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Former Labour defence minister Kevan Jones - who resigned over the shadow cabinet reshuffle - has criticised "ill-informed comments" from his party about Britain's Trident nuclear weapons programme.

At the weekend, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's suggested the UK could keep its Trident submarine fleet but without carrying nuclear warheads.

"You can't turn them on and off like a tap when you need them," Mr Jones tells the Commons.

David Cameron's official spokeswoman says the PM's view on Donald Trump is unchanged since he told the House of Commons last month that his comments on Muslims were "divisive, stupid and wrong", but that he did not think he should be banned from the country.

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Labour's shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry makes her debut at the dispatch box since being appointed to the role in the recent reshuffle.

She begins by thanking her government counterpart, Michael Fallon, for his earlier welcome, and tells him "hopefully we will change roles fairly soon" - prompting laughter.

Mr Fallon notes her "ambition", but replies:

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Defence Secretary Michael Fallon tells MPs "good headway" has been made against the so-called Islamic State group - also referred to as Daesh - in Syria and Iraq in recent weeks.

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In the House of Commons, defence questions is under way as ministers field questions from MPs. Defence minister Penny Mordaunt announces that the UK is to give 3,500 first aid kits to Ukraine's armed forces.

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Sugar and trade unions provide the main points of interest in the forthcoming week in Westminster...

In the Lords, a move to set up a special select committee on party funding may tee-up an amendment to the government's Trade Union Bill, which could result in defeat for ministers in a few weeks' time; in the Commons, Thursday's backbench debate on childhood obesity will continue the push for a tax on sugary drinks, as part of a wider anti-obesity strategy, by the wily health committee chair, Sarah Wollaston.

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Sarah Malone, executive vice president, Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, said Donald Trump was "investing hundreds of millions of pounds into the Scottish economy and its greatest assets". 

She said the company, which runs a golf course and hotel in Aberdeen, had attracted "tens of thousands of much needed overseas visitors" to Scotland.

Ahead of the upcoming Donald Trump debate later in the House of Commons, Sarah Malone, executive vice president of Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, said it was "absurd" that "valuable parliamentary time was being wasted debating a matter raised as part of the American Presidential election".

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The UK is set to have a referendum by the end of 2017 on whether or not to remain a member of the European Union.

David Cameron told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a new law reasserting the power of UK Parliament law over the EU could be passed once his reform talks are concluded. 

Read more: Everyone you need to know about the UK's EU referendum

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Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb told The World at One programme that "a tidal wave of cheap steel is changing forever the steel industry".

He says the government has been at the "forefront" of pressing European partners for faster action on steel trade defence.

"We are meeting the asks by the industry, but ultimately it's for the industry itself to create a profitable future," he says. 

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Speaking to The World at One's Martha Kearney, former communities minister Baroness Warsi criticised David Cameron's announcement about plans to deport people who fail to improve their language skills sufficiently.

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Gareth Stace, director UK steel told The World at One programme he thinks the cuts to the steel industry could have been avoided if the governments in Westminster, Cardiff and Brussels "had realised we have a crisis in the industry when we told them years ago".

"It's wrong for ministers to say that there is nothing they can do about the price of steel, because they can," he said.

"Both by putting pressure on the Chinese government in terms of addressing their massive exports but also on the European Commission in Brussels to put them into a higher gear and tackle the dumping onto our market swiftly and robustly."

He blamed the reduction of steel prices on China "dumping onto the market".

He said action was needed to stop the dumping of steel into Europe.

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Labour's shadow business secretary Angela Eagle said the government was "essentially asleep at the wheel" over the steel industry.

"They have not been tough enough with the Chinese... they need to be more proactive," she said.

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David Cameron's initiative on English lessons for Muslim women has come under attack by Conservative peer Baroness Warsi.  

The former faith and communities minister described it as "lazy and sloppy when we start making policies based upon stereotypes which do sadly stigmatise communities".

Speaking to The World at One's Martha Kearney, Warsi criticised government plans to deport people who fail to improve their language skills sufficiently.

She also said it was a mistake to cut funding for English lessons for migrants.    

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Labour MP Karin Smyth welcomes that a debate is taking place as a result of the public petition - but she says she doesn't believe Donald Trump should be banned from entering the UK. Similarly, Conservative MP Kit Malthouse doesn't endorse a ban, but he describes Mr Trump has "a clown" who has said some "foul" and "detestable" things. "He certainly hasn't made many friends in Scotland," he adds.

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Later today MPs will debate a petition calling on US presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be banned from the UK.

Green leader Natalie Bennett, who backs a ban, says the home secretary has the power to block entry to the UK to someone who's presence "is not conducive to the public good" and argues that there's a "reasonable" case to block a visa.

However, David Coburn, UKIP MEP, says he's a great believer in freedom of speech and while some of Mr Trump's comments have been "ridiculous" he shouldn't be barred from coming here.