Labour leadership challenger Owen Smith has accused Jeremy Corbyn of threatening to sack those who work for him, after the Labour leader appeared to suggest that all party MPs will face re-selection.

"It didn't seem very friendly or kind or gentle to me," he told the BBC.

“It’s not much of an employer that says, you know, work for me and work harder or I’m going to sack you all – which is effectively what he’s doing today,” he said.

“I don’t think he feels he can bring the party back together, that’s why he’s talking about re-selections because I think he is reconciled, I think he is fatalistic about the prospect of the party splitting apart and being destroyed.

“He just wants to control the Labour Party.”

Mr Corbyn said earlier there would be a "full and open selection process" to choose every would-be Labour MP, if new constituency boundaries are in place before the next general election.

But sources close to Mr Corbyn have denied that he was calling for a mandatory re-selection process, but was restating party policy and had intended to stress that all constituency parties had the power to start a re-selection process.

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The Labour MP for Wallasey, Angela Eagle, who had challenged Jeremy Corbyn's leadership before stepping aside for Owen Smith, has postponed her constituency surgeries following police advice, her spokesman said.

Yesterday the Wallasey Constituency Labour Party was suspended while the party investigates allegations of bullying and intimidation.

SNP MP Patrick Grady briefly fluffed his lines in a Westminster Hall debate.

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New Chancellor Philip Hammond has been asked to clear up the government's economic case for expanding the UK's airport capacity.

Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Commons Treasury Committee, first tabled a number of questions in November 2015 to Mr Hammond's predecessor, George Osborne.

But he says he has yet to receive answers and urges the new chancellor to "avoid his predecessor's obfuscation and delay" and says, as a former transport secretary, Mr Hammond is "well placed" to take the lead on the issue.

Mr Tyrie, who has written to Mr Hammond about the need to provide answers to his questions, said: "The analytical work required to answer them should already have been done. Without it, the evidence in support of any decision will be demonstrably incomplete. 

"Controversy and further dispute would be a likely consequence. This decision matters. It matters all the more with Brexit."

Theresa May is pictured leaving Downing Street to begin her journey to Paris for talks with French President Francois Hollande.

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Labour's shadow development secretary Kate Osamor says Labour is "reaching out" to voters and MPs will reunite after the leadership election.

Ms Osamor tells Mark Mardell "wounds" would remain in the party, whoever won the leadership contest, and would need to be mended.

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Campaigners have lodged a complaint with police over alleged incitement to racial and religious hatred by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage and Leave.EU during the referendum campaign.

The complaint, backed by almost 40,000 names on an online petition, was handed in to police in north London on Wednesday and given a crime reference number.

Campaign organiser Zack Newman launched the petition, external in response to a controversial poster used in the referendum campaign. It was launched by Mr Farage in the final days of the referendum and depicted a column of migrants walking through the European countryside under the slogan "breaking point".

The complaint asks police to investigate whether comments made by Mr Farage and others in the Leave.EU camp were "systematically and purposefully designed to incite and stir up fear and intolerance of immigrants in order to procure votes".

A UKIP spokesman said: "If a generation of 'clicktivists' want to wallow in their own outrage, that is their right. Fortunately, fair-minded people will see through their attempts to silence free speech."

The BBC's Norman Smith said he got a sense during Jeremy Corbyn's campaign launch earlier that "this is a man almost preparing for the aftermath" of the leadership race - and someone who thinks he will win.

Norman asked the Labour leader after his speech whether he thought he would win.

"Absolutely," Mr Corbyn said, "We've had a good start to the campaign."

He added that he was "quite happy to reach out" to Labour MPs.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been asked again about his policy on reselection of Labour MPs.

“It’s not up to me to decide who is selected or not, and as I pointed out in the launch. The selections will probably take place in 2018 when the boundary changes come in, which obviously means incumbent MPs who represent any part of a constituency are automatically included in the short list for selection," he said.

“If an election comes sooner than that and clearly there has to be a selection process, but that’s the National Executive… that will decide on that, not me.

“It’s not up to me to decide who’s the candidate or the MP in every constituency, or indeed any constituency other than Islington North (his own constituency).

"But I hope there will be a process in the party that strengthens our democracy, how that comes about is a matter for members and the party.”

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Business group the CBI has set out "five principles that should underpin the UK’s negotiations with the EU to ensure the most successful future for the UK economy".

They are:

1. Retaining the ease of UK-EU trade that businesses gain from the Single Market
2. Balancing regulatory equivalence with the EU with flexibility and influence over the domestic environment
3. Ensuring the UK’s migration system allows companies to access the people and skills they need, while recognising public concerns
4. Developing a clear strategy for international trade and economic agreements
5. Protecting the economic and social benefits of EU funded projects

CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn said:

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Labour MP Kerry McCarthy, who is supporting Owen Smith for leader, and Barbara Ntumy from Momentum, an organisation supporting Jeremy Corbyn, debate the Labour leadership.Labour Party members will be concentrating on a leadership campaign for the second successive summer with Jeremy Corbyn challenged by a former member of his shadow cabinet.The Labour leader officially launched his campaign on Thursday morning.  

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In recent years Scotland has tightened regulations, external on snares beyond the situation in England and Wales. 

Snares must have safety stops fitted and users are required to now attend a training course and register for a personal identification number. 

This ID number is required to be displayed on all snares which are set.

Northern Ireland have added additional restrictions on the use of snares, but are holding a consultation before implementing the new restrictions. 

The Welsh government has published The Code of Best Practice on the Use of Snares in Fox Control , externalwhich aimed “to deliver higher animal welfare standards, increased efficiency in terms of fox control, and ensure that fewer non-target species are being caught”.

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Matthew Elliott is asked about the claims of extra money for the NHS made in the referendum campaign that would follow the UK leaving the EU.The Vote Leave chief executive was questioned on the £350m-a-week claim that appeared on a bus, and he said: "We hoped the government would use that money for the NHS."He spoke to Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn - and guests Steve Richards and Fraser Nelson - about when the victory speech was written, and the polling for the campaign.