A Labour MP who backed air strikes on Syria has seen his Friday surgery for constituents called off over plans for an anti-war protest.

Stephen Doughty, MP for Cardiff South and Penarth, said managers of Moorland Community Centre in Splott cancelled it amid concerns for other visitors.

The MP said he had offered to meet protesters away from the venue, but they failed to reply.

Mr Doughty said the cancellation was a shame for people who needed to see him

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Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to join Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at a rally opposing the UK government's Trade Union Bill.

About 2,000 people are expected to attend the rally at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

It has been organised by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).

The government wants to impose a minimum 50% turnout in strike ballots, which it believes is necessary to stop "endless" threats of industrial action.

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The Civil Service has paid Jeremy Corbyn more than £1,000 for him to lecture Foreign Office staff.

David Cameron and foreign secretary Philip Hammond have said Labour under Corbyn poses a threat to national security.

But the body that trains civil servants decided the Foreign Office would benefit from his experience.

Records show Corbyn was being paid to give some of the lectures while he was campaigning to become Labour's leader.

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SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, has called for the UK to consider banning Donald Trump over his comments about muslims.

Her spokeswoman said: "The First Minister has made her views on Donald Trump quite clear. 

"She agrees...that there are laws around people who make certain comments being allowed in and he should be considered in the same way. 

"The Home Secretary should consider the issue." 

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Ministers are meeting on Thursday to decide on the future expansion of Heathrow airport.

The Cabinet sub-committee tasked with considering the government's response is due to meet late this afternoon.

Yet a decision on whether to build a new runway at either Heathrow or Gatwick could still be delayed for at least six months.

Ministers are thought to want more "confidence building" about the environmental impact of a new runway.

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In an interview with Progress, external Angela Eagle has said she believes Ed Miliband should not have immediately resigned after Labour lost the general election.

She said "Ed should have stayed on and given us a little bit of time to recover". She said she thought the party needed "a sober, sombre reflection" rather than being "plunged straight into a leadership election".

Speaking about the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader she said his victory was the membership crying out for "someone to stand up and tell us what our values are".

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Former Conservative minister David Willetts has said it is "taking a hell of a long time" for a decision to be made on airport expansion, and said "we've got to get on with it".

His preference is for another runway to be built at Heathrow.  

Asked why David Cameron made his "no third Heathrow runway" pledge in 2009, Mr Willetts told the Daily Politics "I don't know what was going through his mind", but added that there was "a lot of pressure" from west Londoners at the time.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has repeated his support for the Stop the War coalition.

There have been calls for Mr Corbyn to distance himself from the organisation and not attend a fundraising event tomorrow, following comments the anti-war group made after the Paris attacks.

Asked if he would continue to support Stop the War, Mr Corbyn said: "I'm quite prepared to speak out on issues of peace and justice with all the civil society organisations that have always spoken out on the issues of peace and justice and that's exactly what I'll be doing."

He was also asked to respond to the Information Commissioner being asked to look into a possible data protection breach by Momentum - the campaigning group set up by Jeremy Corbyn's supporters.

He said "I don't run the organisation" but "I ran my election campaign as leader in a totally open way and we made very sure we abided by all regulations".

He added: "I support data protection law." 

The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn says flood defences need to be "funded correctly".

On a visit to see flood damage in Cockermouth in Cumbria Mr Corbyn said "we obviously need better funded defences, they did help...but didn't stop it altogether. So cuts to flood programmes by government are not helpful."

He also criticised cuts to the Fire Service and said it needed to be given a statutory duty to deal with floods and rescues - "they do anyway but they need the funds to develop it".

The Labour leader also said politicians needed to "work out a policy" for helping people in flood risk areas who couldn't afford insurance premiums.

"There has to be some public support through government, possibly funded through local government, we need to work out a policy on this... so everyone gets access to insurance... otherwise towns like this will continue to suffer" and it will "end up in with a decline in the economy".

Shadow Defence Secretary Maria Eagle said there is a "gap" between what the government says and what it does when it comes to supporting the armed services. She also said the delivery of promised support was "worringly patchy".

Speaking about the publication of the annual Armed Forces Covenant report she said:

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David Cameron is in Poland for talks on benefit reform as part of his ongoing EU renegotiation tour.

Daily Politics' guest of the day David Willetts spoke to Andrew Neil about the changes the UK is seeking to its relationship with the bloc.

The Conservative peer and former minister said the UK was asking for reforms "that will make Europe as a whole function better".

He said he believed it was "overall in Britain's interests to be a part of the EU".  

Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the London Assembly said the government needed to be "honest" about airport expansion. 

He said "half the extra passengers" who will travel through Heathrow would not spend money outside of the "duty free shop". 

He has called for a "halt to any further expansion" and said aviation should be scaled back rather than expanding it.

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Former Conservative minister David Willetts has something of a reputation for being an intellectual - so much so that he was given the nickname "two brains".

On his election, Mr Willett's successor as MP for Havant said he had twice the amount of hair but half the brains as his predecessor.

But just how clever is Mr Willetts? Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn put him to the test with a short quiz.  

The Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the government needs to answer key questions before his party can support a decision on where airport expansion should take place.

Mr Corbyn said there were four questions for the Government to answer on capacity, effects on climate change, environment, and noise - he said "those are the questions that have to be answered before any decision can be made".

Asked what Labour's position was on the expansion of Heathrow Mr Corbyn said: "The position is we put these questions on how we go ahead with airport expansion on the basis of capacity across the South East, on the basis of the need for a hub airport, and the effect on neighbouring communities, the environment  and noise.

"Those answers have to be be given before any decision will be taken about where the expansion should take place."

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Winston Churchill went from Conservative to Liberal and back to Conservative again. So why do some politicians go on political journeys during their careers, when others don't change their views? Daily Politics reporter Ellie Price takes a look in a film for the Daily Politics.  

The SNP's Peter Grant says he is "not at all convinced" by the TTIP proposals.

My question is, "why is it needed?", he says. 

The Glenrothes MP raises concerns about the "secrecy" of some proposals and suggests the government has not been wholly transparent.

Minister Anna Soubry dismisses such claims and shouting out, "it's on the internet". 

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