Summary

  • Rolling coverage of all the day's political developments and key clips from BBC output

  • Influential committee of MPs warns against a vote on extending UK airstrikes to Syria

  • The government insists its position has not changed amid reports it has ditched plans to seek Commons approval

  • George Osborne sets out more details of the UK's EU demands during visit to Germany

  • He says the UK can have the "best of both worlds", with the benefits of the single market but not the "burdens" of bailing out the eurozone.

Live Reporting

Pippa Simm, Alex Hunt and Izin Akhabau

  1. Watch: Position in Syria 'much more complicated'

    The Daily Politics

    The government will come forward and ask for backing for military action in Syria at some point in the future, the Commons foreign affairs select committee chairman has told the BBC.

    On the day his committee published a report about the legal and military justification for extending air strikes from Iraq into Syria, Crispin Blunt said the Syria position was "much more complicated".

    He was speaking on the Daily Politics with presenter Jo Coburn and fellow Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.

    Crispin Blunt on possible UK military action in Syria

  2. Listen: MP explains why he backs Syria air strikes

    The World at One
    BBC Radio 4

    Conservative MP and former army commando Johnny Mercer says there is "a clear case" for UK military intervention in Syria.

    Conservative MP and former army commando on military intervention in Syria.

  3. Listen: MP 'disappointed' V&A won't take Thatcher wardrobe

    The World at One
    BBC Radio 4

    Tory MP Conor Burns says he's "disappointed" the V&A museum won't display Margaret Thatcher's wardrobe

    Conservative MP Conor Burns says he's "disappointed" at the museum's decision.

  4. Corbyn criticises MP's 'Jewish money' comments

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  5. Action Aid urges UK to take more Syrian refugees

    Action Aid has welcomed the government's announcement that a new ship will be sent to support efforts to rescue refugees from the Mediterranean.

    Mike Noyes, the charity's head of humanitarian response, said the UK had been a leading donor of Syrian humanitarian aid but called on the government to accept more refugees.

    With over 500,000 refugees having arrived in Greece this year, the UK’s pledge to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees is simply not ambitious enough and ignores those who have already arrived in Europe. Action Aid is calling on the UK government to show leadership in the EU and commit to resettling a greater number of refugees.”

  6. Labour: Osborne trip a 'publicity stunt'

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  7. Watch: How stamp duty has affected the housing market

    Ellie Price
    Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

    The Treasury may be losing out on revenue because of the changes to stamp duty the chancellor introduced last year.

    One industry expert told me people buying houses at the top end of the market - properties that cost £1m or more - are being put off by the 12% stamp duty they have to fork out on top. 

    The result is the market is slowing, and the Treasury’s coffers are not quite as full as they might be.

    An academic I spoke to said it could have been a miscalculation by the chancellor. Or maybe political expediency, the chance to show ‘One-Nation Conservativism’ does make the richest shoulder a higher burden, even if it does cost a few quid in tax receipts.

    Stamp duty changes, housing market and house prices

  8. Twitter reaction to Corbyn's CBI absence

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  9. Labour's selection test

    Times' chief political correspondent tweets

  10. Listen: Teenager on Scottish Labour's Trident vote

    BBC 5Live

    16 year old Christopher Rimicans called to end Trident at Scottish Labour Conference

  11. Crispin Blunt: No coherent plan for air strikes

    BBC Radio 4's The World at one

    However, Conservative MP Crispin Blunt who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee says the international coalition carrying out air strikes against IS targets has been "unable to put together a coherent plan".

    We need and owe it to our servicemen not to ask them to put their lives at risk if there isn't the prospect of their service being used effectively."

  12. UK should launch air strikes in Syria, says Tory MP

    BBC Radio 4's The World at One

    Should the UK extend air strikes to Syria? Conservative MP and Defence Committee member Johnny Mercer, who served as an army captain in Afghanistan, thinks so. He argues that it doesn't make any sense to observe the border between Syria and Iraq when IS fighters don't. "It's naive to suggest there is no military role to play in a multi-faceted approach," he says, adding that it would be targeted strikes to try to bring stability to the region.

  13. EU poll 'may be pushed back' if 16 and 17-year olds get vote

    Allegra Stratton
    Newsnight Political Editor

    Ballot box

    The government may be forced to delay the EU referendum until 2017 if it loses a parliamentary vote on the electoral franchise later this month.

    David Cameron has said the in-out vote will take place by the end of 2017 but is thought to prefer a date in 2016.

    But the Electoral Commission told the BBC if 16 and 17 year-olds are given the vote, the poll should be delayed by as much as 12 months to register them.

    The PM has said Parliament should decide the issue of the franchise.

    More here

  14. Corbyn's 'not a Trot' and 'I'm no Tory'

    Daily Politics graphic with a Liam Byrne quote

  15. Corbyn 'should go to CBI conference', says Byrne

    The Daily Politics

    Former Labour minister Liam Byrne has said Jeremy Corbyn MP should have accepted an invitation to speak at the CBI conference. He told the Daily Politics it was a "good idea to engage with business".

    I think it would have been better to go to the CBI personally. But I don't think it's a massive deal. Our economic policy is still a work in progress. There's lots of people in the business community who want to reconnect wealth creation with social justice. We need to embrace them and build a common cause with them."

  16. Farage attacks Osborne 'sycophancy'

    UKIP leader Nigel Farage has accused the UK of "sycophancy" towards Germany as he criticised George Osborne's speech, saying the chancellor made no mention of curbing benefits for migrants, restoring powers to national Parliaments and reducing UK financial contributions to the EU.  

    It is quite apparent that the Conservative government are not just for 'in', they are actually for 'more'. From Osborne calling for deeper single market integration to reform of the EU's treaty framework to strengthening the euro, it sounded more like a speech from an EU Commissioner. As far as I can tell all he actually asked is for Britain to not be forced to bail out the Euro, but for further treaties to be written and for a stronger EU constitution. Who is he actually working for?"

  17. UK policy on Syria unchanged, says Osborne

    Chancellor George Osborne says reports the government dropped plans to hold a vote on UK air strikes in Syria are not true. Speaking to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg in Germany, where he has just addressed business leaders, he said.

    I've seen these stories today and the truth is nothing has changed and there has been no decision in Downing Street as has been reported. Our position is very clear - we take the fight to IS wherever we can - British pilots are doing that above the skies of Iraq."

    Mr Osborne adds that the government would need MPs' approval to extend the action to Syria but ministers wouldn't seek a vote unless they knew the government would win it.

    "At the moment it's not clear there is a majority for it, so as I say we continue to make that argument and when the time comes we'll put the vote to the people in the House of Commons," he adds.

  18. Osborne coy on leadership ambitions

    Asked about his own leadership ambitions, George Osborne tells BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg he's "100% focused on the job in hand" - which is "delivering the best possible deal" for Britain in Europe. Asked what's wrong with being ambitious, he replies: "I'm ambitious for Britain."

    If you look at my job in the next couple of weeks, I’ve got to deliver a spending review so that Britain has investment in our great public services like the NHS; I’ve got to make sure we work with Germany on the best possible deal for the European Union; I’ve got to make sure with my colleagues we have the right national security strategy for our country. You know, that’s what I’m focused on. That is a huge task. I’m extremely honoured that I’ve been asked to undertake it, but it’s all-consuming."

  19. Osborne focused on 'EU essentials'

    George Osborne

    George Osborne is in Germany toset out UK demandsfor a new deal with the EU to protect the UK economy as the eurozone becomes more closely integrated.

    Put to him by BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg that the government's demands have reduced a lot in ambition, the chancellor contends that it is "focused on the essentials for Britain's national interests".

    He says the government wants "the best of both worlds" which, he says, is to stay in the EU but without the "costs and burdens" of the eurozone imposed on the UK; to benefit from free movement of people but preventing migrants coming to Britain to claim benefits;  to co-operate without other EU states but for the House of Commons to be sovereign and for Europe to be "a source of jobs and growth" in Europe.

    This is absolutely consistent with what David Cameron spelt out when he announced the referendum. It is absolute consistent with the manifesto we put to the British people earlier this year and on which we were elected. We have said we are going to go and get the best deal for Britain."