Here's a recap of the main events on the final day of voting in the Labour leadership contest:

• Jeremy Corbyn tells the BBC he wants to "wipe the slate clean" if he retains his position as Labour leader
• Voting ended at 12:00 BST in the contest between Mr Corbyn and challenger Owen Smith
• Mr Smith has said he would not join Mr Corbyn's shadow cabinet but would carry on speaking out from the backbenches if he loses
• Prime Minister Theresa May has said she will not allow an "industry of vexatious allegations" against UK troops over claims of abuse in Iraq
• There has been little impact of the Brexit vote on the UK economy so far, says the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
• The Commons Defence Committee has warned of the risk of so-called Islamic State proliferating into an "international movement" if it is forced out of Iraq and Syria

And here's BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg's full interview with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn says he is happy to "wipe the slate clean" if he retains his position as Labour leader.

Mr Corbyn told the BBC he had never responded to the "unpleasant remarks" directed at him by a "very large number of Labour MPs" during the campaign.

And he said "an awful lot" of MPs had contacted him keen to "play their part" in the party after the leadership contest is over.

Voting has now closed and the result is due to be announced on Saturday.

Mr Corbyn is the overwhelming favourite to win and, despite apparent strong support among the party's supporters, most of his MPs do not back his leadership, and he has faced mass resignations from his shadow cabinet.

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Kenny MacAskill has become the latest senior SNP figure to caution against a "headlong rush" into a second Scottish independence referendum.

The former justice secretary in the Scottish government said the Brexit vote left too many questions that the SNP still had to answer.

It follows MSP Joan McAlpine saying on Tuesday that Nicola Sturgeon had put a referendum on the back burner.

But former first minister Alex Salmond has predicted a second independence vote will be held in 2018.

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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has insisted that Britain must take responsibility for the thousands of migrants in the "Jungle" camp at Calais.

Meeting local residents, he vowed to "fix the problem" of the camp by the end of 2017 if his campaign to win back the presidency next year is successful.

Mr Sarkozy is among seven candidates for the Republican nomination.

But his campaign's focus on immigration has been dogged by controversy.

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MPs have warned of the risk of so-called Islamic State proliferating into an "international movement" if it is forced out of Iraq and Syria.

The Commons Defence Committee said there was a danger of IS, also known as Daesh, forming regional offshoots, like al-Qaeda before it, in Africa and Asia.

IS-backed fighters are active in Libya and have mounted attacks in Turkey.

Speaking in Iraq, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK would not "walk away" once Daesh was defeated.

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After the Labour leadership election ballot closed earlier, a party spokesman said: "This leadership election has been the biggest of its kind, with over 650,000 eligible voters, while engaging millions more in the conversation about Labour’s future through TV debates and social media.

"To ensure the validity of the process, Labour put in place a robust validation process to ensure votes cast were eligible according to the party’s rules and procedures. 

"Less than 0.5% of the total electorate in this contest have been deemed ineligible to vote, and the Labour Party received less than half the number of ballot re-issue requests than last year, despite an increase in the electorate.

"The Labour Party is a democratic organisation and we hope to be able to build on the level of interest received in our leadership election and develop our movement, while we unite behind whoever is elected as our leader on Saturday and come together to take on the Tories as we head towards important local elections and the next general election."

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The Welsh Labour party is offered more power to make its own decisions under plans agreed by the UK party's ruling National Executive Committee.

Former MP Chris Mullin looks back over his political career and the Labour Party today.

He spoke to Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn after a film with archive from reporter Ellie Price, offering advice for those who want a career in politics.

The Labour Party has agreed in principle to give Welsh Labour more say over party matters. What will it mean in practice?

A permit scheme limiting the number of EU workers coming to Britain after Brexit could see a cut in immigration figures.

Alp Mehmet from Migration Watch UK and Open Britain executive director James McGrory looked at what the UK could and should be doing about immigration, and free movement from EU and non-EU nations.

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Margaret Thatcher's divisions with her chancellor and foreign secretary Geoffrey Howe are revisited in a play touring the country.

Daily Politics reporter Mark Lobel spoke to the cast of Dead Sheep at their final rehearsal, which focuses on Sir Geoffrey, rather than the leader he helped bring down.

Who's the real opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn or Diane James?

Earlier we reported on calls in the Telegraph for Tony Blair to return to frontline politics. 

Now one of his former advisers tweets (in jest - we think): 

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Conservative members of the Welsh Assembly have said they are "not persuaded" that allowing all schools to select pupils by ability is "appropriate" in Wales.

Prime Minister Theresa May has announced that all schools in England will be able to become selective under certain conditions, under plans also allowing grammar schools to expand.

On Wednesday, UKIP will call for the grammar system's re-introduction in Wales, in a Senedd debate.

Wales' education secretary, Lib Dem Kirsty Williams, has called grammar schools a "distraction".

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Ex-finance minister Sammy Wilson has backed the businessman scandalised in the biggest property deal in Northern Ireland's history as "a friend" who had done "great work".

The National Asset Management Agency sold its NI property loan portfolio for £1.2bn in 2014.

Frank Cushnahan's role in the deal has been the subject of controversy.

Mr Wilson said it should be the police who decided whether Mr Cushnahan had done anything wrong, not "a bunch of amateurs in (BBC) Spotlight".

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