BBC Sunday Politics

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner is being quizzed on the BBC's Sunday Politics show. 

She is asked whether she will vote for Jeremy Corbyn in a Labour leadership contest. 

She says she is against the contest, but will listen to the membership in the contest.

She does not confirm if she will vote for Mr Corbyn after being pressed on which way she will vote. 

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Further questioned about suggestions of increasing abuse and intimidation in the Labour Party, Mr McDonnell says "whatever form of abuse is unacceptable". 

He says there are measures in the party to expel people who are found to have abused people. 

"All we can do is make sure the message gets out there, exactly as Jeremy Corbyn has done, 'this is the way people behave and we make sure they adhere to that', and I think they will."

BBC Sunday Politics

On the Labour leadership voting rules and the joining fee, Jeremy Corbyn tells the BBC's Sunday Politics Programme: "It is simply not very fair to tell people who joined the party in the last six months 'sorry your participation is no longer welcome'…

"That’s the problem - if they can’t afford the £25, what do they do? It is not really reasonable.

"A lot of people stop me in the street saying 'I’d love to vote in this election but I can’t afford £25'."

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Mr McDonnell is asked about abuse against Labour politicians and a video in which he was filmed swearing at "plotters". 

He says he is "extremely contrite" about the video and it "wasn't good". 

"Jeremy is exactly right. Angela Eagle said exactly the same thing this morning. We've got to conduct this debate in a comradely way." 

He says he wants a range of candidates on the ballot paper, adding that it is 2016 and not 1916 and there should be a woman on the ballot. 

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On the Labour leadership contest, Mr McDonnell says he does not want one but says it should be "orderly" and "democratic" and should happen in an "amicable and comradely way". 

Mr McDonnell calls for people to unite behind the winner. 

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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell is responding to David Davis's interview. 

On EU nationals staying in UK, he says he is "really shocked" that these questions weren't addressed in advance. 

He says people from the UK living in the EU and vice versa need "cast iron guarantees" and should be allowed to stay where they are.

Mr McDonnell says Labour has offered to work with the government to get the best deal for both UK and EU citizens. 

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Mr Davis is asked about whether people from elsewhere in the EU who live in the UK can remain after the UK leaves. 

He says if you pre-empt what will happen to those people you "put them at risk". 

He adds he wants a very generous settlement but does not want to encourage people to come to the UK to beat a deadline. 

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Mr Davis says there is an advantage to the fact Article 50 takes two years. 

He believes International Trade Secretary Liam Fox will do "huge deals" in that time. 

"We'll get a much larger (trade) area than the EU. The moment we leave they'll all come in. That's an enormous upside to this." 

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Brexit Minister David Davis is speaking to Murnaghan. 

He is asked about when the UK will leave the EU. 

He says Article 50 will be triggered next year but there is a "huge negotiation to do". 

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On Corbyn's election chances, Ken Loach says there is four years for him to set out what his Labour government could offer. 

He says there is too much of an emphasis on looking at personalities in politics, when instead there should be a focus on the "programme" Corbyn offers, which "will benefit the people who need help, who need security, who need homes, who need a health service that isn't run down".

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Pienaar’s Politics

Film director Ken Loach speaks to the programme about Jeremy Corbyn. 

He is asked about opinion polls being negative about Corbyn:

He says he thinks Corbyn is "in tune with the Labour movement".

"It's a small group in the PLP that has been trying to get him out since the moment he was elected. They're not representative but nevertheless they have levers of power," he says.  

On Monday, Prime Minister Theresa May will ask the House of Commons to approve a motion on the United Kingdom's independent nuclear deterrent and to support a "decision to take the necessary steps required to maintain the current posture by replacing the current Vanguard-class submarines with four successor submarines".

Labour's Hilary Benn tells Sky: "Nuclear deterrents have helped to keep the peace...

"Would anybody want to live in a world where no-one has nuclear weapons apart from North Korea?"

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Pienaar’s Politics

John Pienaar has been talking to Labour leadership hopeful Owen Smith. 

On how well known he is, Mr Smith jokes he is "barely a household name in his own household". 

He says he has nothing unique to offer as leader but he is "Labour to his finger tips". 

He says Labour is "at the moment sidelined" and "was not fighting for what we believe in". 

Asked about having one unity candidate to take on Corbyn, Mr Smith says it is not his "prime mission" to beat Mr Corbyn. 

But he says he does not think Mr Corbyn is a leader of men or women, and though he has good values he has not been able to articulate them. 

Mr Smith says he does not propose to be any less radical than Mr Corbyn.

Mr Smith reiterates that he would serve under Jeremy Corbyn if he wins the contest. 

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Former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who was sacked form Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet last month, told Sky’s Murnaghan programme that he was backing Angela Eagle for Labour leadership.

“I’m backing Angela Eagle because I think she’s got integrity and a huge amount of experience but above all she has extraordinary amount of courage,” he said.

He said it was “impossible to see how Jeremy Corbyn can take us into a general election”.

The Labour Party is “in a pretty unhappy state”, he said.