Owen Smith was confronted by a former miner after his speech earlier at the site of an important moment in the history of the miners’ strike, Orgreave in South Yorkshire.

In his speech, Mr Smith said he backed a public inquiry into the treatment of striking miners there by South Yorkshire police in 1984.  

John Dunn, a former striking miner from Derbyshire and a Labour member who supports Jeremy Corbyn, said the challenger was exploiting the location, adding: “If we had to depend on Owen Smith for justice then we might as well pack up now."

Theresa May is asked if she can provide "reassurance" to Italian citizens who live in the UK.

"I want to be able to guarantee their rights," the PM replies.

The only way that would not be possible, she thinks, is if the rights of UK citizens in other EU states are not guaranteed.

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Labour MP Lisa Nandy has defended Owen Smith against accusations of sexism after he talked about "smashing Theresa May back on her heels".Ms Nandy, a former Labour frontbencher, told presenter Martha Kearney he regretted his choice of words.   

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Theresa May says she has come to Rome to emphasise the UK's commitment to its relationship with Italy.

She says the UK is "very much part of Europe" and her talks with the Italian PM focused on maintaining economic ties between the two countries.

"But it will take time to work out the nature of our relationship," Mrs May says, now the UK has voted to leave the EU, adding:

Theresa May and Italian PM Matteo Renzi are holding a press conference following their talks in Rome.

Mr Renzi says Italians are "sad" about the UK's vote to leave the EU, especially as there are many Italian citizens resident in the UK.

However, he says he respects the result of the referendum and hopes that "from this painful decision, something good might come".

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Lord Bilimoria, an Indian-born entrepreneur who co-founded Cobra Beer, says India has made clear it wants to continue to "further and strengthen links" with Britain. He says India is the third biggest investor in the UK.

But the crossbench peer, who backed the Remain campaign, cautions that free trade deals "are not that easy" and "don't happen overnight".

He says there are elements other than just tariffs to consider, pointing out that India wants IT professionals working for Indian IT companies to be able to come to the UK freely but that the UK government wants to reduce net migration.

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GlaxoSmithKline is to invest £275m to expand its UK manufacturing sites, saying the country remains "an attractive location" despite Brexit. The pharmaceutical firm's chief executive Sir Andrew Witty backed the Remain campaign.

He tells the World at One that over the medium term - provided there's no "unnecessarily disruptive" regulatory regime change - he'd expect the company's overall footprint to "broadly continue as it is" with a "very substantial proportion in the UK".

On wider business confidence and long-term investment, he says the UK is in a bit of a period of a "phoney war" as no-one yet knows what the consequences of Brexit will be.

He says the government shouldn't "rush" to trigger Article 50 until it has mapped out fully what it wants to achieve.

Nicola Sturgeon sets out the key areas she believes must be protected when UK leaves the EU.

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Theresa May has begun talks with the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in Rome. After being welcomed at the grand Villa Doria Pamphili with a guard of honour and brass band playing God Save The Queen, Mrs May began her bilateral meeting with Mr Renzi, which is expected to last around 90 minutes.

The pair are set to discuss Brexit and also migration and the global economy in their first face-to-face talks since Mrs May took over as PM. Mrs May will follow her meeting with a trip on Thursday to Slovakia and Poland, where she will hold discussions with Prime Ministers Robert Fico and Beata Szydlo.

GlaxoSmithKline is to invest £275m into its UK manufacturing sites, saying the country remains "an attractive location" despite the Brexit vote.

Following the publication of figures showing the economy grew by grew by 0.6% in the months leading up to the EU referendum, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that the UK is entering negotiations to leave the EU from a position of economic strength.

During the Q&A after his speech, Owen Smith was asked about the specifics of his plans for a wealth tax and scrapping zero-hours contracts by the BBC's Chris Mason.

"On the wealth tax, I’m talking about a surcharge of 15% on unearned income, income from investment, charged against people who are already in the 1% and paying the £150,000 top rate of income tax," he said.

"That would raise £2.8bn per annum. We used to have one of these - until Thatcher scrapped it in the 1980s. We need to reintroduce it. It's time we asked the very wealthiest in our society to start paying more," he said.

On his plan to end zero-hours contracts, Mr Smith said employers should be offering minimum hours: "It could be one, but it shouldn't be zero." He added: "The employer should specify what hours people are going to work."

Owen Smith's campaign team say the Labour leadership hopeful is proposing 20 new policies, which they list as:

1. a pledge to focus on equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity

2. scrapping the Department for Work and Pensions and replacing it with a Ministry for Labour and a Department for Social Security

3. introducing modern wages councils for hotel, shop and care workers to strengthen terms and conditions

4. banning zero hour contracts

5. ending the public sector pay freeze

6. extending the right to information and consultation to cover all workplaces with more than 50 employees

7. ensuring workers’ representation on remuneration committees

8. repealing the Trade Union Act

9. increasing spending on the NHS by 4% in real-terms in every year of the next Parliament

10. a commitment to bringing NHS funding up to the European average within the first term of a Labour government

11. greater spending on schools and libraries

12. re-instating the 50p top rate of income tax

13. reversing the reductions in corporation tax due to take place over the next four years

14. reversing cuts to inheritance tax announced in the summer Budget

15. reversing cuts to capital gains tax announced in the summer Budget

16. a new wealth tax on the top 1% of earners

17. a British New Deal unveiling £200bn of investment over five years

18. a commitment to invest tens of billions in the north of England and to bring forward High Speed 3

19. a pledge to build 300,000 homes in every year of the next Parliament – 1.5m over five years

20. ending the scandal of fuel poverty by investing in efficient energy

Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith is challenged over a comment he made in his speech that Labour should be "smashing [Theresa May] back on her heels" - and whether such language sits with a commitment to equality for women.

Mr Smith says his words were "a piece of rhetoric... I don't literally want to smash Theresa May. I'm not advocating violence in any way shape or form".

But he adds that Labour should be "smashing" the Conservatives in Parliament.