Following the exchanges at Prime Minister's Questions earlier, Labour has written to David Cameron seeking further answers on government funding for flood protection schemes and, in particular, the decision not to proceed with a scheme to bolster a stretch of the River Aire in Yorkshire in 2010. The letter, co-signed by Jeremy Corbyn and shadow environment secretary Kerry McCarthy, says it is "simply disingenuous" of the prime minister to "claim that spending cuts implemented by your government have not had an impact on our flood defences".

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Donald Trump has threatened to withhold £700m of investment in Scotland if he is banned from entering the UK.

MPs will debate later this month whether the US presidential hopeful should be refused entry.

It follows the billionaire property tycoon calling for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.

More than half a million people backed a petition calling on Mr Trump to be barred for his comments, triggering a debate in the Commons.

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Former Labour cabinet minister Lord Mandelson has written a lengthy essay for Newsweek about the reshuffle and Labour's current travails, concluding that the party is "incapable", as it stands now, of winning the next election. 

And Lord Mandelson, who was instrumental in the rise of New Labour in the 1990s, suggests that a battle for the soul, as well as day-to-day control, of the Labour Party could be in the offing. 

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In her first major broadcast interview since being appointed shadow defence secretary, Emily Thornberry has promised a "truly open review" over her party's stance on the future of the UK's nuclear weapons system. She told British Forces Broadcasting Services (BFBS) that her opposition to Trident was "quite clear" but "there is nothing wrong with asking these questions and trying to find a collective solution". She also defended her credentials for the position.

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It's been a fast-moving day so here's a short recap of the fallout from Labour's shadow cabinet reshuffle, which was concluded in the early hours of the morning. 

• Maria Eagle was moved from shadow defence secretary to shadow culture secretary
• Emily Thornberry, an opponent of Trident renewal, became the new shadow defence secretary
• Pat McFadden was sacked as shadow Europe minister and replaced by Pat Glass. Mr McFadden says he was sacked over comments he made about terrorism and national security but the party leadership say it was because of "disloyalty" and "incompetence"

Following these hirings and firings, a handful of shadow ministers resigned their posts in protest:

• Jonathan Reynolds, shadow rail minister, resigned in protest over the sacking of Pat McFadden
• Stephen Doughty resigned live on BBC Daily Politics (moments before PMQs begun) in protest at the treatment of Mr McFadden
• Kevan Jones, shadow defence minister, resigned (just after PMQs finished) in protest at Maria Eagle being moved from the defence portfolio

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During Prime Minister's Questions, along with the expected jokes from David Cameron about Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle, there were exchanges between the pair on flooding. Mr Corbyn attacked the prime minister over cancelled flood defences, to which he replied that flood resilience had improved and spending on protection had increased.

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Shadow Defence Minister Rachael Maskell has defended Jeremy Corbyn's leadership following Labour's reshuffle.

The Labour MP for York Central said "change is a healthy thing in the party" and "sometimes new faces coming forward with fresh ideas it can only be good".

And she said Mr Corbyn was putting strong democracy "back at the heart of the Labour Party".

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Ken Livingstone says Labour's election prospects have improved since this week's shadow cabinet reshuffle.  

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Kevan Jones - who resigned as a shadow defence minister in protest at the way his boss, Maria Eagle was demoted for her views on Trident - has criticised aides to the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.  Speaking on the News Channel, Mr Jones said Jeremy Corbyn was an "honest, principled individual" but "he has a group of people around him now who seem to have spent the last three weeks running colleagues down and dominating the news agenda on our internal matters rather than attacking the Tories".

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Friends of the shadow defence secretary have described questions over donations she received from a law firm as a “desperate smear”.

They said Leigh Day represents soldiers against the Ministry of Defence among many others, including people suffering from Thalidomide who the prime minister said needed to be helped. (See entry at 4.37 for details of the row)

Stephen Doughty, who resigned from his position as shadow foreign affairs minister earlier, drew attention to a less-than-flattering tweet from his party colleague Paul Flynn.

But later relations seemed to have thawed, with Mr Doughty replying to constituents urging him to have it out with Mr Flynn:

BBC political producer Sean Clare says one shadow cabinet minister told him team Corbyn was "the weak vs. the weak - they don't have the power to get what their way, but we don't have the power to resist".

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Shadow energy secretary Lisa Nandy quashed rumours that she was approached for the job of shadow defence secretary in Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle.

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Former shadow minister Jonathan Reynolds, who resigned after Pat McFadden was sacked in Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle, told Martha Kearney earlier that the Labour Party frontbench was in danger of becoming "too London-centric".

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Writing in Prospect magazine, external, political strategist John McTernan has urged the Labour Party to learn lessons from history and particularly from the legacy of its former prime minister Clement Attlee.

"Attlee was, in fact, the ultimate red Tory. He not only worked with the Tories, he actually formed a government with them. In conjunction with the great Ernie Bevin, he deposed George Lansbury, the only Labour leader in history to have looked at all like Jeremy Corbyn. The great successes of the 1945 government, the NHS and the welfare state, were drawn from a progressive centrist tradition. The great failures, including nationalization, were from the traditional left."

Environment Agency chairman Sir Philip Dilley, who faced criticism for holidaying in Barbados during the recent floods, has told a committee of MPs: "Could I have come back earlier? By one or two days. In hindsight, do I wish I had? Yes I do."

But he said he had been "in regular contact" with colleagues before his return.

Emily Thornberry, Labour's new shadow defence secretary, has been criticised by the prime minister for accepting money from Leigh Day, a law firm, which has been referred to an industry tribunal.

David Cameron said there were "questions to answer" over the law firm, which has been referred to a disciplinary tribunal by the Solicitors Regulation Authority over allegations of misconduct.

Criticising Ms Thornberry at Prime Minister's Questions, he said: "We have lost a shadow secretary for defence who believed in strong defence, who believed in our nuclear deterrent and instead we've got someone who takes funds from Leigh Day" saying it left Labour with "serious questions to answer".

Ms Thornberry received three payments from the firm between 2012 and 2013 totalling to £48,125 as payment in kind for the "services of a legal research assistant" during her time as shadow attorney general, according to the register of members' interests. 

She received similar donations from other firms of solicitors including Thompsons and Browne Jacobson. She told the Evening Standard, external it was a "non-story" and Leigh Day was a "great firm".

Leigh Day was representing Iraqi citizens who claimed they had been abused or unlawfully detained by British forces during the Iraq war.   

The firm is accused by the Al-Sweady inquiry, set up to investigate the matter, of overlooking the significance of a key document which cast doubt on the claims. 

It also faces accusations of touting for clients and entering into a prohibited referral fee agreement. 

The firm denies the allegations and has called the decision to refer it to the regulator "highly political" and "premature".

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Interviewed earlier on the World at One, Labour MP Kevan Jones, who has quit as shadow armed forces minister, described Jeremy Corbyn's appointment of Emily Thornberry to the role of shadow defence secretary as a "mistake".

Speaking to presenter Martha Kearney, he said there had been "nothing straightforward or honest" about the way the reshuffle had been carried out.