The World at One
BBC Radio 4

Paul Mason, once of the BBC's Newsnight, is a Corbyn supporter and says more people have applied to join the Labour Party in the last two weeks than are actually members of the Conservative Party.

The growth in membership can transform the situation on the ground - in workplaces, he says. He says it could become an "unstoppable machine" to win elections.

He says he believes Mr Corbyn is the right leader but adds that if challenger Owen Smith wins the leadership, he will continue to advocate "a social movement" within the Labour Party.

On Mr Corbyn's PMQs performances, Mr Mason says ordinary people ask "who stands up for me?" - unlike the media which are obsessed with the "theatre of PMQs".

Comedians, writers, and politicians are to stage a non-stop reading of the Chilcot Report in its 2.6 million word entirety as part of an Edinburgh show.

House of Commons
Parliament

Conservative MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown tells MPs that snares are an "important tool in wildlife management" which "benefits conservation".

Mr Clifton-Brown, who is a farmer and chair of the shooting and conservation group APPG, says he is upset that Jim Dowd paid "so little attention endangered species" that are preyed on by foxes.

"It is necessary to control foxes if we want important species to survive and thrive", he argues.

There are "no practical and effective replacements for snaring at crucial times of the year" when there is heavy leaf cover, he tells MPs.

Extensive field studies show that "given good practice" less than 1% of foxes caught in snares "were injured or dead as a result of capture".

House of Lords
Parliament

Lib Dem Lord Palmer of Childs Hill says he wishes to provide context he claims has been "missing" from the debate so far. 

He tells peers that the situation of Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank is "not great - certainly not great, but it is better than many other Middle Eastern countries" and that they often receive treatment in Israeli hospitals. 

The Daily Politics

It is one month since Britain voted to leave the EU, with a result that surprised many pollsters, pundits and voters.

Vote Leave's chief executive, Matthew Elliott (above) gives his account of how the referendum was won, and he hears from the body's chair Gisela Stuart, its treasurer Peter Cruddas and pollster Martin Boon.

It follows a Sunday Politics film (below) from Lucy Thomas, who was deputy director of Britain Stronger In, who talked to fellow campaign insiders about how they lost the referendum.

Adam Fleming
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

It’s that time of year again – when the Conservative MP and bibliophile Keith Simpson publishes his recommended reading list for the summer holidays. 

As usual it’s a combination of politics, memoir and history which could keep you occupied for months. 

I’ve picked out some of the highlights in this film from Thursday's Daily Politics. (see above)

And here you can see the full list of titles.

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The World Tonight

Declan McHugh, a former senior Labour Party worker who helped create the current system of electing a leader, says he regrets the changes they made. He told Ritula Shah that the current system was "seriously flawed", allowing those without "the true aims of the Labour movement at heart, to infiltrate the party".

The Daily Politics

Barbara Ntumy, a member of Jeremy Corbyn support group Momentum, has attacked the Labour Party's National Executive's decision to charge £25 to get a vote in the leadership contest as a registered supporters.

She said it was "abhorrent" that working class people had to pay such an amount to get involved in politics.

She refused to condemn reports some unions were offering a cut-price rate.

House of Lords
Parliament

Conservative Lord Cope of Berkeley is talking about his involvement with a music charity which works with Palestinian children, saying: "Music opens hearts." 

However, he relates that some musicians were refused permission to travel with the orchestra, arguing this is symptomatic of the Israeli government's attitude. 

House of Commons
Parliament

MPs now move to the first of today's two Backbench Business debates, on banning the manufacture, sale, possession and use of snares. 

House of Commons
Parliament

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All aspects of David Lindington's brief are being tested during his first appearance as leader of the House. 

Labour's Ann Clywd says she is concerned that Larry, the 10 Downing Street cat, isn't getting the care he needs from the new Prime Minister.

She adds that he is "in a sorry state" after a possible fight, external with Palmerston, the Chief Mouser at the Foreign Office. 

Mr Lindington says he can confirm Theresa May's "good intentions". 

He says he hopes that after the fracas, the two cats have established "a modus vivendi"-  agreement that allows conflicting parties to coexist peacefully. 

House of Lords
Parliament

Non-affiliated peer Lord Warner is opening his debate on the living conditions of Palestinian children in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem. 

He says the situation there is "appalling" and asks if "the government will keep trundling along the path of recent years" in its interactions with the Israeli government. 

He argues that the UK's actions in this area affect the country's "credibility" as an international actor.  

The Daily Politics

Owen Smith supporter Kerry McCarthy has been talking up his chances in the Labour leadership contest, despite polls suggesting he has a mountain to climb to unseat Jeremy Corbyn.

"You cannot assume that the people who voted for him (Corbyn) last time are going to vote for him this time,"  says the Labour MP.

She said she had been disappointed with Mr Corbyn's leadership and what she claims was his "complete lack of concern" about the vote to leave the European Union and accused of him being out of step with the party's voters.

But Corbyn supporter Barbara Ntumy said he could not be blamed for the referendum result - and she accused shadow cabinet members who quit en masse in protest at his leadership of not giving him a fair chance. 

She says there are doubts over whether Owen Smith is as left wing as he is claiming to be.

House of Commons
Parliament

There's some unrest in the House of Commons. It's been a mammoth Business statement - well over an hour at this point - with dozens of MPs trying to secure debates for causes close to their hearts.

The frustration at not being called to speak appears to be getting to Labour veteran Barry Sheerman, whom Speaker John Bercow says is the "human equivalent of a smouldering volcano".

Mr Bercow promises he will get a space but Mr Sheerman will have to address "a slightly underdeveloped sense of others".

"We're saving him up", he says.

When it's his turn to speak, minutes later, Barry Sheerman says he was "smouldering like a volcano because it's about time we have a debate on the barriers on people with autism to leading a full life."

House of Lords
Parliament

Labour spokesman Lord Hunt of Kings Heath asks if the decision to continue the funding formula signals "a dawning realisation of a funding problem facing our schools". 

He adds there are teacher shortages and "schools are already struggling to cope". 

Education Minister Lord Nash tells him it was properly consulted on and was "too important to rush".   

House of Commons
Parliament

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David Lidington announces the new government departments created for Theresa May's new cabinet will have their own question time and select committees to scrutinise their work. 

Under parliamentary rules, secretaries of state and their department ministers have to come before the Commons every few weeks to answer questions on their work.

Select committees, made up of backbenchers chosen by their fellow MPs, also shadow and scrutinise the work of government departments and have the power to call witnesses to give evidence on subjects they are investigating.

Mr Lidington says that the new departments - including the Department of Exiting the European Union, headed by David Davis, and the Department for International Trade, led by Liam Fox - will receive the same treatment as other parts of the "machinery of government". 

House of Lords
Parliament

The former Lords Leader Baroness Stowell of Beeston set up a group last year to look at rationalising the House's day-to-day governance. 

The group's report outlined the need for more accountability, more effectiveness and more transparency.

The proposals include: 

• a newly refocused, although as yet untitled, senior committee, established to take a strategic, high-level approach at the head of the decision-making hierarchy
• in place of the present cluster of domestic committees there would be only two: a services committee, dealing with administration, works, catering, retail and information services, and a finance committee to commission, examine and make recommendations on financial matters to the senior committee.