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It's been remarked that politics is the world's second oldest profession, but bears more than a passing resemblance to the first. In the latest installment of the Daily Politics's Soapbox series, sex worker Charlotte Rose calls for the decriminalisation of prostitution.

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In her statement Theresa May told the House that the UK had been at the "forefront of the humanitarian response", providing £1bn in aid and accepting 5000 refugees from places like Syria since 2011, with 20,000 more to come. 

She said  that plans to welcome those refugees in were in place. A new minister had been appointed to take responsibility for resettlement plan across government and a webpage has been set up gov.uk to provide help to Syrian settlers, she says.

She reveals she has also set up "dedicated gold command team" in the Home Office bringing together with other departments and local authorities to help with the resettlement programme.

Half an hour later than he would have hoped to have been taking centre stage in the Commons today Mr Burnham responds to Theresa May. He pays tribute to his predecessor, and former leadership rival, Yvette Cooper, and says the plight of refugees is a "humanitarian crisis on a scale not seen since the Second World War".

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Asked if his government was failing to deal with a housing crisis in the UK, Ed Vaizey says the government has taken steps to deal with the problem, and the government's commitment to changing planning laws to make house-building easier cannot be doubted.

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Shadow Energy Secretary Lisa Nandy says the biggest question from watching today's exchanges is not whether or not Jeremy Corbyn can sustain a new approach, but if David Cameron can. She says the PM reverted to type when it came to the SNP's question, accusing the nationalists of being "frit".

The new Labour leader told the prime minister that government changes to tax credits were “absolutely shameful” as he used a question from a voter named as Paul about the issue.

David Cameron replied there was a need for a country "where work genuinely pays" but broke off from replying to ask if all MPs were aware of the "new question time". 

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BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described today's PMQs as "a revolution in beige". Jeremy Corbyn's crowd-sourcing approach didn't go down too badly across the House, although asking "open questions" makes it a bit easier for David Cameron. PMQs, she says, is usually a "golden opportunity" for the Opposition leader to put the government on the back foot, and doing every week what Jeremy Corbyn did today might make it hard for voters to see Mr Corbyn as an alternate prime minister.

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Home Secretary Theresa May is now updating MPs on the migrant crisis.

That's it for PMQs. It was certainly different, with Mr Corbyn calmly reading out questions sent to him by Labour Party supporters. For the BBC's Norman Smith, it was "almost like a local radio phone-in".

Labour MP Sharon Hodgson accuses the Prime Minister of attacking workers' rights when trade unions are an "overwhelming force for good". She is referring to the government's Trade Union Bill which passed its first Commons test despite Labour opposition on Monday. The bill proposes higher voting thresholds for ballots. 

The PM defends the legislation saying it would stop strikes being called on a very low turnout and prevent disruption to public services so that working parents would be able to get what they paid for.

A Trident question gives David Cameron the chance to attack Labour over Jeremy Corbyn's views on defence. The PM says the government will spend 2% of GDP on defence, remain a member of Nato and renew Trident as "the ultimate insurance policy in a dangerous world". He adds:

David Cameron taps the microphone and says he will "take great care with my answer" as he responds to a question about a devolution bid from Yorkshire. Mr Cameron was recorded last week saying: "We just thought people in Yorkshire hated everyone else, we didn't realise they hated each other so much."