The World at One
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Former Cabinet Office Minister Sir Oliver Letwin reflects on his time in government on the World at One. Sir Oliver, who left the government when Theresa May became PM, played a key role in formulating Conservative policy and in working with the Liberal Democrats in coalition.

He thinks that governments are placing a greater emphasis on social justice and claims that Conservatives did not do enough in the 1980s to help people from difficult backgrounds to succeed.

"We were all quite wrong in the '80s to think that that could be done just by a person changing themselves in later life," he says, arguing that the state and the voluntary sector needed to intervene.

Last year, Sir Oliver apologised for remarks he made about black communities days after the 1985 Broadwater Farm riot in north London, when he was an adviser to Margaret Thatcher. In a memo released under the 30 year rule, he blamed the unrest on "bad moral attitudes" and suggested black entrepreneurs would set up in the "disco and drug trade".

He tells the World at One he "cringed" when the memo was made public.

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

Shadow minister Jonathan Ashworth tells the World at One that Labour faces returning to Parliament after the party conferences without "a full front bench" following shadow cabinet resignations and splits over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

He also criticises talk of reselection of Labour MPs: "I don't think these threats of reselection are remotely helpful."

Mr Ashworth says he and his colleagues "work incredibly hard" - and all MPs go through an automatic reselection process in their constituency parties known as a "trigger ballot".

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

Labour MP Yvette Cooper tells the World at One that Theresa May is "right to say" there is a difference between refugees and economic migrants but she criticises what she calls a "bureaucratic resistance" to helping refugees.

Conservative MP Heidi Allen also criticises the amount of red tape, adding: "We have to make sure we play our part for the people that are in Europe already, because they can't go back."

Responding for the Home Office on the response to the refugee crisis, a spokesman said: "This government has been at the forefront of the international response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria. We have pledged £2.3 billion in humanitarian aid to Syria and neighbouring countries and are providing nearly £70 million in response to the Mediterranean migration crisis."

Comedian Jeremy Hardy, who has been on a tour campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn to stay as Labour leader, has called the prime minister a “disgrace” because of her stance on refugees.

Speaking at a display of life jackets in Parliament Square raising awareness about the issue, he said as Home Secretary Mrs May had “ramped up” the rhetoric around immigration.

He said: “I hope her conscience speaks to her to actually prioritise helping people instead of demonising them and criminalising them."

Mr Hardy said the government was doing “nothing” with only a tiny handful of people being brought to the UK. He added there was “a very fine line” between being a refugee and an economic migrant.

UK banks would lose automatic right to operate in the EU if the UK left the single market, the head of Germany's central bank says.

Carole Walker
Political correspondent

The campaign manager for one of UKIP's former leadership contenders has called for an investigation into the contest and said the new leader, Diane James, should not have been allowed to stand because she did not meet the party's criteria.

Jay Beecher, Campaign manager for Lisa Duffy, has released a statement saying:

"One of Diane's assenters, the wife of Ian McKie, in fact, is not a member of UKIP. This has been confirmed by head office, and means that Diane's paperwork wasn't in order, did not meet the strict criteria set out from the beginning, and as such, just like Steven Woolfe, Diane James should not have been able to stand, and subsequently should not be our new leader."

He alleges that "in direct contradiction of rule N4 of our party's rulebook, Diane James was given unfair advantage in the contest by being able to use the Leave.EU database to send out her campaign material to millions of people.... this, despite my raising it with the returning officer, went ignored".

A UKIP spokesman said he was not aware of any complaint about the process.

The Daily Politics mood box is used to hear the views of Liberal Democrats on a UK-EU deal.

Reporter Adam Fleming used the unscientific test, with a box and balls, to hear if there should be another vote on the final agreement to seal Britain's future relations with its neighbours after it leaves the European Union.

Tracking the progress the government is making - or not - in achieving the promises made in the Conservatives' 2015 general election manifesto.

More reaction to the speech Theresa May is due to deliver later.

Yvette Cooper, chair of Labour's Refugee Taskforce, said the Government should accept 20,000 refugees over two years rather than five years. She said it costs lives if Britain didn’t do its bit and stressed that all countries should be helping.

“We should have more border controls across Europe” to stop people-trafficking but added there should be “legal routes to sanctuary” she said.

She criticised Theresa May for only wanting to talk about border controls and not talking about helping refugees.

Read more about Mrs May's speech

Jo Coburn
Daily Politics presenter

Wales is missing an opportunity to shape the EU debate in the face of Brexit, the Welsh Conservative leader claims.

BBC News Channel

Labour MP Kate Green, who resigned from the shadow cabinet in June, tells the BBC News channel that it is "incumbent on the leader" to unite the party.

Ms Green, who supports Owen Smith in the leadership contest, argues that work to ensure unity has "not been seen under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership previously".

There should be "a loyalty to MPs as well as an expectation of loyalty from MPs" she adds.

The Andrew Marr Show

The former Labour leader, Lord Kinnock, has given his bleakest warning yet about the future of the party if Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership election.

He told the BBC's Panorama programme he would not expect to see another Labour government in his lifetime.

The shadow defence secretary, Clive Lewis, said Lord Kinnock was respected by many in the party but it was wrong to say that Jeremy Corbyn had taken Labour to the left.

David Laws says his party has to sort out its own problems, not strike cross-party deals.