Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen, including David Cameron’s last PMQs, Theresa May becoming prime minister and starting her cabinet reshuffle and Owen Smith launching his bid for the Labour leadership
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Last night Labour’s national executive committee decided that Jeremy Corbyn would be allowed to take part in the Labour leadership contest without having to get nominated by 51 MPs or MEPs, like his opponents. But it also decided that party members will not be able to vote in the contest as party members unless they joined more than six months ago. (Instead they will have to pay £25 to become a registered supporter if they want to have a vote, but there will only be a two-day window during which they can apply.)
Related: Labour executive rules Jeremy Corbyn must be on leadership ballot
We’ve seen since the Brexit vote probably the largest surge in political party membership in this country’s history, with almost 130,000 people joining the Labour party and a great number of those joined on the basis that they would be able to vote in a future leadership election.
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Owen Smith, the former shadow work and pensions secretary, has been on the Today programme to announce his bid for the Labour leadership. He told the programme:
I will stand in this election and I will do the decent thing and fight Jeremy Corbyn on the issues, just as he will do with me, and at the end of that I will stand behind whoever the leader is. But I hope and I expect it will be me.
8.54am BST
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Two right-wing papers, the Mail and the Sun not exactly in agreement as Cameron bows out. http://pic.twitter.com/sdmJfed1wr
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