Margaret Hodge described the dividend as "ripping off the State" and urged ministers to suspend all work with A4e.

The network urged ministers to put more weight behind fostering.

This newspaper has also launched a campaign urging ministers to rethink the proposals.

But the public accounts committee said it was "far from certain" consumers would benefit and urged ministers to oversee the roll-out more closely.

MPs have urged ministers to admit they are tacitly subsidising nuclear power despite promising that the industry would not receive such support.

The Daily Telegraph has urged ministers to think again with its "hands off our land" campaign.

He said Labour accepted the full recommendations of the High Pay Commission and urged ministers to do the same.

Opponents of the reform urged ministers not to try to reinstate the measures in the Commons.

Amnesty International urged ministers not to take the judgment as a "green light" to hand more people over to regimes where they risked unfair trial and torture.

He urged ministers to fully exploit the opportunities the sporting spectacular and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee will offer this summer.