Summary

  • Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the UK

  • He has held talks in Downing Street with UK PM David Cameron

  • Mr Modi addressed MPs and peers in the UK Parliament

  1. Round-up of Thursday's politicspublished at 23:30

    A recap of the main political stories of the day:

    • Reaching a deal on David Cameron's EU renegotiation goals will be "very, very tough", European Council President Donald Tusk has said
    • David Cameron has said he and India's PM Narendra Modi have "big ambitions" for UK-Indian relations. The two men held a joint press conference during day one of Mr Modi's visit to the UK. The Indian PM also made a speech to MPs and peers in Parliament
    • Sports minister Tracey Crouch has apologised for suggesting some of her constituents struggling to make ends meet should give up things such as subscription TV
    • 182 MPs who left their jobs at the election claimed a total of £705,000 to wind up their offices, according to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
    • The government has refused to confirm or deny reports that Chancellor George Osborne wants the Treasury to take charge of Trident renewal
    • Regional official Tim Roache has been elected to become the new general secretary of the GMB union
    • Votes in the in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union will be counted overnight, the Electoral Commission has announced
    • Labour has accused David Cameron of being hypocritical by writing to his local council in Oxfordshire to complain about proposed cuts.  
    • The UK's tax authority is to close 137 local offices and replace them with 13 regional centres, raising fears over job losses
    • Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has chaired the first meeting of Labour's new panel of economic advisers
    • Cuts to adult mental health services in England have started damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report suggests

  2. Lucy Powell on junior doctors's contractspublished at 23:26 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  3. NHS 'on brink of crisis', says shadow education secretarypublished at 23:25 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  4. A flavour of the panel's views on the NHSpublished at 23:21 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

    Business Secretary Sajid Javid tells the Question Time audience:

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    UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall says:

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  5. Question Time panel discusses the NHSpublished at 23:15 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  6. Minister: Corbyn is respectfulpublished at 23:10 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  7. Shadow minister defends Corbyn's 'right to open up Trident debate'published at 23:07 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  8. UKIP deputy leader criticises Corbyn's Trident stancepublished at 23:07 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  9. The Sun managing editor: Labour MPs 'didn't think it was fine'published at 23:03 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  10. Labour: Sun, not Corbyn, was disrespectfulpublished at 23:01 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  11. Corbyn 'like a nice teacher', says writer and campaigner Paris Leespublished at 23:00 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  12. Second question is on Jeremy Corbynpublished at 22:56 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  13. UKIP on David Cameron's EU reform objectivespublished at 22:54 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  14. EU needs reform, says business secretarypublished at 22:53 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  15. Labour: EU membership 'makes UK more powerful'published at 22:45 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  16. Business secretary on EU referendumpublished at 22:45 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  17. Panel questioned over EU referendumpublished at 22:43 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  18. Tonight's Question Time under waypublished at 22:42 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2015

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  19. Thursday recappublished at 18:00

    A look at what's been happening on the political scene today:

    • David Cameron has said he and India's PM Narendra Modi have "big ambitions" for UK-Indian relations. The two men held a joint press conference during day one of Mr Modi's visit to the UK. The Indian PM also made a speech to MPs and peers in Parliament
    • 182 MPs who left their jobs at the election claimed a total of £705,000 to wind up their offices, according to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority
    • The government has refused to confirm or deny reports that Chancellor George Osborne wants the Treasury to take charge of Trident renewal
    • Votes in the in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union will be counted overnight, the Electoral Commission has announced
    • Labour has accused David Cameron of being hypocritical by writing to his local council in Oxfordshire to complain about proposed cuts.  
    • The UK's tax authority is to close 137 local offices and replace them with 13 regional centres, raising fears over job losses
    • Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has chaired the first meeting of Labour's new panel of economic advisers
    • Cuts to adult mental health services in England have started damaging the quality of care given to patients, a report suggests
  20. Tusk's first public comments on PM letterpublished at 17:30

    David Cameron and Donald TuskImage source, AP

    Donald Tusk's comments are his first since David Cameron wrote to him setting out his EU reform aims. Talks and sounding out other countries will start next week.

    Follow the developing story here.