High Court challenge to Brexit process succeeds
Ruling says MPs, not just PM, must approve Article 50 process
Government to appeal against decision
Bank of England raises 2017 UK growth forecast
UK-EU security inquiry
Select Committee
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Image source, RetuersBetween 1995 - 2000 EU members agreed on 130 policing and judicial measures including exchange of information and harmonising criminal procedure.
Since 2009 the UK has had an "opt out" arrangement on any new measures.
The UK has opted in to a number of measures including the European Arrest Warrant and the Schengen Information System.
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Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn will present live coverage of Prime Minister’s Questions, with reaction from political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
They will be joined by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland James Brokenshire and shadow secretary of state for Wales Jo Stevens to discuss Keith Vaz’s appointment to the Justice Select Committee and All-Ireland talks on Brexit.
And they will also look at Fifa turning down a request from England and Scotland for football players to wear armbands featuring poppies when they face each other at Wembley on Armistice Day.
Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street ahead of PMQs.
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Image source, Getty ImagesUK inflation will quadruple to about 4% in the second half of next year and cut disposable income, a leading think tank has forecast.
The rise in prices will "accelerate rapidly" during 2017 as the fall in sterling is passed on to consumers, according to the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR).
The revised figure is sharply higher than the 3% it forecast in August.
The economy also faces "significant risks" that could restrict growth.
"Households have really got a choice. Do they spend less or do they start saving less?" Dr Angus Armstrong, director of macroeconomics at NIESR, told the BBC's Today programme.
He said given the savings ratio was at its lowest level since 2008, "the most likely scenario is that they spend much less, hence the weaker [growth] forecast for next year."
House of Commons
1130 Cabinet Office questions
1200 Prime Minister's Question Time
1230 A Ten Minute Rule Motion on British Victims of Terrorism (Asset-Freezing and Compensation)
1245 Opposition day debates on (i) community pharmacies (ii) subject to be announced
A short debate on the UK's membership of the EU Customs Union
Westminster Hall
0930 Funding of West Sussex schools
1100 Small shops regulation
1430 Good Parliament report
1600 Housing in Kent
1630 Effect of social media on the mental health of young people
House of Lords
1500 Oral questions
1530 Policing and Crime Bill - committee stage
A short debate on projects supported by the Conflict, Security and Stability Fund established in 2015
Investigatory Powers Bill - consideration of Commons amendments
BBC Radio 5 live
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Image source, PAJustice Secretary Liz Truss is due to hold urgent talks with leaders of the Prison Officers Association as concerns grow about safety in jails.
The union had planned meetings outside each jail on Tuesday, to highlight fears over increasing violence and suicides in English and Welsh prisons.
The move could have been seen as an unofficial walkout by the union, which is banned from staging strikes.
It was called off after branch meetings to talk about matters were authorised.
Citing a lack of clarity over the content of the Article 50 negotiations, academics at Kings' College London say Brexit negotiations will place pressure on parliament, the courts, the civil service and the British constitution.
Professor Anand Menon, director of KCL's UK in a Changing Europe Initiative, said:
Quote MessageArticle 50 negotiations will be tricky and hideously technical but that is the easy bit. When it comes to the crafting of a future relationship, almost everything is up in the air."
Prof Menon added: “Brexit thus has the potential to test the UK’s constitutional settlement, legal framework, political process and bureaucratic capacities to their limits – and possibly beyond."
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Prison officer speaks out about the state of prisons ahead of talks
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Image source, Jonathan Brady/ PA WirePeople could get the choice of a pen as well as a pencil when they go to vote, after fraud fears at the EU referendum.
The Electoral Commission received "almost 200 calls" from voters worried about using a pencil on 23 June.
Lib Dem Lord Rennard has asked the government if it would provide "special ballot pens" instead of pencils.
And the Electoral Commission says it is looking at "alternatives to providing pencils for voters in polling stations which could improve confidence".
Politicians from Northern Ireland and the Republic are meeting in Dublin to discuss the implications of Brexit for the island.
Representatives from business and farming organisations, as well as civic society, are also attending the talks.
However, neither the DUP nor the Ulster Unionist Party are at the conference.
The All Island Civic Dialogue on Brexit is taking place at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham.
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Image source, PAEd Balls and Strictly dance partner Katya Jones
Strictly Come Dancing star Ed Balls has admitted he has expected to be in the dance-off every week.
The Labour former shadow chancellor and Strictly fan favourite, who has delighted and alarmed audiences with his moves on the dance floor, said it has been a big surprise when he is voted through every week.
He told ITV's Good Morning Britain:
Quote MessageI've expected to be in the dance-off every week because I'm the novice and I'm easily not the best, the worst dancer really. What I try to do every week is do the steps and make it fun and try to get that balance right. We have taken risks. We always thought we would be in the dance-off and so far we haven't and it's been a big surprise every week."
Mr Balls, who performed a lift on host Susanna Reid during the breakfast show, also revealed what went wrong in the much-maligned lift he performed with his professional partner Katya Jones, which left the judges scared he would drop her.
"In the week we had done this lift for the first time because Katya had seen a picture and we worked out we could get up there and I could turn around so we did this full turn," he said.
"Nobody had ever seen it before and it had never been done. Every time it had worked in rehearsal, we thought it was really solid and it is and that hold is where I am and then for whatever reason her foot went and she basically pivoted and everyone was worried about me dropping her but actually she was totally secure but just spun around."
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Image source, PAConservative Michael Fabricant has told men to not be “shy” about their “bits and pieces” as that can lead to prostate cancer and death.
In a personal blog for The Huffington Post, external today, the Lichfield MP describes the medical procedures he underwent.
“For most of my life, I had never been to hospital - at least as a patient,” he writes. “I am not overweight, my blood pressure is normal, I don’t smoke, and I am not a diabetic. Bad habits? I drink too much occasionally and have spent too much time in the sun.”
But blood tests revealed he needed treatment including a biopsy. “This involves a device being inserted up your rectum and core samples being taken from the prostate, but I eventually agreed. It wasn’t painful - they give you a local anaesthetic first - but it is uncomfortable,” he adds.
“Years ago, we used to say ‘most people die with prostate cancer, not of prostate cancer’. But with longer life expectancy, that is no longer the case.”
Mr Fabricant said the “moral” of his story was “everything might seem alright, but, as the old song goes, that ain’t necessarily so”.
“So here’s the thing: it is no use men being shy about their bits and pieces. That can lead to death,” he advises.
Roberto Azevedo on the uncertainty surrounding post-Brexit trade between the UK and other WTO members.
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Image source, Getty ImagesIn another interview, this time with the BBC News Channel, UKIP's biggest donor Aaron Banks threatened to stop funding the party unless it "cleanses itself" of some of its best-known figures.
Mr Banks - who says he has given £1m to the party - said the party was "in a terrible mess", adding it was "at a crossroads - it will either die and fade into the background or come back as a different force".
He hit out at what he described as a "faction" who had caused UKIP "so much trouble", pledging that he would stop donating to the party unless it kicked them out.
"At the moment I'm sitting on the fence," he said.
Earlier, in an email to supporters, he named UKIP's only MP Douglas Carswell, leadership contender Suzanne Evans and the party's leader in Wales Neil Hamilton as a "fifth column" who had "made Nigel's life a misery".
Mr Banks gave a qualified backing to Paul Nuttall to take over from Nigel Farage - but added:
Quote MessageI doubt whether he has the strength to deal with the career politicians that have come into the party."
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Image source, ReutersMore than 150 Conservative MPs have backed Keith Vaz's appointment to a parliamentary committee despite warnings it would fuel the public's low opinion of politicians.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox were among the Tory frontbenchers who joined 38 Labour MPs, three DUP MPs and Independent Simon Danczuk in supporting the nomination for the Justice Select Committee.
A rare vote on the Labour Party-backed appointment came after Tory Andrew Bridgen objected.
He questioned how Leicester East MP Mr Vaz could seek a position on a "prestigious and influential" committee when he judged himself "not fit" to be chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee by resigning after the Sunday Mirror alleged that he had paid for the services of two male sex workers.