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Liberal Democrat and Labour peers have been debating the government's Investigatory Powers Bill, which would let the security services access records of web use.

Labour has attacked the bill - known to many as the snoopers' charter - but its peers did not back a Lib Dem attempt to block parts of it.

Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn heard from Lib Dem Nick Clegg and Angela Smith, Labour's leader in the Lords, on where their parties stand over the powers.

Adam Fleming
Reporter, Daily Politics

Some want a post-Brexit passport to be blue, the colour used for British passports before the UK joined the EEC, now the European Union.

Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming asked people near a passport office if they cared about the design of the document, currently subject to EU rules meaning all nations use the same burgundy design.

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Former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and Ryan Bourne, head of public policy at the Institute of Economic Affairs, on what could happen to supermarket prices when the UK leaves the EU.

They debated tariffs and the competing claims of lower and higher prices with Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn.

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Iain Wright, chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, is critical of the amount of time it's taken for the government to flesh out what its industrial strategy is. 

Amid the "unprecedented uncertainty" of Brexit, and three months after the department was set up, he questions why the secretary of state "cannot set out the government's industrial strategy in any sort of detail".

In addition, he says, important steps on airport expansion and new energy generation are "taking far too long".

This week the government announced that a final decision on a new runway in the London area would not be fully made until 2018.

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Conservative (and former health secretary) Lord Lansley tells peers that pharmacies need to diversify their income.

He says it has been clear for a long time that pharmacies should not be wholly reliant on dispensing fees.

Baroness Chisolm agrees and says the new reforms are designed to encourage such diversification. 

Such honours aren't rescinded by the Commons, but by the Honours Forfeiture Committee, our correspondent Susan Hulme says. 

It's made up of senior civil servants, chaired by the head of the civil service and it only convenes at the request of the Prime Minister. 

Honours can be removed from anyone who's brought the system into disrepute - for example being sent to prison for at least three months or struck off from their job.

If the committee recommends an honour should be removed, the decision is sent to the Queen by the Prime Minister. 

The Queen then decides if the honour should be forfeited.

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As the debate ends, the amendment that calls on the Honours Forfeiture Committee to cancel Sir Philip Green's knighthood is agreed without a vote.

The Commons does not have the power to strip someone of their knighthood, any decision to do so is made by the civil servants of the Honours Forfeiture Committee. 

The government says that honours can be taken away from "people who have done something to damage the honours system's reputation", external.

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Shadow business secretary Clive Lewis says the collapse of BHS is a "sordid, shabby affair". He pays tribute to committee chairs Frank Field and Iain Wright for their work investigating the issue. 

He says there is "a great deal of anger in the House" which "reflects the anger that many of those who elected us are feeling." 

Sir Philip "used BHS as his own personal plaything", and despite this "still retains his knighthood".

On stripping Sir Philip of his knighthood, he says it "won't create jobs for the 11,000", fill the pension fund deficit or the hole left on high streets across the country and won't ensure companies in the BHS supply chain get paid. 

He says that Sir Philip can "keep his honour, as long as he pays back the pension deficit, in full, from his own wealth".

Brexit Secretary David Davis says he is committed to maintaining the "most effective possible open market" across the island of Ireland after the UK leaves the EU.

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Baroness Goldie has the task of replying to the debate, telling the House: "The government has made clear that, as we leave the EU, we will not be turning our back on the world."

She says the UK will remain a member of the UN Security Council, Nato, the G7, the G20 and the Commonwealth - and "will continue to be a strong and influential European voice on the world stage".

Security policy is an area in which the interests of the UK and EU states will continue to "co-incide", she adds, promising "close security co-operation".

Earlier, Labour peer Lord Liddle said Leave campaigners wanted to revive the "anglosphere". Baroness Goldie, a former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, responds:

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The SNP's Martin Docherty-Hughes is talking about meeting former staff of his local branch of BHS. He says they've been "professional and dignified" in the wake of the retailer's collapse, in "striking contrast to Mr Green".

He calls for the government to "get to grips with unscrupulous businesspeople". 

Because of his conduct "it is right" that Sir Philip be stripped of his knighthood, but adds that he must also be pressured to keep his promise to help plug the gap in the BHS pension fund.

The European Union should keep all options open in dealing with Russia, including sanctions, if it continues its "crimes" in Aleppo, President Donald Tusk says. 

As he arrived at the leader's summit in Brussels, he also warned a troubled trade deal with Canada could be the EU's last free trade deal if Belgium fails to approve it.

But he also joked about Theresa May's first talks at the European Council as PM, saying she would be perfectly "safe" when she briefs on Brexit.

"Some media described her first meeting in the European Council as entering the lion's den. It's not true. It's more like a nest of doves," he said.

"Just look at me; I think it's obvious also for you. You can be sure she will be absolutely safe with us."

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"None of us have a crystal ball to predict the future with certainty," says shadow foreign affairs spokesman Lord Collins of Highbury.

However, he says the government needs to reassure Parliament that it has carried out "a full and proper assessment of the impact that Brexit will have on the United Kingdom".

The priority must be to "protect the interests of the United Kingdom and its people", the Labour peer says.

He argues that "there is a middle way between micro-management and exclusion of Parliament" in the form of "timely comment" on the Brexit process.

That way, the final agreement could "enjoy both parliamentary and public support", he adds.

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Former MEP Baroness Ludford says Brexit will mean the UK is "not as well placed to contribute as strongly to EU security in its widest sense".

The Liberal Democrat peer describes the EU as "an essential partner and complement to Nato".

She says it is "vital" to get answers from the government on how future co-operation will work.

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Independent Edinburgh West MP Michelle Thomson talks about the way money from Sir Philip's businesses was "redeployed" to the Green family, in ways that meant the UK tax paid was minimised. 

All legal, she says, but were they "irreproachable"? She is a supporter of stripping Sir Philip of his knighthood.

In 2005, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group paid a £1.2bn dividend to the chain's owner, Sir Philip's wife Tina. She lives full time in Monaco, so paid no UK tax.

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Labour peer Lord Judd is concerned about the implications of Brexit for the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.

"Ireland is a time bomb ticking away on our own doorstep," he claims.

Turning to the refugee crisis, the Labour peer says he is "appalled to see the headlines going out around the world about whether children should be tested or not" before coming to the UK.

Conservative MP David Davies called for child migrants arriving in the UK from Calais to have their teeth tested to verify their age, which the British Dental Association said was unethical.

"What on earth is the neurosis that has overtaken us?" Lord Judd asks.