the Westminster Dog of the Year contest.
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Lord Bilimoria says if they had the Chilcot report before the vote on whether to intervene in Syria in 2013, Parliament could have made an informed decision. He added "lessons needed to be learnt quickly".
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Peter Oborne, a journalist, told the Daily Politics Sir John Chilcot has been a "dithering Whitehall administrator".
Oborne has conducted his own unofficial inquiry for a Radio 4 special into the Iraq war. He told the Daily Politics "it is a big problem" that Blair sat on the Chilcot report for 6 months. Adding, "the British public was knowingly mislead by the Prime Minister of the day" and that all 27 foreign office legal advisers said the war was illegal.
Eleanor Garnier
Political Correspondent
The prime minister's official spokesman has said he doesn't recognise allegations by the former Children's Minister, Tim Loughton, that concerns raised about Kids Company in 2012 were over-ruled by Downing Street.
Mr Loughton told the BBC this morning (see entries beginning at 08:15) that he cautioned against giving a grant to Kids Company in 2012 but that "it went over our head in the Department for Education, and as was characteristic of Camila Batmanghelidj, she wrote a Dear David letter, and went straight to Number 10 and there was always this sub-plot of there's going to be terrible publicity unless you stump up the money; it's not going to reflect well on the government."
In response the spokesman said "we don't recognise those claims" adding that "ministers in appropriate departments responsible took those decisions based on the evidence in front of them" and he said "there were always checks in place".
The spokesman said the vulnerable children were "front and centre" of the decisions made over funding by "successive governments" adding that "the government ministers who approved this funding thought it was the right thing to do to support the work they were doing with children experiencing a number of problems".
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Parliamentary correspondent
Commons Speaker, John Bercow, has criticised the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war following the announcement that its report won't be published until either June or July next year.
Mr Bercow told MPs that Sir John Chilcot, "should be aware that there is a very real sense of anger and frustration across the whole House at what seems a substantial disservice that has been done".
The Speaker made his comments after a number of MPs called for a government statement about the timetable Sir John Chilcot set out in a letter to the Prime Minister this morning.
The SNP's Foreign Affairs spokesman, Alex Salmond, said MPs should be given the chance to, "explore the reasons for the delay and publication of the inquiry and, of course, the possible legal consequences that might follow to certain individuals if that inquiry allocates responsibility for the illegal conflict."
The Leader of the Commons, Chris Grayling, said the government shared the "frustration about the amount of time this has taken". He said it was in no-one's interests that the inquiry should have taken so long but stressed that the government didn't have control of the timetable.
A former Conservative minister, David Davis, said there had been "many rumours" that the delay had been caused by Whitehall. He echoed calls for a government statement and said, "frankly, this is an insult and a compounding of the grief of the many families who have lost loved ones in that war".
The Speaker told MPs that if a parliamentary committee had carried out the inquiry, "it would not have been possible for it to do its work more slowly even if it had made a Herculean effort to do so".
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Bernard Jenkin, a Conservative MP has called Sir John Chilcot "heroic" for resisting pressure from witnesses and the public and should not be personally criticised. He added he thought the "system failed" armed men and women. He added:
Quote MessageIt is out of order for the former Prime Minister Tony Blair to be issuing his pre-buttal denials, in advance of the publication of the report. He has seen parts of the report... he is already responding in public to a report that hasn't been published. This is not right."
Bernard Jenkin, Conservative MP and chair of Public Adminstration Committee
Text of statement from ex-UK PM's office
Quote MessageTony Blair has always wanted the inquiry to report as soon as it properly can and he looks forward to responding to the Inquiry’s report. Mr Blair also wants to make it clear that the timetable of the inquiry and the length of time it will have taken to report is not the result either of issues over the correspondence between him as prime minister and President Bush; or due to the Maxwellisation process. As for the first, the correspondence has been with the inquiry from the beginning. The only question was over how much of the correspondence could be published in the final report, not about its content being used to inform the report. In any event that question was resolved between the Cabinet Office and the inquiry in May 2014. Secondly, Tony Blair received the deliberations of the inquiry under the Maxwell process in full only in January 2015, four years after the inquiry finished taking evidence. He responded by August. This is not therefore the reason for the delay as Sir John Chilcot has made clear. It is our understanding that other witnesses also received information very late in the process, so any suggestion that witnesses have been the cause of the delay is categorically incorrect and this has again been stated clearly and publicly by Sir John.”
