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David Cameron's appearance before the Liaison Committee at 1600 GMT will be his first since the Conservatives' general election victory. His inquisitors are all chairs of Commons select committees, headed by Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, the chair of the Treasury select committee who also chairs the liaison committee. Tony Blair was the first prime minister to regularly face questioning from this select group of MPs. The format is designed to encourage more detailed and illuminating exchanges than during Prime Minister's Questions although there has been criticism that the MPs try to cover too many issues, and not to put too fine a point on it, too many are allowed to attend. David Cameron is expected to appear three times each parliamentary year and - like his predecessors - is always well briefed for the occasion. Mr Tyrie has said the PM can expect "robust" questions on the chosen subjects of Syria and climate change and that MPs are hoping for a "thorough explanation" of Downing Street's interventions in recent months. 

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SNP MP Mhairi Black has been speaking on the Mumsnet website as part of a Q&A on women's pensions - although she also touched on other topics such as attitudes in the Commons, biscuits, and of course Scottish independence. 

In a debate on women's pension inequality she led last week, Ms Black criticised the "empty" Conservative benches and said the government "also refused to even vote on the issue".

Moving on to what her favourite "biscuit" was - a rite of passage for politicians doing Mumsnet webchats - she chose the Tunnocks caramel wafer, although whether it is actually classified as a biscuit would be another debate altogether.

She told readers she had started saving for her own pension and encouraged other young people to do the same, saying "money put aside in their working life is not money lost". 

Ms Black denied being a "career politician" describing them as people who needed to "please the masses rather than having genuine debate". 

When she first joined the House of Commons, Ms Black - who is its youngest member - said "people were especially patronising to me". 

Although she added she's "glad to say that that attitude has subsided".

She was asked a number of questions on Scottish independence which she defended saying she believed "the best way for Scotland to get the policies it votes for is only possible through independence."

Read the full conversation here, external.

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Labour MP Toby Perkins is to put forward a bill to Parliament on Wednesday calling for a national consultation on England having its own official anthem. He told Jo Coburn why he thinks its necessary, on Tuesday's Daily Politics. But Olympic medallist Kriss Akabusi said that, for him, God Save The Queen "has got a really special place in my heart", while Times columnist Melanie Phillips warned it was "part of a drive to build up English nationalism".

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Ask someone English what their national anthem is and they will say God Save the Queen - but that's actually the British national anthem. The Scottish and Welsh have their own anthems, but officially England does not So, should it? And if so, what should it be? Reporter Giles Dilnot looked at what makes a good anthem, in a film for Tuesday's Daily Politics.  

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A row has been rumbling over the composition of the A-level politics syllabus after government proposals to remove feminism from the course.

Labour MP Rupa Huq, who backs the inclusion of feminism in the syllabus, told the Daily Politics she didn't want a "gender-blind curriculum".

But Times columnist Melanie Phillips dismissed it as “ideological pressure group politics”, and said: "When I hear the words 'gender-blind curriculum' I really want to reach for the sick bag."

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A Tory MP has called on the House of Lords to press the case for more affordable homes to be built in English cities with high house prices - if the government doesn't act first. 

Nicola Blackwood said other cities apart from London should be allowed to build two affordable homes for every high-value one sold.

At present, the government's housing reforms say that the two-for-one rule should apply in the capital only.

But Ms Blackwood said that zero affordable homes had been built in her Oxford constituency  in 2013/14 and only 20 in 2014/15. 

She said house prices there were 16 times the earnings of the average worker.

Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, Heidi Alexander, has urged the government to "get back around the negotiating table", branding the handling of the junior doctors' strike as "utterly shambolic".  

Ms Alexander said: "Anyone who has an operation cancelled today or an outpatient appointment delayed should be under no illusion that the person to blame for all of this is Jeremy Hunt."

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Jeremy Hunt, health secretary, said the strikes were "very disappointing" as it was a "wholly unnecessary dispute".

He said the "right thing to do" would be to go back to negotiation, adding that the "door was open". 

He said he takes "responsibility for everything that happens in the NHS" but he added he had to take action when there is research showing higher mortality rates at the weekend. He said he couldn't "ignore" those studies.

Asked whether the new contract would risk patient safety he replied "why would I want to do that?" He denied it would create more risks. 

Mr Hunt said they had "solved the problem" around NHS fines for overworked junior doctors, but there were still some disputes over pay still to resolve, he said he would go back to the conciliation service ACAS "any day".

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has urged junior doctors to get back to the negotiating table instead of continuing with "these very unnecessary strikes".

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Alex Salmond has said it would be "disrespectful" for the referendum on the UK's EU membership to be held within six weeks of this May's devolved elections in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and local elections across England. A date in June has been tipped as a possible option depending on whether David Cameron concludes his negotiations with other EU leaders. But the former SNP leader, who is now the party's foreign affairs spokesman, said that if the referendum was held too close to these elections on 5 May, the "two campaign periods would intersect, with all the complications that would arise". In response, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said it would be up to MPs to decide the date as the legislation needed to authorise the poll would have to be approved by the Commons. 

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Direct marketing companies will have to display their telephone numbers under government plans to tackle the "scourge of nuisance calls". Cold callers will be required to provide valid Calling Line Identification to make it easier for people to refuse calls or trace their identity. At the moment, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport says, one in five direct marketing calls reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office as a nuisance call do not provide valid caller ID. Baroness Neville-Rolfe, the minister for data protection, said a consultation, external would be launched with aim of introducing the measure in the Spring. 

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Shadow housing minister John Healey says he would expect Labour's review of the future of Trident to report before its party conference in the autumn, given that this is the forum for major policy-making decisions. He says the review - to be co-chaired by new shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry and Ken Livingstone - should cover Britain's security and its place in the world, including its nuclear capability. As a supporter of nuclear disarmament but not a unilateralist, he says he welcomes the exercise which he says is particularly important given the "escalating cost" of Trident renewal.