Many parallels have been drawn between Brexit and Donald Trump's US election victory - but how is the political status quo going to react in Wales and America? Prof Laura McAllister on post-Brexit and post-Trump politics.

An Italian minister attacks Boris Johnson for allegedly suggesting Italy could lose Prosecco sales post-Brexit.

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Labour MP and former health secretary Andy Burnham tells MPs of his attempt to create a "national social care system".

He recounts being approached by his then shadow Andrew Lansley for cross party talks on the subject. 

Mr Burnham says he agreed and they met to discuss their ideas. One of the options considered was a levy on estates to pay for free personal care at home for the elderly.

He then says a "bombshell" was dropped a few weeks later - a Conservative campaign leaflet with the headline "Now Gordon wants £20,000 when you die" and advising people not to vote for Labour's new 'death tax'. 

He accuses the Conservatives of betraying his confidence and says the poster had a "chilling effect" on the social care debate.

"It set everything back," he says.

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Foreign Office Minister Baroness Anelay accidentally ennobles President-elect Donald Trump, during a question on the future of diplomatic relations between the US and the UK.

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Labour's Lord Campbell-Savours and Conservative Earl Attlee speak at length in support of the amendment, but Crossbench peer Lord Pannick again rises to point out the legal problems that the amendment faces.

Lord Pannick agrees that there is an issue that must be addressed but says he is "not persuaded that this is the answer to the problem".

He says that publicity can lead other witnesses to come forward to provide supporting evidence in cases of sexual offences, arguing that for many victims "it is only hearing that an allegation is being taken seriously" that will help them decide to come forward.

Lord Campbell-Savours intervenes on that point to says that "surely a person can come forward during a trial" - but Lord Pannick counters to say that often these cases do not come to trial due to a lack of supporting evidence.

The crossbench peer also says that the amendment would prevent the person accused from themselves publishing the allegation against them either in outrage at the charge or to canvas for alibis of innocence.

• At Prime Minister's Questions Theresa May accused Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn of being "not up to the job" as they clashed over the government's handling of Brexit.

• Boris Johnson is offering Britain a vision of life outside the EU that is "intellectually impossible", a leading European finance minister has said.  

• The number of workers in the UK from eight eastern European Union countries increased following the referendum, official estimates suggest.

• UK unemployment fell by 37,000 to 1.6 million in the three months to September, hitting an 11-year low.

• MP Jo Cox urged her colleagues to save themselves from her knife-wielding killer as she lay dying in the street, the Old Bailey has heard.  

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Carlo Calenda, the Italian economic development minister, has accused Boris Johnson of "insulting" Italy. 

In a Bloomberg TV interview Mr Calenda said:

 Mr Calenda added it was "unacceptable" that there was still confusion over Britain's strategy, almost five months after the referendum vote to quit the EU.  

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Liberal Democrat peer Lord Paddick is now moving amendment 219A which seeks to introduce a similar right to anonymity for those accused of sexual offences to that currently available to victims.

Lord Paddick says the difference would be that this anonymity for the accused would only be protected up to the point of charges being made - with provision for earlier withdrawal of anonymity in cases of public interest also being made.

"The protection of the rights of survivors cannot be at the unnecessary and unreasonable denial of the rights of the accused," he says.

The Bank of England will be able to tell banks and building societies to limit their buy-to-let mortgage lending from 2017, the government has announced. 

The bank's Financial Policy Committee will be able to instruct the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to place limits on loan-to-value ratios and interest coverage ratios.

Chancellor Philip Hammond said: “It is crucial that Britain’s independent regulators have the tools they need to keep our financial system as safe as possible.

“Expanding the number of tools at the Financial Policy Committee’s disposal will ensure that the buy-to-let sector can continue to make an important contribution to our economy, while allowing the regulator to address any potential risks to financial stability.”

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Labour's Clive Betts intervenes to suggests that the health secretary does not want to talk about funding.

He argues that the experts are in agreement that there is a funding crisis in social care and accuses Jeremy Hunt of being in denial.

Mr Hunt says he is coming on to funding but points out that at the last election Conservatives pledged to spend more on health than Labour.

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt tells MPs that problems in social care are not only about funding.

He notes that abuse in care homes was not down to funding but about "cruelty that we have tolerated in our system".

He says that the government has introduced the toughest system of care home inspections.

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Home Office Minister Baroness Williams of Trafford tells peers that the government believes that the current arrangements "strike the right balance" between protecting victims and upholding the general principles of openness and transparency in court.

"We are not persuaded," he says, that a "sufficiently strong" case has been made for the broadening of the existing offences.

Lord Marks rises to respond to the debate and says he is "not at the moment convinced" about claims that the current compensation powers are adequate in these cases.

Despite this and a few other issues with the government position, he withdraws his amendment.

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Crossbench peer and leading QC Lord Pannick argues that one of the amendments in this group appears to be superfluous, as the intended offence being created is already covered in other legislation.

Liberal Democrat peer and long-time campaigner on this issue Baroness Grender rises to support the amendments, saying that as legislators "we need to create laws that foresee the way that society if changing".

She stresses the need for anonymity in these issues for the victims involved.

Former justice minister Lord Faulks says that much of the law covering 'revenge porn' was covered by existing criminal offences, but tells peers that "such was the need" to cover this specific sort of behaviour that it was included in the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.

It is too soon, he argues, since the act came into effect for there to be an increase in the definitions within those laws.

A Freedom of Information request reveals the British Embassy in Paris has been stocking up on fine French wine – bought from the UK government.

The government’s wine cellar sometimes sells its high value stock off to balance its books, and last year this included 84 bottles of Bordeaux and 48 bottles of Burgundy, which crossed the Channel to the embassy, the Foreign Office confirmed.

The average cost of all the wine sold from the cellar last year was £177 per bottle.

Conservative minister Tracey Crouch might not be impressed - last year she called for, external British overseas embassies to serve British wine.

****Read more about the government’s wine cellar here