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"I don't think we should turn our backs" said Labour's Yvette Cooper on why she thought Britain should accept more unaccompanied children as refugees.

The former shadow home secretary was talking to Martha Kearney on the day she has been granted an urgent question in the House of Commons.

Former Conservative Party chairman Lord Cecil Parkinson has died after a long battle with cancer, his family has announced.

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The political day so far ...

• The chair of the campaign group Britain Stronger In Europe, Stuart Rose, has said leaving the EU market would be a "huge risk"
• "Out" campaigners are highlighting research by the independent think tank Civitas, which says in export terms, the single market has been "a massive disappointment, and not far short of a disaster" for the UK
• UK charities could face legal controls unless they clean up their fundraising, a committee of MPs has warned, external
• MPs are to hear urgent questions this afternoon about Google's back tax and calls for the UK to take in thousands of child refugees who are on their own in Europe
• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told ITV Labour is making progress as a party; that "everybody's getting along just fine" and that he is doing his best to "present politics in a human way" 
• And the BBC is considering asking people over 75 (who do not need to pay the TV licence fee) to make a voluntary contribution

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The Labour MP and former cabinet minister Yvette Cooper has added her voice to those calling for Britain to take in thousands of unaccompanied refugee children.

Kent County Council says it is having to place vulnerable British children outside the county because it is struggling to help all the unaccompanied child refugees arriving from overseas.

Ms Cooper told the World at One no one could expect Kent "to do all of it" and that it was for the whole country "to do our bit to help children".

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Will Moy, director of the independent fact-checking organisaton Full Fact, has been speaking about the possible financial costs that might follow a British exit from the EU.

He questioned the CBI's estimate of £3,000 per British household, saying "they cannot be sure about that...that is the top estimate". He added that the business organisation had included in its calculation studies in which the scenario was of Britain leaving both the EU and the Common Market - and it was possible to leave one without leaving the other.

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A report on why Labour lost the last election has suggested that the negative views of the party among swing voters are "deep and powerful". It suggests voters believe Labour is "in denial about its 'appalling' record on the economy" and that its former leader Ed Miliband was "weak and bumbling". 

The findings, based on focus groups, suggest voters believe Labour are "'nice' but in thrall to the undeserving" and are now "down-trodden and eager to please".

It says Scottish voters see Labour as "indistinguishable from the Conservatives - just less competent" and that Labour must now "atone for its past, especially on the economy", "be competent,especially on the economy" and "show it takes Scotland seriously." 

It found that many English voters struggled to remember anything much about the campaign.

Read the full report

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in Her appearance on Daily Politics earlier Rachel Reeves also added that leader Jeremy Corbyn shouldn't be underestimated, noting that he's drawn new members to the party since becoming leader. He now needs to "capture that" and translate it on the doorstep, she adds. If he does that, Labour can win again, she says.

Ms Reeves also tells the programme the report by Dame Margaret Beckett into why Labour lost the 2015 election wasn't a whitewash.

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Rachel Reeves, a former shadow cabinet minister who has been away on maternity leave, is asked what it's like being back: "All change," she replies, and laughs.

She stands by her decision to step down from the shadow cabinet, saying she's enjoying her work on the Treasury Committee. Discussing the state of the party, she adds:

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"It was a cheap publicity stunt," says Conservative MP Tim Loughton of Jeremy Corbyn's visit to the Calais migrant camps. It was "completely irresponsible" to say that Britain should take in lots more people.

Labour MP Rachel Reeves thinks it wasn't a stunt, saying it was right for him as Leader of the Opposition to go and assess the situation for himself.

She appeals for a cross-party consensus on the issue.

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Asked whether asylum seekers in the Calais camps should be allowed in to Britain, Labour MP Rachel Reeves says the priority should be taking 3,000 unaccompanied children from Europe in to the UK, warning that delays put them at risk.

Should the UK follow Germany's lead and take in hundreds of thousands of migrants, as Jeremy Corbyn has suggested? "We have got to be very careful about public reaction but also about what we can absorb as a country," she replies, calling for the UK to take its "fair share".

Conservative MP Tim Loughton says there's a "humanitarian case" for the UK to take in more child migrants but warns that "it's fraught with problems".

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Labour MP Rachel Reeves says the industry needs a chance to get its house in order. "Let's give them the opportunity to do that" but if they don't act then the government should step in with regulation, she adds.

"This has got to be the last chance saloon for charities," adds Conservative MP Tim Loughton, who says "aggressive fundraising" should play no part in their work.

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Speaking about his committee's report on charities' fundraising activities, Conservative Bernard Jenkin says it would be a "terrible indictment" of charity trustees if they could not be trusted to run their own fundraising without a state regulator. He adds:

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Conservative MP Tim Loughton says he wants the referendum "as late as possible". The vote is "a once in a generation opportunity" to get some closure on the issue, and rushing it could raise questions of legitimacy and result in people "crying foul", he says.

The PM needs to go the "eleventh hour" to get the best possible deal, he adds.

But Labour's Rachel Reeves says that an earlier vote is better, as it will give business and the country certainty. That's in the national interest, she tells the programme.