Speaker John Bercow has told Labour MP Seema Malhotra that claims of unauthorised entry into her office do not amount to a possible breach of Commons rules, sources say.

Ms Malhotra, one of many MPs who resigned from the Labour front bench, formally complained to the Speaker, saying staff working for leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell violated the privacy of her Westminster office.

Mr McDonnell said his office manager thought the premises, which Ms Malhotra used when she was shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, were no longer occupied, and accused Mr Corbyn's critics of picking on members of staff.

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The new International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, has announced plans to open three further UK government offices in the United States focused on promoting British business.

The offices, in Minneapolis, Raleigh and San Diego, would follow the model of existing offices in Denver and Seattle, according to a government press release., external

Mr Fox, who is visiting the US in his new role, is expected to tell a business audience in Chicago later:

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Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock has been among the senior party figures calling on current leader Jeremy Corbyn to go.

BBC Parliament's Sean Curran spoke to the Labour peer about his nine years as leader - and his views on Brexit.

Ministers must put education policy at the centre of the drive to deliver social mobility, the Social Mobility Commission chairman has said.

Former Labour minister Alan Milburn said an education system in England that left many lacking the skills they needed in the modern labour market must not be tolerated.

He called for a new target that by 2020 at least half of children from poor homes should achieve five good GCSEs.

Speaking at Teach First's Impact Conference, external, Mr Milburn also suggested:

• scrapping tuition fees for teacher training and providing housing support for existing teachers who worked in the worst schools in disadvantaged areas
• the lowest performing 20% of schools were given intensive support or had wholesale change in leadership if they continued to fail
• introducing a new school performance measure in 2018 to track pupils' destinations into work or continued education. Read more

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Iain Watson tells BBC News that a lawyer for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has yet to put his case in response to a challenge to his automatic right to stand in the Labour leadership contest.

A lawyer for Labour's National Executive Committee is making the case for the NEC's decision that Mr Corbyn automatically qualified to take part.

The NEC's argument, Iain adds, is that if MPs had the right to "oust their own leader without reference to the membership, that would have been made explicit in Labour's rule book - and it isn't".

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BBC political correspondent Iain Watson says it's likely we will have to wait until later in the week for a judgement in the legal challenge to Jeremy Corbyn's right to automatically stand in the Labour leadership contest. However, the legal arguments should be concluded today.

A lawyer for party donor and former candidate Michael Foster has argued that the Labour leader should not have "a special advantage" as the incumbent, Iain says.

"Labour's rules don't mention the concept of incumbency at all," and therefore Mr Foster's lawyer argues Mr Corbyn should seek the nomination of 50 Labour MPs to stand again as leader.

"if the court was to decide that, that would have huge implications," Iain says, as Jeremy Corbyn only got the support of 40 MPs in the recent no-confidence vote.

If he can't make it to 50 MPs, he would "in effect be out of the contest".

Enda Kenny ends his brief remarks by inviting Theresa May to visit Dublin once she has "settled" into her new job.

Although he wanted a different outcome, the Irish PM says he wants to approach the consequences of the Brexit vote in "as practical and creative and imaginative a way as possible".

He says he wants to ensure the UK remains "outward-looking".

Enda Kenny echoes Mrs May's condemnation of the attack in France and congratulates her on becoming prime minister.

He says he wants to build on the "close relationship" between the UK and the Republic of Ireland and confirms the two leaders have pledged to "work together on a range of issues".

He says both governments are "guarantors" of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and are "determined to work for a prosperous and peaceful Northern Ireland". 

He says the Republic of Ireland did not want the UK to vote to leave the EU but he respects the view of the British electorate, adding. 

Theresa May and Enda Kenny are appearing at a press conference following their talks in Downing Street.

Mrs May starts by offering her condolences to the people of France, after a priest was killed in an attack by two armed men at his church in a suburb of Rouen.

Moving on, Mrs May says it is "testament to the importance of the relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland" that Mr Kenny is one of the first leaders she has met since becoming prime minister.

Talks have focused on Brexit and what it means for the Republic of Ireland, she says, covering issues including trade and security.

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After Nigel Farage's attendance at the Republican National Convention, shadow health secretary Diane Abbott is at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and has written a dispatch for the Huffington Post, external. 

She says there is "a lot of interest" in Jeremy Corbyn there as "most of the nonsensical British media coverage has not impacted on ordinary Americans".

"They see him as a progressive insurgent on the Sanders model with Sanders' uncanny ability to enthuse idealistic young people," she claims.

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Here's a shot of Prime Minister Theresa May greeting Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny upon his arrival at 10 Downing Street. Their meeting is the latest in a series of introductory talks that Mrs May is having with EU leaders. This, like the others, is likely to be dominated by the question of how Brexit will unfold over the coming years. 

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Conservative and acting chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Damian Collins, says Ofcom's recommendation that BT's Openreach division should become a distinct company within the BT group rather than being split off entirely will achieve "the right balance". 

The committee is "concerned" that there is not enough investment from BT through Openreach to improve the network and not enough independence of operation, he specifies.  

But he stresses Ofcom's decision is the "last-chance saloon" and "total separation is not off the table" if the situation does not get better. 

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Unaccompanied migrant children are being "systematically let down" by EU member states including the UK, according to a report by the House of Lords' EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee.  

Chair of the committee, crossbencher Baroness Prashar said: "We found a clear failure among EU countries, including the UK, to shoulder their fair share of the burden."

She added that the committee "deeply regrets" the UK government’s "reluctance to relocate migrant children to the UK, in particular those living in terrible conditions in the camps near the channel ports".

Nearly 90,000 lone minors sought refuge in the EU in 2015 - a sharp increase compared with just over 23,000 in the previous year.

In the UK last year there were 3,043 applications from unaccompanied asylum-seeking children - an increase of 56% on the number in 2014.

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Labour peer Lord Falconer, a former lord chancellor, has defended his criticism of the current holder of the position, Liz Truss, in an article in the Guardian., external

Liz Truss has become the first woman to be sworn into office as lord chancellor - and is the third lord chancellor in a row who is not a lawyer. Lord Falconer insists that he is critical of the second of these facts, not the first, saying it is "brilliant" that there is a female lord chancellor.

But he adds: "The response of the lord chancellor has rather increased my concerns. Sources close to Liz Truss are now, according to the Guardian, saying the attacks on her amount to thinly veiled misogyny.

"They claim that no one ever attacked the appointment of Chris Grayling or Michael Gove as a breach of the law which requires that the prime minister can only recommend someone for appointment if they appear qualified by experience. So the only explanation for the attack on Truss must be her gender, it is said. This defence of the rule of law has become a row about sexism."

He continues: "This is wrong on the facts: Grayling’s appointment was attacked on exactly the same basis." And Lord Falconer adds: "The way Grayling behaved as lord chancellor and the appalling inroads he made on the most basic protections the law provides, particularly to the poor and immigrants, show that having a staunch defender of the principles of the law really matters."

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said "nothing should be ruled out" to "protect jobs and growth from the economic uncertainty ahead" in the capital, following the UK's vote to leave the EU.

The mayor has announced that the London Finance Commission, which set out devolution proposals for the capital in 2013, is to be reconvened. The commission, chaired by Professor Tony Travers  of the London School of Economics, proposed full devolution of property taxes and business rates.

"London’s population is the same size of Wales and Scotland combined, but we have far less control over how the capital is run," Mr Khan said. He claimed that Chancellor Philip Hammond is "open" to further devolution following initial discussions.

Prof Travers said:

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Former UKIP spokeswoman Suzanne Evans has endorsed Lisa Duffy, a councillor in the Ramsey ward of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, to be the party's next leader.

Ms Evans has ruled herself out of the contest, having previously said she would "love" to run for leader but that her suspension means she is technically no longer a party member so that will make it "very difficult" for her to stand.

Read more about the other possible candidates to succeed Nigel Farage.