Asked about plans to cut tax credits, David Cameron insists the government is helping families, including though job creation, expanded childcare and increases in the personal income tax allowance.

But he says he also has to ensure the country lives within its means which requires "difficult decisions" - saying money needs to be saved in the welfare system.

The government is aiming for higher pay, lower taxes and more childcare, the PM explains, adding: "I think this is the right approach."

Put to him that nearly half of English councils have no children placed with their adoptive families earlier, David Cameron says "that is why we're doing this". If those 68 councils can do what the others are doing, and if each council adopts four more kids a year "we'd be able to double", to 5,000, the number of children adopted ever year.

Prime Minister David Cameron wants to increase dramatically the number of children currently in care who move in with their adoptive families before the required legal work is completed.

The PM tells ITV's This Morning it's "such an important thing to do". He says adoption numbers are up 72% but he adds that "thousands" more children are "waiting for a loving home".

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Monday's guests of the day are Conservative MP Suella Fernandes and Labour's Keir Starmer who are joining Jo Coburn from 12:00 to 13:00. 

They will be joined by TUC's Frances O'Grady in a section on unions, while Joe Twyman from the pollsters YouGov will help them look at the so-called snooping powers. 

And they will be asking if there should there be an International Men's Day with guests Labour MP Jess Phillips and Conservative MP Philip Davies.

And they will round off by looking at Tory MP James Cleverley's frank admissions when he spoke to John Piennar on BBC Radio 5 Live. 

You can listen to the clip about what he got up to in his past below.

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Judges will need training to be allowed to authorise intrusive warrants under surveillance laws, warns an expert.

Lib Dem peer Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said "only a handful" had expertise in national security issues.

Wednesday's Investigatory Powers Bill, external would let police see websites people have visited but not the specific pages they have viewed without a warrant.

The BBC's Gordon Corera said the plan may be resisted in the House of Lords.

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The government has said it wants to increase dramatically the number of children currently in care who move in with their adoptive families before the required legal work is completed.

Karen Goodman from the British Association of Social Workers says the adoption process shouldn't be rushed.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage was taken aback when a 12-year-old boy called his LBC radio show last night. The boy said he was sad about Jeremy Corbyn's comments about commemorating Remembrance Day.

The young boy, who admitted he was up past his bedtime, told Mr Farage he was home schooled. He said he wanted to be an entrepreneur as "it helps the economy, and it's only hard work that equals success".

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Senior Labour figures at Westminster have sought to play down the significance of a vote by the Scottish party to scrap Trident. 

At its annual conference the Scottish Labour party overwhelmingly supported a motion not to renew Trident - a position backed by the party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

However this morning one shadow minister said the vote mattered "very little" and was only "a snap shot" of opinion. The Scottish Party, it was said, had "no formal role" in shaping policy on Trident - which was a reserved issue - and would be decided by the National Policy Forum.

It's also understood that Labour's review of defence policy is unlikely to be concluded before Parliament votes on Trident renewal - possibly early next year.

This means Labour's official position would still be to support Trident in the Commons vote - even though Mr Corbyn is opposed to such a move. Sources say any change of policy on Trident would take up to two years to complete. 

Yesterday Mr Corbyn's spokesman welcomed the Scottish vote as "a clear sign that Labour's democracy has opened up." He said the decison would "feed into the wider UK Labour debate and review of defence policy".

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Labour's only Scottish MP, Ian Murray, says the debate over Trident is very healthy.

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Robert Dale on the life of the MP's right-hand person in a report for BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour.  

A cross-party group has written an open letter calling for Chancellor George Osborne to increase spending on mental health in his spending review. 

The letter has been signed by 200 public figures including nine former health secretaries, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, Louis Theroux and Miranda Hart.

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The UK's voluntary living wage, as promoted by the Living Wage Foundation campaign group, is to be increased by 40p an hour.

The new rate will rise to £8.25 per hour, from its current £7.85.

For those living in London, the rate will rise by slightly less - 25p - to £9.40 an hour, the city's Mayor, Boris Johnson, announced.

More than 2,000 businesses, with almost 70,000 workers, are signed up to the scheme.

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The Press Gazette has launched a petition asking that The Freedom of Information Act is not weakened. More than 1,450 people have signed the petition in the two weeks since it was launched, including Paul McNamara, an investigative journalist at Channel 4 and Marc Reeves, editor of the Birmingham Mail.

The government has set up a commission to review FOI, amid concerns it is being misused as a "research tool".

Almost six million workers in the UK are paid less than the living wage, a study suggests.

The data showed a "worrying trend" of part-time, female and young workers being most likely to earn below the figure, researchers found.

The living wage, promoted by the Living Wage Foundation, external, is currently £7.85 an hour and £9.15 in London. It is not compulsory for employers to pay it.

The government said it was "determined to move to a higher wage economy".

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Lindsey German, from Stop the War Coalition, says Mr Corbyn was noting that it's more than 100 years since World War One and "many people" - including herself - "don't see what the value of that war was", but want to commemorate the dead.

She adds: "If we are going to remember war let's remember the people who opposed it, let's remember the people who put all sorts of work into it who are unsung heroes, if you like and not just see it as a justification for future wars,"