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The Middle East minister Tobias Ellwood has commented on the start of the Iraqi military's push to drive the so-called Islamic State from the city of Mosul.

Mr Ellwood said: “The start of Iraqi operations to retake the city of Mosul marks another step forward towards clearing Daesh from Iraq.  

"This will be the greatest challenge that Iraq’s Security Forces have yet encountered. They are up to that challenge. The UK, as part of the Global Coalition, is committed to continuing to provide the government of Iraq with military, humanitarian and stabilisation support.”

Read more: Battle for Mosul: Operation to retake Iraqi city from IS begins

Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson Susan Kramer has said that the chancellor is right to take a cautious approach to Brexit.

Responding to (denied) newspaper reports, external that Philip Hammond is facing accusations of "undermining" Brexit, Baroness Kramer said: "You don’t have to be an accountant to realise the huge risks of ‘hard Brexit’ to jobs, wages and our economy.

"The real problem is even if the Chancellor has correctly identified the risks, he is not being listened to by the Prime Minister."

On Sunday the prominent Leave campaigner and Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg accused Treasury officials of "negativity" towards Brexit.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour, Mr Mogg said Mr Hammond said the chancellor needed a "proper breakfast and proper Brexit".

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The FA's Greg Clarke has responded to questions on the association's internal investigation processes into corruption, saying: "What we're short of is evidence, not power"

Mr Clarke also expressed doubts over whether the FA could achieve a better rate of football corruption convictions than the police. 

Laura Perrins, of The Conservative Woman website, outlines her objections to feminism.

Daily Politics reporter Ellie Price met candidates in Witney ahead of Thursday's high-profile by-election, caused by the resignation of a former PM,

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The Culture, Media and Sport Committee is hearing testimony from the Football Association chairman Greg Clarke and director of strategy Robert Sullivan. 

The focus, external is on the governance of football, including the reform of club ownership, player transfers, the role of agents and investment in grassroots football. 

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MPs are poised to call the prime minister to give evidence over the troubled child abuse inquiry.

Sources on the Home Affairs Select Committee want to know "what she knew and when" over the running of the inquiry and controversy over the role of its former chair, Justice Lowell Goddard.

It's understood members of the committee believe it is "inconceivable" the Home Office was not aware of concerns over the inquiry long before Justice Goddard resigned on 4 August.

Last week the Home Office said it had only been made aware on 29 July, six days before her resignation.

Theresa May - in her former role as home secretary - established the inquiry and appointed Justice Goddard.

A source said: "The difficulties at the inquiry pre-date [current Home Secretary] Amber Rudd. So we may well have to ask the prime minister to come back before the committee."

The source said there was "close liason" between the inquiry and the Home Office and they would have expected the home secretary to have been kept informed of any problems.

The committee has also written to Justice Goddard "in slightly more menacing" terms asking her to appear before it.

She has so far refused to give evidence to MPs.

MPs are expected to decide on Tuesday whether to summon Mrs May, following a hearing with the top civil servant at the Home Office, Mark Sedwill, and the current head of the inquiry, Alexis Jay.

Number 10 this reiterated that the Home Office had been unaware of the concerns over the inquiry prior to 29 July - when Theresa May was no longer home secretary.

Sources declined to say how Mrs May would respond if asked to appear before the committee.

"We are getting into hypotheticals," said Downing Street.

Coverage of Monday at the Northern Ireland Assembly, as MLAs debate motions on granting the region special status in the Brexit negotiations and calling for support for victims of domestic violence and sex crime.

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On the subject of Heathrow, The Daily Telegraph reports that the prime minister is facing challenges from her own MPs over a decision to expand the airport.

According to Telegraph political editor Peter Dominiczak, Theresa May has been warned by ministers that she will be making "a huge mistake" if she approves a third runway at Britain's busiest airport. 

Cabinet ministers opposed to expansion at Heathrow include Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Education Secretary Justine Greening. The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary Greg Clark is backing the proposals.

Read more: Theresa May warned off Heathrow expansion by her own ministers , external

M&C Saatchi helped the Remain Campaign in the run-up to the referendum vote. Moray MacLennan is the worldwide chief executive of the famous advertising firm. He explained why the focus on the potential economic impact of Brexit did not work.

The second day of a legal challenge over the government's right to trigger Article 50 without parliamentary approval is under way at the High Court.

The hearing, which began last Thursday, has been described as being of "fundamental constitutional importance".

The case against the government argues that Prime Minister Theresa May has no legal power to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty without Parliament granting her permission first.

Government lawyers argue that if the challenge succeeds, the government's ability to put the wishes of the British people into action would be undermined. 

Attorney General Jeremy Wright said: "The country voted to leave the EU in a referendum approved by an Act of Parliament. There must be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.

"The result should be respected and the government intends to do just that."

The prime minister has said she intends to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017, beginning the formal process by which member states leave the European Union. 

This follows June's referendum in which voters backed the "Leave" option by a margin of 51.9% to 48.1%.

Read more: Brexit: Court battle looms over rights of Parliament

Conservative MPs Adam Afriyie and Kwasi Kwarteng debated airport expansion on the Sunday Politics.

Mr Afriyie, who opposes expanding Heathrow said: "it is not in the national, regional or consumers' interest to expand Heathrow."

Mr Kwarteng, whose Spelthorne consituency borders the airport, is in favour of new runways at both Heathrow and Gatwick airports. 

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Labour's Andy McDonald has said the "imperative is overwhelming" on the need to build a new runway for London. 

Writing in the Guardian, the shadow transport secretary added that the "case is well made" for building a third runway at Heathrow. 

Mr McDonald qualified his support, however, saying that concerns over air quality, noise pollution and transport links had to be addressed before expansion could go ahead. 

Read more: Heathrow or not, have we resolved the human impacts of the third runway?, external

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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will today attend a meeting of EU foreign ministers, external in Luxembourg. 

The council is expected to discuss the current situation in Syria, following a week of increasing tension with Russia and calls for a no-fly zone to be imposed. 

Also on the agenda is migration in the EU, external. European ministers will be painfully aware of tensions around the subject, following a Hungarian referendum on rejecting the EU's quota system for distributing refugees around member states. 

On arrival in Luxembourg Mr Johnson maintained pressure on the Russian government, saying:

The foreign secretary responded to claims that his leading role in the Leave campaign was motivated by personal gain. 

The Andrew Marr Show

The former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg argued for parliament's right to scrutinise the detail of Brexit negotiations on Sunday's Andrew Marr Show.