Corbyn even more popular with Labour members after no confidence motion, poll suggests – politics live

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9.09am BST

Claire has already mentioned the YouGov poll of Labour members in the Times (paywall) but it is worth looking at the figures in more detail. YouGov polled Labour members during the leadership contest last year and their findings turned out be be a reliable guide to the eventual outcome.

Here are the key points.

Exclusive Times / YouGov poll – Jeremy Corbyn’s ratings go UP in last fortnight (from net +3 to +14) http://pic.twitter.com/av52WkggfY

Exclusive – Jeremy Corbyn beats BOTH Owen Smith and Angela Eagle in run-off ballots – with 57% saying they back JC http://pic.twitter.com/t69EGfNhx1

8.36am BST

Good morning. I’m Andrew Sparrow, taking over from Claire.

If you want to know how your MP voted in the Trident debate last night, we have a full set of party-by-party voting lists here.

Related: Trident: how your MP voted

8.22am BST

Hilary Benn says he has no leadership ambitions himself:

I am supporting Angela [Eagle] … it’s about time for Labour to have a woman leader.

There is a strong view … that there should be only one challenger.

I think that would be preferable, it’s the view of most MPs.

Jeremy has made a huge contribution and will continue to do so.

The Labour party is not going to split … It doesn’t belong to one particular group or any one individual.

I trust Labour party members … will realise, for all Jeremy’s qualities … how can he credibly turn to the people of Britain and say elect me as your prime minister?

8.16am BST

Hilary Benn, formerly the shadow foreign secretary until his middle-of-the-night sacking sent Corbyn’s shadow cabinet spiralling, is now speaking on the Today programme about last night’s Trident vote.

The longstanding policy of the Labour party has been to support the maintenance of our nuclear deterrent.

No one for a second thought that Jeremy would do anything other than stand up and express his long-held view … but it’s not the view of the Labour party.

Britain giving it up would not persuade any of the other nuclear states to follow our example.

8.05am BST

After apparently crashing shortly after opening the window for registering as a supporter – which, in exchange for £25, gets you a vote in the Labour leadership election – the Labour website now seems to be functioning without problems.

Until 5pm UK time on Wednesday, those who fancy it – and can promise they’re on board with the “aims and values of the Labour party and … not a supporter of any organisation opposed to it” – can sign up here.

7.55am BST

Sarah Wollaston, who chairs that health select committee, is on the Today programme.

She says MPs on the committee accept that health spending is going up, but that money has been shifted out of budgets for public health and training, as well as what she calls the “ongoing squeeze” on social care.

7.46am BST

The other item on the agenda when the Commons health select committee meets is, of course, its very critical report about pledges made by the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, on NHS funding.

As the Guardian’s health policy editor, Denis Campbell, reports:

The cross-party group of MPs refutes the health secretary’s persistent claim the government will have given the NHS in England an extra £8.4bn by 2020-21 compared with 2015-16. That was one of the Conservatives’ key pledges in last year’s general election campaign, and was repeated many times after that by David Cameron and George Osborne while they were still the prime minister and the chancellor.

It claims ministers have in effect performed a sleight of hand by cutting other parts of the Department of Health’s budget, such as public health and NHS staffing, in order to give NHS England itself a big increase in its budget. Critics have previously likened the strategy to “robbing Peter to pay Paul”.

7.33am BST

Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, appears before MPs on the health select committee later on Tuesday. And a column by Stevens in the Telegraph today gives a strong hint of what he’ll be saying:

The NHS wasn’t on the Brexit ballot. But it often felt as if it was. Emblazoned on the Battlebus, both Leave and Remain wrapped themselves in the mantle of a strong and better funded health service.

We’re still going to need committed professionals from abroad. Australian-style immigration points systems all admit nurses, doctors and other skilled experts.

It should be completely uncontroversial to provide early reassurance to international NHS employees about their continued welcome in this country.

7.00am BST

Good morning and welcome to our daily politics live blog.

Here’s a rattle-through all you need to know to set you up for Tuesday, before the live blog takes you along the way.

The person with the fewest nominations is Jeremy.

Party policy is also to review our policies.

Fifteen minutes into the PM’s Trident speech, and backbench MP David Cameron gets bored and surreptitiously pulls out his iPhone.

It will be the responsibility of everyone sitting around the Cabinet table to make Brexit work for Britain …

We will not allow the country to be defined by Brexit; but instead build the education, skills and social mobility to allow everyone to prosper from the opportunities of leaving the EU.

Is she personally prepared to authorise a nuclear strike that can kill a hundred thousand innocent men, women and children?

Yes.

The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 said that the prime minister could only appoint someone who appears to be qualified by experience. The lord chancellor is the only job in cabinet where there are personal conditions, laid down by statute, which have to be satisfied by the holder.

There is no one who could possibly suggest that Ms Truss met the bar set by that law. I wonder if the prime minister was even told about the statutory requirements before she appointed her.

What Owen Smith and other Leave deniers clearly believe, however, is that millions of voters have taken an ill-informed and reckless decision, one that proper grown-ups should have the chance to revoke. But instead of trying to put the sand back into the egg-timer, perhaps they should consider that for many Brexiters, their choice will have been as considered and closely argued as that of EU champions and liberals.

In terms of their own lives, leaving Europe and seeing an end to freedom of travel, or trade tariffs, or whatever else they object to, is obviously preferable. Who are Mr Smith and people like me to say that their view is less valid than ours, or that in their situation we might not feel the same? Are the majority of those 17.4 million far worse educated than the 16 million Remainers? It’s unlikely.

On Monday, [Boris] Johnson was gaffe-free and trying his best to be statesmanlike and switching between English and French. He told reporters the UK would maintain a ‘leading role’ in Europe and was not going to abandon it ‘in any way’ after leaving the EU …

There was even praise for the way in which Johnson spoke about the events in Nice. ‘Johnson spoke without looking at his notes at all,’ said another European diplomat. ‘He spoke in good French, saying the British people would stand united behind the French.’

Dunno about you guys but I feel sooo much safer with nukes…..phew……close one.

Last Monday, he was the Prime Minister. This Monday, David Cameron watches from the back rows http://pic.twitter.com/etoTxMa3lF

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