Former MP and former BBC reporter Martin Bell tells @BBCBreakfast he doesn't think any party will be able to "overturn" the majority in what was Owen Paterson's North Shropshire seat in the by-election to come… The former MP stood as an anti-sleaze candidate in Tatton in Cheshire to unseat Neil Hamilton in 1997, as opposition parties stood aside (via @ionewells)

Former Prime Minister Sir John Major @bbcr4today: "I have been a Conservative all my life. And if I am concerned at how the government is behaving, I suspect lots of other people are as well." bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… Sir John Major: "Much of what they are doing is very un Conservative in its behaviour. There is a general whiff of 'we are the masters now' about their behaviour."

Justice Minister Victoria Atkins says the government wants to target the perpetrators of "so-called banter" against young women and girls in the street #cpc2021 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… Ms Atkins told the Conservative conference that she wanted to eradicate "disgusting" behaviour and attitudes within 10 years.

"I think people should trust our police," the Prime Minister tells #Marr @BBCOne Prime Minister: "We are not convicting enough rapists and we need to deal with it." #marr

NEW; THREAD: The Labour Party has been handed what it claims to be a business card for the financier Lex Greensill -- when he worked in government under David Cameron. Mr Greensill is described on the card as a "senior adviser" in the Prime Minister's Office -- and it includes a Downing Street email address and what appears to be a direct line landline telephone number.

It is Day 2 of Tie Minister. This morning’s beaten finalist on the left, taking on a new entry on the right. I’ll wear the winner @BBCBreakfast in the morn. In a major democratic advance, proper voting options tonight...in the tweet below. Polls close at 4am, when I get dressed Tie Minister... over to you @BBCBreakfast

Professor Martin Green, Chief Executive of Care England, tells the Health Select Committee that despite what others have said "there were cases of people....who were symptomatic discharged into care homes." Professor Green: "We should have been focusing on care homes from the start of this pandemic. The focus was on the NHS. Support was withdrawn." There was "destruction of our supply chains on PPE. We didn’t see everyone who needed a hospital intervention going to hospital."

The Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, has told us on the #CoronavirusNewscast: "I really hated selling myself to the membership." Asked whether the challenge of getting the Labour party through what had been "a turbulent time" felt "as he expected" he said:

“For me personally, I really hated selling myself to the membership and I much prefer leadership decisions as leader of the Labour Party.”

A Labour candidate who’s been deselected five weeks before the election says she was a victim of a “pretty sustained campaign of bullying and undermining,” reports @BBCShropshire #GE2019 @BBCShropshire Laura Davies was told on Monday after a phone hearing by Labour’s ruling National Executive that the party wouldn’t support her candidacy – which would have been her third in the Shrewsbury & Atcham constituency.

The PM spoke to Angela Merkel at 8am where a No10 source says she made clear a deal is ‘overwhelmingly unlikely’, and suggested to Boris Johnson that a deal would never be possible unless Northern Ireland stayed in a customs union, following EU rules (via @bbclaurak) @bbclaurak The source described the call as ‘challenging’, and said that if that was the EU’s position a deal is ‘essentially impossible not just now, but ever.’ The source described the call as a ‘clarifying moment’ and made clear...

THREAD: Awaiting @david_cameron at the Barbican in central London... He’s appearing at an event hosted by @thetimes

Some of Jeremy Corbyn’s closest allies interfered in the independent process designed to deal with accusations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, former party officials have told @BBCPanorama The former staffers say the leader’s office tried to provide ‘instruction’&officials brought in by the party’s General Secretary, Jennie Formby ‘downgraded’ some punishments to a ‘slap on the wrist’. Mr Corbyn insists his team has never interfered in disciplinary decisions.

The Conservative leadership candidate and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has warned Tory members not to choose the candidate where there’s no trust. Latest with @bbclaurak #bbcnewssix now Mr Hunt told @bbclaurak ‘it’s about the personality of the Prime Minister. If you choose someone where there’s no trust there’s going to be no negotiation, no deal, quite possibly a General Election which could mean we have no Brexit.’

Hustings tonight for wannabe PMs in front of the ‘One Nation’ Group of Conservative MPs. Sajid Javid first up; he gets a bang of the desks for saying ‘You don’t beat the Brexit Party by becoming the Brexit Party.’ Here’s another line Sajid Javid is using at the hustings: ‘One nation is a term that was coined by a prime minister who was a bit of an outsider. Pick a prime minister who is also a bit of an outsider!’

There are 12 demonstrators with no clothes on - apart from underwear — in the commons public gallery One bloke has some Y fronts on where he didn’t get much for his money

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the Speaker's intervention yesterday showed that John Bercow was "ensuring parliament is taken seriously, that parliament upholds its position as having a right to hold government to account." He blamed the delay to Brexit on the "sheer incompetence" of the government.