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Brexit live: Cameron and Corbyn address rebellious Commons in wake of Brexit vote
Brexit live: Cameron accepts there may be a case for an early election
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Harriet Harman, the former Labour deputy leader, says the country will pay a bitter price for last week’s vote. The Brexit leaders have created an atmosphere where some people think it is open season on foreigners. Does Cameron agree that the government is to blame for problems with public services, not foreigners.
Cameron says collective responsibility has been reimposed on the government. The government is now of one view, he says.
Cameron thanks Harman for appearing on cross-party platforms during the campaign. He says all MPs agree on the need to oppose intolerance.
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Keir Starmer resigns as shadow immigration minister
Responding to the Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, Cameron says ensuring the UK retains access to the single market will be one of the biggest challenges for the renegotiation.
Outside the chamber the Labour resignations continue. Keir Starmer has resigned as shadow immigration minister.
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With sadness & regret, I have resigned as shadow home office minister: Brexit has changed the challenge ahead. pic.twitter.com/l9NWXCh9zN
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Cameron suggests UK should stay in the single market
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Angus Robertson, the SNP leader in Westminster, says that Scotland is part of Europe and that it will do everything it can to stay part of Europe. That could include having another independence referendum, he says.
Asked about the prospect of a second referendum, Cameron says he is not planning one. We have to implement the referendum result, he says.
He asks if there are any plans to raise interest rates.
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And he says the government should not introduce further austerity measures.
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Cameron says he wants the best deal for the UK, including Scotland.
Simon Hoare, a Conservative, mentions a tweet sent to a black Londoner telling her to go home with the hashtag #wevotedleave. He says the racist attacks and insults since the referendum suggest a genie has been let out of the bottle. Will the government make it clear this is unacceptable? And do the police have the resources they need?
Interest rates are a matter for the Bank of England, he says. And future budgets will be a matter for the new government.
Cameron says people thought language of this kind had been banished. He says the police have the resources and laws they need to tackle this.
But he says Scotland benefits from being in two single markets. It should try to remain in both, he says.
(During the campaign Vote Leave said explicitly that they did not think the UK should remain in the single market.)
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Cameron says it is up to the new government to decide whether to join the EEA
Back in the Commons Kenneth Clarke, the Conservative former chancellor, asks Cameron if he agrees that, when MPs vote on all the legislation Brexit requires, they should follow their judgment, not be guided by a plebiscite. He also asks Cameron if he supports joining the European Economic Area. The EEA suits countries like Norway and Iceland where politicians want to be in the EU, but they cannot persuade the public, Clarke says.
Cameron says he agrees that parliament is sovereign, but he says MPs must respect the result of the referendum.
He says it will be up to the new government to decide whether to join the EEA.
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Rajeev Syal
Jeremy Corbyn plans to address a rally of grassroots supporters at the gates of parliament tonight after facing down his critics within the Parliamentary Labour party.
Labour’s leader will at first attend a crucial meeting of MPs where he is expected to face calls for his resignation including former members of his shadow cabinet.
But after calling for party unity, he plans to address a Momentum rally on Parliament Square, 20 yards from the parliamentary estate, sources said.
He may well be flanked at the rally by up to 20 MPs, who among those who remain loyal to Labour’s leader.
The address will offer a stark reminder to MPs that Corbyn’s support remains outside the Parliamentary party which has always been hostile towards him.
A source close to his office confirmed that he would address the rally following the PLP meeting.
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Cameron is replying to Corbyn.
He says it is not right to fight the campaign again. All he knows, he says, is that he put everything into it.
He agrees with Corbyn about the importance of fighting intolerance.
He says the government remains committed to sound public finances.
In future, it will be up to the new government to decide who to react to economic circumstances.
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Corbyn ends on a personal note.
He says he has many disagreements with Cameron. But Cameron delivered equal marriage, against the wishes of many of his MPs. He praises Cameron for his response to Bloody Sunday, and for his response to the murder of Jo Cox.
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Corbyn urges Cameron to start exit negotiations now
Jeremy Corbyn is responding to Cameron.
He thanks people for voting. But he says the campaign was divisive and negative.
He says Labour accepts the result.
Many people feel disenfranchised and powerless, he says.
Communities have been let down - not by the EU, but by Tory governments.
He says half-truths and untruths during the campaign. Leave campaigners have now been distancing themselves from those, he says. For example, they have retreated from the claim that £350m per week will be available for the NHS>
He says there has been an increase in racist attacks. He urges the government to do all they can to stop them.
He says the country will not thank MPs for indulging in factional fighting.
He says neither wing of the Tory party has an exit plan. So Labour must be fully involved. It wants to protect social and employment rights, he says.
He says we cannot be in a state of paralysis for the next three months.
He says Cameron should begin negotiations when he goes to Brussels.
He asks Cameron to confirm that taxes will not go up.
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Cameron says a new civil service unit has been set up to prepare for the withdrawal negotiations. It will be staffed by the brightest and best from Westminster. It will prepare options for the new prime minister.
He says Oliver Letwin is overseeing the process. Letwin will not play a part in the Tory leadership contest. He will consider proposals from MPs from all sides of the House.
Cameron says he has consulted the devolved administrations, and London, and they will be involved in the process.
He will go to a summit in Brussels tomorrow but he will not invoke article 50 immediately, he says.
He says that it is important to stress Britain is not turning its back on the world.
Security cooperation with the EU will continue, he says.
He winds up by saying Britain is in a strong position.
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Cameron says the result is not the one he wanted. But he and the cabinet have agreed it must be respected.
He says hate crimes and attacks on foreigners must be stamped out. These people have come here and made a wonderful contribution, he says.
He says there will be no immediate changes to people’s rights.
The withdrawal negotiations will start under a new prime minister, he says.
He says the economy is well placed to face the challenges ahead.
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David Cameron's Commons statement on the EU referendum
David Cameron is giving his Commons statement on the referendum.
He says MPs voted for a referendum by a margin of six to one.
He welcomes the new MP for Tooting, Rosena Allin-Khan, who has just been sworn in. He advises her to keep her mobile phone on. She could be in the shadow cabinet by the end of the day, he jokes.
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Cameron says he called the Polish prime minister earlier today to say that the government is taking anti-Polish attacks very seriously and that it is doing everything it can to protect Poles in the UK.
The United States will retain its special relationship with the UK, US secretary of state John Kerry has said, but Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union would have consequences.
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Speaking to the media in Brussels, the US’s most senior diplomat called for “sensitive, thoughtful, responsible and strategic” leadership, and said the US would do everything it could to make the transition “as sensible as possible”.
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During the campaign, the US president Barack Obama made an heartfelt appeal for the UK to remain in the European Union, but now accepts the result.
Back in the Commons, Labour’s Pat McFadden says Boris Johnson in his Telegraph article this morning said he wanted the UK to have full access to the single market. Is there any country with full access to the single market that does not allow free movement of labour?
“That’s democracy,” Kerry said. “We respect the rights of the voters, we respect the process, so it is now up to leaders to implement and do so in a way that is responsible, thoughtful, sensitive and strategic.”
Cameron says there is no country with full access to the single market that does not also pay a contribution and allow free movement.
But he stressed the rupture with the EU would have consequences. “Does that mean it doesn’t present difficulties? No there are challenges. Does that mean it is without any impact? No clearly that is not possible either, because there are consequences.”
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The US secretary of state is heading to London to meet foreign secretary Philip Hammond. His main priority in Brussels was to stress enduring transatlantic ties with the EU.
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“The United States cares about a strong EU,” Kerry said. “The interests and the values that brought is together are the same after that vote as they were before.”
Henry McDonald
He pleaded for leaders to avoid “scatterbrained or vengeful premises”.
Ireland’s foreign minister has described the surge in Irish passport applications from people living in post-Brexit UK as “unnecessary.”
Charlie Flanagan has appealed today for calm in relation to passport applications.
Ahead of a debate about Brexit’s implications for the Republic in the Dail (Irish parliament) Flanagan said:
An unnecessary surge in applications for Irish passports will place significant pressure on the system and on turnaround times and is likely to impact those with a genuine need for passports to facilitate imminent travel plans.
The increased interest clearly points to a sense of concern among some UK passport holders that the rights they enjoy as EU citizens are about to abruptly end. I want to state clearly that this is not the case. The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union but it has not yet left.
It will take some time for negotiations on a British exit to conclude; article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty envisages a two-year negotiation process once the article is triggered, while many speculate this could take longer. During this period, the UK remains a member of the European Union, its citizens continue to fully enjoy EU rights including free movement of people within the EU. At the same time, the referendum has not in any way changed the entitlement to an Irish passport which extends to those born on the island of Ireland and those claiming citizenship through parents or grandparents born in Ireland.
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Chris Leslie, the Labour MP, says article 50 should not be triggered until the new year.
Cameron says this is a matter for the new prime minister.
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Alex Salmond, the former Scottish first minister, says at 9am this morning Boris Johnson said the pound was stable. At lunchtime it hit a 31-year low against the dollar. If you break it, you own it, he says. Who is responsible for this mess?
Cameron says it was the government’s decision to hold a referendum.
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Britain Stronger In Europe chief says Corbyn should resign
Kate Connolly
Will Straw, a Labour candidate in the 2015 general election and executive director of Britain Stronger in Europe, has written a blog for the BSE website saying that Jeremy Corbyn undermined the remain campaign and that he should resign. Here’s an extract.
The Germans are now asking themselves whether they - or more specifically Angela Merkel - might not be to blame in part for Britons wanting to leave the EU.Jan Fleischauer, writing in Der Spiegel, under the headline “Is Angela Merkel to Blame for Brexit?” suggests:
Jeremy Corbyn should follow David Cameron’s lead. Under his leadership, Labour is further removed from its industrial heartlands than ever before with 29 per cent of its supporters threatening to go elsewhere. New research from the IPPR think tank shows that the poorest families will be hit twice as hard by new inflation caused by sterling’s slide as the richest—many living in areas that voted overwhelmingly to leave.
If we really want to take stock of the reasons for Brexit, we have to talk about refugee politics. You will never be able to prove what part Merkel’s policy of open borders had to play in the outcome of the referendum. But that the pictures of the refugees’ trek towards Bavaria scared the crap out of many Britons, is a given. If not even the disciplined Germans are willing or able to protect their borders, who else is capable of managing it?
Rather than making a clear and passionate Labour case for EU membership, Corbyn took a week’s holiday in the middle of the campaign and removed pro-EU lines from his speeches.
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Rather than finding imaginative ways for Labour to present a united front and get its message across to wavering supporters, Corbyn vetoed a planned event featuring all Labour’s formers leaders.
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Rather than confronting concerns about immigration with Labour’s values of contribution and reciprocity, Corbyn distanced himself from the manifesto commitment to restrict in work benefits for new arrivals to this country and planned a trip to Turkey to talk about “open borders”.
Yvette Cooper, the former shadow home secretary, says the arrangements Cameron described for consulting MPs were too weak. He just said MPs could have a cosy chat with Oliver Letwin. Why won’t he set up a joint committee to consider these issues?
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Cameron says he does want the Commons to be fully engaged.
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The pound has hit a 31-year low against the dollar, my colleague Graeme Wearden reports on the business blog.
Related: Pound hits new 31-year low, as Brexit fears grip markets – business live
ITV’s Robert Peston points out that this does not quite square with what Boris Johnson was saying in his Telegraph article this morning.
As sterling plummets to new 30-year low, could someone find out who told @BorisJohnson this pic.twitter.com/NKDI9Rsyyi
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Parliament needs to approve move to trigger article 50, lawyers claim
Owen Bowcott
Any prime minister will need parliamentary approval to trigger article 50 of the Lisbon treaty and initiate the UK’s exit from the European Union, according to a report by constitutional lawyers.
In a legal opinion published on Monday, Nick Barber, a fellow at Trinity College, Oxford, Tom Hickman, a barrister at Blackstone Chambers and reader at University Collegge, London, and Jeff King, a senior law lecturer at UCL, declare that: “In our constitution, parliament gets to make this decision, not the prime minister.” They add:
The prime minister is unable to issue a declaration under article 50 of the Lisbon treaty – triggering our withdrawal from the European Union – without having been first authorised to do so by an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament. Were he to attempt to do so before such a statute was passed, the declaration would be legally ineffective as a matter of domestic law and it would also fail to comply with the requirements of article 50 itself.
Their argument is based on the fact article 50 states that any withdrawal from the EU must be made “in accordance with the state’s constitutional requirements”. Traditional constitutional arrangements involve parliamentary sovereignty.
“Parliament could conclude that it would be contrary to the national interest to invoke article 50 whilst it is in the dark about what the key essentials of the new relationship with the EU are going to be, and without knowing what terms the EU is going to offer,” the three authors suggest. Handing parliament, where the majority of MPs are remain supporters, a veto on Brexit is not a legal interpretation that is going to be welcomed by leave voters.
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According to the BBC, 57 Labour MPs from the 2015 intake have signed a letter saying Jeremy Corbyn should resign.
57 Labour parliamentary candidates from 2015 - including nine from Scottish seats - have signed a letter calling on Corbyn to go
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The secret ballot on a motion of no confidence in Jeremy Corbyn will take place tomorrow, my colleague Anushka Asthana reports.
Labour has agreed to no confidence tonight and secret ballot tomorrow.
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Juncker assures Britons working for European commission their jobs are safe
The nearly 1,000 British nationals who work for the European commission have been assured their jobs are safe, the Associated Press reports.
Even though Britain has voted to leave the European Union, the EU commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, wrote in an internal memo that according to regulations, they are “union officials” and work for Europe.
He wrote: “You left your national ‘hats’ at the door when you joined this institution and that door is not closing on you now.”
The memo, distributed to commission personnel after the results of Thursday’s British referendum on EU membership became known, was obtained by AP on Monday.
