Carole Walker
Political correspondent

The prime minister is to chair three new cabinet committees on the economy and industrial strategy, exiting the European Union and international trade, and social reform.

The PM’s spokeswoman said Theresa May was underlining the importance of those priorities to the government’s agenda and wanted to ensure there was a focus on these issues from the top of government.

The spokeswoman dismissed suggestions that the committee on Exiting the EU and International Trade was intending to manage the roles of secretaries of state, saying "that's not what it's about".

She said the PM had encouraged a collective government approach at this morning's cabinet meeting.

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Security services should only retain data from telephone calls and emails if it is used to fight serious crime, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

The ECJ's advocate general, Henrik Saugmandsgaard Oe, said there was a "general obligation" that retaining data may be compatible with EU law.

His preliminary ruling is likely to be followed by the full ECJ court.

It comes after British courts ruled the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (Dripa) was illegal.

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Sir Alan Duncan tells MPs that there are no reports of British causalities in Turkey.

The government "condemns unreservedly" the "attempted coup", Sir Alan says.

Foreign Office officials have been "working through the weekend" to support British nationals affected and he advises those wishing to travel to Turkey to monitor local news outlets and check FCO travel advice.

Prime Minister Theresa May spoke to President Erdogan last night where she "underlined there is no place for the military in politics", he says.

Sir Alan says he will visit Ankara tomorrow.

The UK remains "ready to assist the Turkish government to take forward the reforms it has committed itself too and restore order that supports the rule of law".

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Discussing UK trade deals with the EU and the rest of the world, New Zealand high commissioner Sir Lockwood Smith says negotiating trade deals is "complex" and he stresses that the way the UK and the EU negotiates its parting terms is "hugely important for the world" as the world "needs both doing well".

"We want to see this done sensibly," he adds.

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Former justice minister and Brexit campaigner Dominic Raab says the Remain campaign's claims during the EU referendum that Brexit would put "a bomb under the economy" or cause a recession have been "proved wrong".

"The latest manufacturing index data has been very positive and the FTSE 100 and 250 are at higher levels" than in February, when David Cameron returned from the EU with his renegotiation deal, he says.

He says no-one had said there were no "short term risks" from Brexit, but he predicts there are "golden opportunities" ahead. "Manage the risks, seize those opportunities."

Former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke is less optimistic, telling the Daily Politics:

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Foreign Office Minister Sir Alan Duncan is now responding to an urgent question on the situation in Turkey following the failed coup at the weekend.

The overall death toll for the weekend violence has risen to 290, according to the Foreign Ministry. More than 100 of those were participating in the coup.

Turkey has arrested 6,000 people after a failed coup, while President Erdogan says he is ready to reinstate the death penalty "if the people demand it".

This is Sir Alan's first speech from the front bench as a government minister.

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Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said there is no reason why Brexit should "inhibit" UK co-operation in EU military missions in the future.

Mr Fallon said that some missions - such as those against piracy off the Horn of Africa or illegal immigration - were very much in the British national interest.

Speaking to the Commons Defence Committee, he stressed that the UK was not just participating because they wanted to be good Europeans but because they were important to the UK.

"I don't myself see the British interest in these missions diminishing," he added.

When pressed whether the UK would actually be part of these missions, he replied: "There are already, I think, some examples of non-EU members participating in CSDP (Common Security and Defence Policy) missions when it is their national interest to do so."

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Former Tory chancellor Ken Clarke says fewer people tend to join political parties nowadays.

On the composition of the Tory membership, he says it tends to be "elderly and right" of the party's vote in the country, while Labour's is "very young and very left" of the Labour vote in the country.

Contrasting the two membership, he adds "ours are keen on being in government," and says he thinks Theresa May would've won the leadership contest easily had it gone to a final vote of members.

"The Labour Party membership... they're 1960s lefties, they're radical people of protest. It is a policy thing."

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All of the new look Treasury ministerial team have had an outing in today's oral question session.

Former Financial Secretary to the Treasury, David Gauke, has been promoted to Chief Secretary.

Simon Kirby has been appointed City Minister.

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Former shadow minister Caroline Flint calls of a "public country-by-country tax reporting arrangement" to be added to the Finance Bill to amendment to tackle global tax evasion.

This reporting would show the amount of corporation tax payable to each country and the increased transparency would ensure "we get what we deserve".

New Treasury Minister Jane Ellison replies the "key thing is that this happens on a multi-national basis" and tells MPs the idea will be mentioned at the forthcoming G20 finance ministers meeting.

But, she adds, the "UK has a world leading position" on clamping down on tax avoidance.

We mentioned earlier that Labour is to ask the government an urgent question in the Commons on the situation in Turkey. It will be Foreign Office minister Alan Duncan who will reply for the government - so no first Commons outing for Boris Johnson in his new role as foreign secretary.

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Asked if he thinks Jeremy Corbyn could win the leadership again, Hilary Benn says "it is possible". "But Labour Party members need to weigh up the position that we're in",  he adds, saying it's "unsustainable".

The former shadow cabinet minister - who was sacked after he told Mr Corbyn he had lost confidence in his leadership - says he hopes the membership "recognises... we do need a new leader".

He says he's backing Angela Eagle in the contest, as she's got a lot of experience and "great integrity". But he tells the Daily Politics he thinks the other challenger, Owen Smith, has "great qualities" too.

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Discussing Labour splits over Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system, former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn says leader Jeremy Corbyn has always been opposed to nuclear weapons but "I fundamentally disagree" with his position. He says Labour's long-standing official policy is in favour of Trident - and notes that the "vast majority" of Labour MPs voted in favour of renewal yesterday.

On the situation in the Labour Party at the moment, he says: "it's not sustainable, and we need new leadership."

Former Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke says renewing Trident will cost "a very large sum of money" but he says "it's a cost we have to undertake in order to maintain our security", saying it's a "dangerous world".

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Philip Hammond refuses to be drawn on the content or event the date of the Autumn statement.

Under questioning by Conservative MP Helen Whatley, the Chancellor says "the Bank of England is well equipped with the tools to deal with the short term needs of the economy".

The government will be "well placed after batch of economic data in the autumn to provide a longer term response". 

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Chancellor Philip Hammond says Hermann Hauser, the co-founder of ARM who has criticised the company's purchase by Japan's Softbank for £24bn, has not "had the benefit of discussions with the acquiring company".

Mr Hammond says Softbank "volunteered some very, very hard guarantees" about the autonomy of the company, its headquarters in the UK and the commitment to double the number of jobs in the UK, at a recent meeting.

Softbank have made explicit they expect Cambridge, the current site of ARM's headquarters, "will be the global centre for developing the internet of things", he tells MPs.

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SNP MP Ian Blackford points out that research by Deloitte, the consultancy, among 132 chief financial officers of FTSE 350 found they were more pessimistic than after the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Two thirds of chief financial officers expected revenues to fall, while 80% of companies expect to reduce spending as a result of the vote to leave the EU.

Chancellor Philip Hammond replies that "evidence is anecdotal at this early stage" but the initial response "must be monetary", which is why the Bank of England announced it would not be reducing interest rates.

It would be "preferable" for only one candidate to take on Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour Party leadership, ex-shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn says.