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Theresa May set for first Prime Minister's Questions | Theresa May set for first Prime Minister's Questions |
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Theresa May is preparing for her Prime Minister's Questions debut after replacing David Cameron in Downing Street. | Theresa May is preparing for her Prime Minister's Questions debut after replacing David Cameron in Downing Street. |
The new PM will go head-to-head with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons at midday. | The new PM will go head-to-head with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons at midday. |
She will also take questions from backbench MPs in the last PMQs before Parliament breaks up for the summer recess on Thursday. | She will also take questions from backbench MPs in the last PMQs before Parliament breaks up for the summer recess on Thursday. |
After PMQs, Mrs May will meet her German counterpart Angela Merkel. | After PMQs, Mrs May will meet her German counterpart Angela Merkel. |
The government benches will have a new look from previous Prime Minister's Questions, after Mrs May sacked several high-profile members of Mr Cameron's government in order to appoint her own cabinet. | The government benches will have a new look from previous Prime Minister's Questions, after Mrs May sacked several high-profile members of Mr Cameron's government in order to appoint her own cabinet. |
BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said PMQs mattered because of the exposure it gave the prime minister and was also important for her standing within her party. | |
Although she is an experienced Commons operator, this would be unlike anything she had faced before, he added. |