Tom Bateman
Political correspondent

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Asked whether PM Theresa May had apologised to US Secretary of State John Kerry after he appeared to bang his head on the door of 10 Downing Street earlier, the prime minister’s official spokeswoman laughed off the suggestion.

"I don’t think the prime minister was stood behind the door at the time. I’m not sure it was for the prime minister to apologise and actually, I think they had a good meeting," the spokeswoman said.

Tom Bateman
Political correspondent

Prime Minister Theresa May maintains the goal of bringing immigration down to "sustainable levels" which means the "tens of thousands", Downing Street has said.

It comes after Home Secretary Amber Rudd declined to be drawn on whether the government was still committed to reducing annual net migration to below 100,000.

The prime minister's official spokeswoman said:

Pressed over why Ms Rudd declined to repeat the tens of thousands figure, the prime minister's spokeswoman stressed there was no change in the government's position. She said that Ms Rudd was using "an approach and a language" that had been used repeatedly by the Home Office in the past.

Asked whether Mrs May stood by the Tory manifesto pledge to reduce migration to the tens of thousands by 2020, her spokeswoman said:

Giles Dilnot
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

The campaign to keep Britain in the EU warned of dire economic consequences if the UK left and hoped it would persuade voters to remain.

But Project Fear - as it was dubbed by the Leave campaign - failed to convince the voters. 

Daily Politics reporter Giles Dilnot looked at the impact of the decision to leave the EU has had on UK business and the economy with Dr Gerard Lyons, of Economists for Brexit, and financial analyst Louise Cooper.  

How will cartoonists capture the new political stars promoted in Theresa May's reshuffle?

At the Boris Johnson and John Kerry press conference a little earlier, a US journalist reminded the UK foreign secretary of previous barbed comments he has dished out in the direction of Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton.

The foreign secretary was asked if he would he take these comments back or whether he intended them "as some sort of indicator of the type of diplomacy you will practise?".

"There is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said," Mr Johnson said. He claimed some of these things were "misconstrued" or taken out of context, and added: "It would really take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned."

John Kerry was asked if he could be confident that Mr Johnson would "represent the interests of anyone but himself?". Mr Kerry said he was confident Mr Johnson and the UK government were "committed" to "all the endeavours that will make this world safer" and they would continue to work together.

He confirmed against that neither he nor President Obama favoured the UK leading the EU but "the people of Britain voted - this is a democracy".

John Kerry is asked is he has ever come across somebody quite like Boris Johnson.

Listing many of the things he has done in his career, including senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state, Mr Kerry says: "I have met everybody in the world like Boris Johnson, or not. I don't know what you mean."

He says he sees the foreign secretary as "a very smart and capable man".

"I think we got through that one all right!" says Mr Johnson.

The BBC's James Landale asks Boris Johnson: "Can I give you this opportunity to apologise to world leaders you may or may not have been rude to over the last 12 months?"

The foreign secretary responds: "We could spend an awful lot of time going over lots of stuff that I've written over the last 30 years... but there are some serious issues before us."

Asked if he will confirm Barack Obama's claim, made before the EU referendum, that the UK would be at "the back of the queue" for a trade deal with the US in the event of Brexit, John Kerry says: "Obviously there are complicated questions that are posed by Brexit."

However, he says he thinks all parties in the UK and EU have been "making responsible statements". The UK cannot sign new trade deals while it is still a member of the EU, "so there's a certain time period here, no matter what".

US President Barack Obama's administration made it clear that it was opposed to the UK leaving the EU. Now that a Leave vote has led to Scotland's first minister pursuing the idea of a second referendum on Scottish independence, John Kerry appears to be signalling US disapproval of that too.

"The United States of America depends on a strong United Kingdom. We mean united," he says.

He adds that, as the UK and the EU will be negotiating the UK's departure, the US is "rooting for" the "smoothest possible transition" and a "collaborative UK-EU relationship".

The US secretary of state says he believes that the UK will continue "to lead as strongly as ever" in organisations including Nato and the G20.

John Kerry thanks Boris Johnson for a "generous welcome" and congratulates him on his appointment as foreign secretary.

He says he had a "very frank" conversation with UK Prime Minister Theresa May earlier and will be seeing Mr Johnson again in Washington later this week.

"We're off to a fast start," Mr Kerry says.

The US secretary of state also wishes to emphasise the "special relationship" and the "precious bonds" with the UK.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is holding a press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry in the grand surroundings of the Locarno Room in the Foreign Office.

It follows what Mr Johnson calls a "very productive bilateral meeting" in which Syria and Yemen were among the subjects discussed.

"The special relationship... remains strong and vital," Mr Johnson says.

Looking at future UK trade deals with Ken Clarke, who backed Remain in the EU referendum and Leave-supporting Dominic Raab.

They were joined by New Zealand's High Commissioner in London, Sir Lockwood Smith, who said "the world needs both the UK and EU doing well".

They looked at how Britain will build trade deals when it leaves the European Union, and makes new arrangements with other nations.

Adam Fleming
Reporter, Daily Politics

The Daily Politics team has just had lunch in Victoria Tower Gardens, in the shadow of Parliament. By coincidence the body that maintains it and the nine other Royal Parks has just published its annual report. , external

It says there is a backlog of repairs on the estate worth £52m and that their grant from the government has fallen by 40% since 2010.

The organisation manages 5,000 acres - including Regents Park, Richmond Park and Greenwich Park - and even does the gardening in Downing Street. All of that costs £34.9m a year, more than half of which comes from events, sponsorship, filming permits and donations.

The organisation itself is about to go through a big change: moving from a sort-of government department to a charitable body that has more control over its own affairs.

At a rough guess about 200 people were picnicking with us in Victoria Gardens today, but the Royal Parks team tidied up our rubbish impressively quickly as this picture proves 

BBC Radio Solent

Conservative MP Oliver Letwin - who was axed from the cabinet by Theresa May - has told the BBC he won't stand for Parliament again in 2020.

The West Dorset MP served as minister for government policy and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in David Cameron's government, meaning he was in overall charge of the Cabinet Office.

He was also closely involved in policy formulation for the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition from 2010.

"I've had a good run," Mr Letwin told the BBC Radio's Breakfast in Dorset, insisting it was always his plan to retire in 2020 even before losing his cabinet post.

"My wife and I have both had very busy working lives and look forward to retiring and doing things our own way," he said, adding that he will be 64 at the next general election and he thinks it will be time "to move on".

The Daily Politics

MPs overwhelmingly backed the renewal of the UK's Trident submarines. Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn heard from former Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke and former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn what the vote means and how it highlights divisions in the Labour Party.