Summary

  • New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has faced his first Prime Minister's Questions

  • He asked David Cameron questions sent to him from the public saying he wanted it to be less "theatrical"

  • Cameron said no-one would be happier than him if PMQs was to be less confrontational

  • Mr Corbyn tells the BBC he will not campaign for the UK to leave the European Union

  • After Corbyn faced criticism for not singing the national anthem, Labour sources said he would at future event

  • Theresa May has been delivering a Commons statement on the EU's migration situation

  1. Salmond victory speech revealedpublished at 11:30

    Alex SalmondImage source, PA

    In non-Corbyn news, the text of the speech Alex Salmond would have given had Scotland voted for independence has been published, external.

    He would have declared a "new and unbreakable relationship" and said Scotland was "a nation reborn".

    The text of Mr Salmond's prepared speech has been given to James Mitchell, professor of public policy at Edinburgh University's Academy of Government, for future research, the Press Association reports.

    The Herald has published its full text., external

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  2. Corbyn to sing?published at 11:26 British Summer Time 16 September 2015

  3. Bigging up the opposition?published at 11:26 British Summer Time 16 September 2015

  4. Cameraman incidentpublished at 11:18

    The BBC has put out a statement on a reported clash involving a cameraman outside Jeremy Corbyn's home yesterday:

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    The BBC can confirm there was an incident involving a BBC cameraman while filming Jeremy Corbyn leaving his home yesterday. He sustained some injuries for which he’s received treatment. The BBC has spoken to the Labour Party who has confirmed the incident involved a government driver, not a Labour Party member of staff.”

  5. Corbyn on PMQspublished at 11:15

    BBC News Channel

    Mr Corbyn was also asked about his upcoming clash with David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions, which begins in less an hour:

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    It's going to be interesting. I do not suspect it's going to be easy but then our job is to hold the government to account. Our job is to speak up for ordinary people in this country."

  6. Corbyn on national anthem rowpublished at 11:12

    BBC News Channel

    Jeremy Corbyn

    We've just heard from Jeremy Corbyn. On the row over him not singing the national anthem at the Battle of Britain memorial, he said he was there "out of respect for that amazing moment in British history" and had been thinking of his parents and the roles they had played in the war. On whether he would sing the anthem in future, there was not a yes or no answer. He said:

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    I am going to be at many events. I will take part fully in those events."

  7. 'Respectful but powerful'published at 11:08

    BBC News Channel

    Sarah Champion

    Labour MP Sarah Champion says Jeremy Corbyn's first PMQs, which starts at midday, "is going to set the tone for the rest of the leadership".

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    What I'm looking for is something that is respectful but is also powerful. For me it is about tax credits, it's about the welfare system, it's about how we get people out of poverty."

  8. Hot topic..published at 10:58

    ..on Twitter at least. With over an hour to go, #PMQs is already trending:

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  9. Migration statementpublished at 11:00 British Summer Time 16 September 2015

  10. PIC: Cameron heads for PMQs showdownpublished at 10:50

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  11. Coming up after PMQspublished at 10:45

  12. PMQs predictionspublished at 10:35

    Brian Wheeler

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    A full-throated attack on David Cameron on inequality, welfare cuts, the banks and the Tories' friends in City hedge funds is what many on the left have been yearning for. And - in the supercharged atmosphere of the Commons bear pit, where reasoned debate and nuance takes a back seat to theatre - it could work. Alternatively, Mr Corbyn could attempt to take the moral high ground, deploying his mild-mannered, deeply serious style to wrongfoot the prime minister. Bookmakers are taking bets on what he will ask David Cameron, with migrants and refugees favourite at 4/7, followed by trade union rights (4/1), global poverty (10/1) and EU membership (14/1). He has said PMQs is too confrontational and he will refrain from "repartee", focusing instead on serious issues.

    What to expect from Corbyn's first PMQs

  13. Corbyn's press strategypublished at 10:36 British Summer Time 16 September 2015

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  14. Soapboxpublished at 10:33

    The Daily Politics

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    Sex worker Charlotte Rose on brothels and prostitution

    Campaigner Charlotte Rose puts the case to decriminalise brothels. She said prostitution was legal in England, Scotland and Wales, although the law had changed in Northern Ireland to criminalise men who use sex workers. In a personal film for Wednesday's Daily Politics, which she will debate with MPs on-air around 12:40 BST, she said police were no longer turned a blind eye to the sex trade in London's Soho, but prostitutes should have the same rights as other workers.

  15. Corbyn on anthem rowpublished at 10:21

    More from Team Corbyn, who look like they'll be making heavy use of social media to get their message across in the face of a hostile Fleet Street. He says it would have been "totally insincere" for him to have sung along yesterday.

  16. Crossing the floor?published at 10:17

    Robert Peston
    Economics editor

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    So here is the chatter: that one or a number of the New Labour Blairite ultras could cross the floor to the Tories, because of their personal relationship with Osborne - to whom they feel closer, in a political and social sense, than they do to Labour's new leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Osborne mixes in the same modish London metrosexual and metropolitan elite circles as them. He takes their calls, responds to their emails, and is fully abreast of their current agony. And they admire him. More than once I've been told, by a couple of their gang, that Osborne is the most impressive politician of the moment.

    The rest of Robert's blog is here.

  17. 'Tittle tattle'published at 10:16

    Here's the latest line from the Corbyn camp. It doesn't reference the national anthem row specifically, but criticises the media for engaging in "tittle tattle".

  18. Minister responds to unemployment figurespublished at 09:55

    Priti Patel

    Employment Minister Priti Patel says the rise in unemployment has to be seen in context.

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    Obviously this is a small increase. You have to look at this in terms of the wider increases in employment in the past year."

    She says the economy is "dynamic" and doing well.

  19. 'Enormous' expectationspublished at 09:50

    Victoria Derbyshire

    BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith says he is "almost apprehensive" on Jeremy Corbyn's behalf ahead of Prime Minister's Questions.

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    The expectations on him today to deliver something are enormous and if he flounders, you just know there are people on the backbenches who are waiting to pounce."

  20. Job facts and figurespublished at 09:45

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