Summary

  • Liam Fox delivers speech on international trade and Brexit

  • He says UK has 'golden opportunity' on global trade

  • Italian PM Matteo Renzi says Brexit was 'a bad decision'

Live Reporting

Aiden James and Alex Hunt

  1. Listen again: German business leader says 'hard Brexit' is best

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    The head of Germany's biggest business lobby group has said it would be better for the UK to have a clean break from the EU rather than some kind of "fudge".

    Markus Kerber told Today programme presenter Justin Webb there needed to be a "hard exit" from the EU to avoid lingering uncertainty.

    He was speaking ahead of the speech from International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, saying Britain's future wholly outside the EU is economically rosy, with free trade, tariff-free deals available with countries around the world.

  2. Downing Street's mouser was out in the rain earlier

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  3. Watch: Echoes of EU referendum campaign in the US?

    BBC Newsnight

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    "We are taking back control. We will make our country great again." Sound familiar? Newsnight's Emily Maitlis reports on the parallels between the UK's vote for Brexit, and support for Donald Trump in the US presidential election.  

  4. Baby news from Norwich North MP Chloe Smith

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  5. Analysis: Liam Fox seeks 'hard' Brexit

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  6. Lunch break: Five of the most viewed videos on BBC website

    This is the moment a police officer brought an out-of-control car to a stop after the driver went into a diabetic coma on the M1.

    The Italian prime minister has said it will be "impossible" for Brexit negotiations to result in a deal that gives British people more rights than those outside the EU.

    The driver of a 44-tonne truck was among motorists caught using their mobile phone as the BBC joined Central Motorway Police on patrol.

    Michelle Obama has taken aim at Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump, saying "a president can’t just pop off" when he or she is upset.

    Impressionist Darren Farley takes 5 live Breakfast on a journey through the various types of Liverpool accent - demonstrated using famous footballers.

  7. Watch: Politicians and the power pose

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  8. 'Liam Fox is aiming high'

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    Diplomatic correspondent

    The international trade secretary told an audience of business leaders in Manchester that when Britain leaves the EU, he wants it to have a trade environment with European economies that is at least as free as it is now. Anything else, he said, may not harm the politicians and institutions in Brussels, but it would harm the people of Europe.

    He also said for the first time that he wanted a post Brexit Britain to be a full independent member of the World Trade Organisation, a clear signal that he does not believe the UK should seek what's called a soft Brexit, involving membership of the EU single market or customs union.

    Dr Fox's argument is that EU leaders won't want to impose punishing new tariffs on British goods and services for fear of harming their own economy.

    But hoping for a trade deal with the EU as good as it is now will be seen by some as highly optimistic.

  9. Watch: Ineos director says Labour fracking ban is 'misguided'

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  10. Italian PM warns UK over EU rights

    It will be "impossible" for Brexit talks to result in a deal that gives Britons more rights than others outside the EU, Italian PM Matteo Renzi says.

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  11. One viewer agrees on the big question

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  12. Watch: The big political question of the day!

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  13. EU campaign 'too strident' says former minister

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    Former minister Oliver Letwin says David Cameron will be remembered for "rescuing the country from the brink of bankruptcy" as well as "social and public service reform" - rather than just for losing the EU referendum.

    Mr Letwin describes himself as a "long-term Eurosceptic who voted for Remain, not because I thought disaster would strike one way or the other" but on "the balance of risk".

    He tells the Daily Politics the referendum campaign was "too high intensity" and the centre ground could have been persuaded with a "less strident" argument about risk from the Remain side.

  14. Does former minister regret NHS reorganisation?

    The Daily Politics

    Oliver Letwin

    Former Conservative Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Letwin looks back at the coalition with the Lib Dems on the Daily Politics.

    Does he regret the Health and Social Care Bill, which reorganised the NHS in England and led to accusations of privatisation from critics?

    "We made some errors," he says, such as not realising "how difficult it was to knit together health and social care".

    He argues that ministers were "distracted into changes" which, while "perfectly sensible in principle", took attention away from providing a "seven-day NHS".

  15. Watch: Why did MP put old letters in park bins?

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  16. Watch: Did Oliver Letwin disappear in election campaign after tax claims?

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  17. FMQs: Conservatives say Sturgeon 'turning blind eye' on shale gas issue

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  18. First Minister's Questions: 2016 a 'success story' for energy in Scotland

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  19. Scottish First Minister's Questions: Labour attacks Sturgeon on NHS

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  20. Watch: Liberal Democrat MEP on UK trade with the EU

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