In his letter replying to Sir John Chilcot, Prime Minister David Cameron makes clear he is not happy about the idea of the Iraq Inquiry report not being published until June or July next year. Here's the full text:

More from the letter written by Sir John Chilcot, external to the Prime Minister - it says the final report will contain more than two million words and should be completed in the week of April 18. There will then be "National Security checking" of the report, which he believes means the final report should be available and ready for publication at some time next June or July.  

What is the Chilcot inquiry?

The inquiry was launched to highlight what lessons can be learned from the 2003 Iraq war. 

It has been called the Chilcot inquiry as Sir John Chilcot is leading it. However, it is officially called the Iraq Inquiry.

When did it start?

The Chilcot Inquiry was announced by former prime minister Gordon Brown on 30 July 2009. 

Why is it taking so long to be released?

The Chilcot inquiry was supposed to take a year. However due to the number of witnesses called to be interviewed by the panel, it has taken longer. 

There were also difficulties in obtaining conversations between Tony Blair and George Bush. Although this information has been made available to the inquiry, some details of what George Bush said in the run up to the war will not be made public.

Also, those who are criticised in the report have a right to reply. This means that they must see the results of the inquiry before it is released to the public so they get a chance to respond (It's called the Maxwellisation process after the Bob Maxwell case).

How much has it cost?

The chairman is paid £790 a day and other committee members are paid £565 per day. These rates have not changed since the beginning of the Inquiry.

It is estimated to have cost around £9m.

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Nigel Farage has called a speech earlier this week in London from ex-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott "phenomenal".

Abbott said Europe was making a "catastrophic error" by not controlling its borders.

The UKIP leader said people were too scared of appearing to be "unkind or nasty" to stand up and be tough on immigration.

He added it was too late for the EU to take back control. 

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Nigel Farage has said the Prime Minister has misled the public with his criticism of the "Norway model" of a country existing outside the EU. The UKIP leader says of David Cameron:

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The UK's population will rise by 9.7 million over the next 25 years, according to a new Office for National Statistics projection.

Net migration accounts for 51% of the projected increase over the next 25 years, with natural increase (more births than deaths) accounting for the remaining 49% of growth.  

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Nigel Farage has said he agrees with the reduction of police officers  investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. He said it has been a decade since she went missing and it was "probably the right thing" to reduce the number from 29 to four officers which he adds was a huge number in the first place.

Here's our story on the issue yesterday

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During his LBC phone-in Nigel Farage defended his controversial comments in the general election debates onhealth tourism. He says "normal countries" run checks on those entering the country.He accused the "Notting Hill set"' as being contemptuous towards to views of ordinary people.

David Cameron has been speaking at the start of the Northern Future Forum summit in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik. He stressed the importance of government transparency, one of the themes of the forum, saying it was "not just a good thing for civil liberties, it's actually an economic engine for growth".

BBC Breakfast

This morning, on BBC Breakfast, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt was interviewed about junior doctors' contracts. 

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On tax credits Nigel Farage remarks that "the last thing we should be doing right now is hitting 3 million families in the pocket". He said he agreed with Labour MP Frank Field that the cuts to tax credits shouldn't take place until the raise in the minimum wages is felt. 

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UKIP leader Nigel Farage is taking calls on LBC. The first call is on the House of Lords and their recent rebellion on tax credit cuts. 

Farage says an elected House of Lords would cause political gridlock, similar to the United States. He adds the Lords has lost all credibility and the whole system, including the House of Commons, needs reforming. He uses the number of votes UKIP received and the lack of MPs as an example. 

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Camila Batmanghelidjh, the founder of Kids Company, has previously told the BBC her charity became "a football for the media and the civil servants".

She said some people in government wanted the charity to "disappear" and there had been a "malicious discrediting campaign".  

She told the BBC that Kids Company had been subjected to a "trial by media" based on "rumours and conjectures".

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