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| The government has a "fundamental responsibility to bring our country together" in the aftermath of the EU referendum, David Cameron has told MPs. | The government has a "fundamental responsibility to bring our country together" in the aftermath of the EU referendum, David Cameron has told MPs. |
| The PM is addressing MPs for the first time since Thursday's vote to leave the European Union. | The PM is addressing MPs for the first time since Thursday's vote to leave the European Union. |
| He said negotiating an exit would be the civil service's most complex and important task for decades. | He said negotiating an exit would be the civil service's most complex and important task for decades. |
| Labour's Jeremy Corbyn warned his own party - and the Tories - against "internal factional manoeuvring". | Labour's Jeremy Corbyn warned his own party - and the Tories - against "internal factional manoeuvring". |
| Mr Cameron is to stand down as prime minister by October, and has triggered a Conservative leadership contest, while Mr Corbyn is facing a revolt in his shadow cabinet with members questioning his performance in the referendum campaign. | |
| The PM told MPs he did not take back the warnings he made during the campaign about the consequences of leaving the EU, saying it would be "difficult" with "challenging new negotiations" ahead. | The PM told MPs he did not take back the warnings he made during the campaign about the consequences of leaving the EU, saying it would be "difficult" with "challenging new negotiations" ahead. |
| While "all of the key decisions" would wait for his successor, he said there was work to be done in the meantime, and a new EU unit had been set up in Whitehall to "bring together expertise". | While "all of the key decisions" would wait for his successor, he said there was work to be done in the meantime, and a new EU unit had been set up in Whitehall to "bring together expertise". |
| He defended the decision to call the referendum, saying MPs had backed it by a margin of six to one, and said the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments would be "fully involved" in the negotiations. | |
| He also condemned "despicable" racist attacks that have been reported since the referendum result, saying they must be stamped out. | He also condemned "despicable" racist attacks that have been reported since the referendum result, saying they must be stamped out. |
| Mr Corbyn has been accused of lukewarm support - and his office of actively trying to undermine - for Labour's campaign to remain in the EU. | |
| He took to the despatch box amid a mass resignation of members of his shadow cabinet. | |
| In a message for the critics in his own party, he said: "Our country is divided and the country will thank neither the benches in front of me nor those behind me (where Labour MPs sit) for indulging in internal factional manoeuvring at this time." | |
| Mr Corbyn said the outcome of the referendum showed "many people feel disenfranchised and powerless", saying communities had been "let down, not by the European Union but by the Tory government". | |
| He called for reassurances that levels of EU funding that had been pledged would be protected, and attacked the Leave campaign which he said had "made claims they knew to be false". | |
| Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said he would continue fighting for the UK to remain a member of the EU, while the SNP's Angus Robertson said his party had "no intention whatsoever of seeing Scotland taken out of Europe". | |
| Scotland voted overall for Remain, and the Scottish government has suggested a second independence referendum could be needed to retain its status in the EU. |