House of Lords
Parliament

House of Lords
Parliament

The Lords are also taking part in their first day of business after the summer recess, starting with questions to the government on: 

• serious crime affecting betting shops 
• improving the UK's productivity 
• the decision on the extra runways for London's airports 
• encouraging the teaching and study of drama in schools.

Then Lords will hear the repeat of a statement on the situation in Yemen, before moving on to day four of committee-stage scrutiny of the Investigatory Powers Bill., external

The dinner-break debate will be on eliminating HIV infection in the UK.

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Parliament

The day will begin with questions to the new Home Secretary Amber Rudd and her ministerial team. 

Many of the questions are focused on the housing of migrants.

Yesterday Ms Rudd announced that enough local authority places to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next four years have now been secured.

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will then make a statement on junior doctors' industrial action.

Junior doctors are striking over the imposition of a new contract, which changes the way doctors will be paid for weekend and out-of-hours work.

The first of four five-day walkouts is due from 12 to 16 September, with the last in mid-December.

The day’s main legislation will be the final stages of the Finance Bill - the measure which enacts the 2016 Budget.

If the timetable is adhered to, MPs are due to debate the cutting of the headline rate of corporation tax to 17%, new measures to tackle tax evasion and plans to scrap the “tampon tax”.

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Brexit Secretary David Davis will make a statement to the Commons on work the government has done on leaving the EU over the summer.

Prime Minister Theresa May has said formal EU talks will not begin until 2017, but vowed the process would not be "kicked into the long grass".

After a meeting of Cabinet ministers last week Mrs May announced the government would work for a "unique" deal for the UK which included controls on EU migration as well as a "positive outcome" on trade.

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Shadow home secretary Andy Burnham says it is a "little odd" for the prime minister to be ruling out a points-based system for managing immigration without "putting other options on the table". He claims that this is symptomatic of Mrs May's first seven weeks in office which he claims have been characterised by a "lot of drift" and a "lot of confusion" over the government's Brexit strategy. 

Labour, Mr Burnham claims, has a record of supporting a points-based system, noting that the last Labour government of which he was a member actually introduced one. 

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The UK has appointed an ambassador to Iran for the first time since 2011, as part of its aims for "more productive co-operation".

The Foreign Office announcement comes one year after the reopening of the British Embassy in Tehran.

"This is an important moment in the relationship between the UK and Iran," Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said.

Nicholas Hopton, a former British ambassador to Qatar and Yemen, will take up the role of ambassador.

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Labour MP Keith Vaz has just left his London home. He walked to his car and was driven off. He did not respond to reporters' questions. We do not know where he was heading but it is worth noting that it is Home Office departmental questions in the House of Commons at 14.30 BST - an occasion at which Mr Vaz is always present and nearly always asks a question - will he do so today? 

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

The World at One has been spending the morning in Cornwall to gauge residents' opinions on Brexit. Fisherman Timmy George is pretty clear where he stands, telling Edward Stourton that Mrs May is "backtracking" on the assertions that were made by Leave campaigners during the referendum and needs to show more backbone. 

He says the Cornish fishing industry has been "decimated by the powers that be" and calls for a 20 mile exclusion zone off the coast where only British trawlers can fish. 

"It is British fish, it is the English Channel and we want it," he says, adding that foreign vessels should be "kept out". 

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BBC Radio 4

The Australian High Commissioner in London has said it would be easy to negotiate a free trade agreement with the UK after it has left the European Union.Alexander Downer told the World At One that Australia would be looking to protect its equities in the UK market.  

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Reflecting on Theresa May's G20 press conference, Norman Smith tells BBC Radio 4's World at One that the prime minister may have spoken for nearly 30 minutes but actually said very little - which he believes is very much in keeping with her rather "inscrutable" and evidence-based approach to politics.

He says Tory MPs are prepared to cut the prime minister a lot of slack at the moment over her apparent lack of a Brexit plan because of a mixture of political loyalty and an acknowledgement of the massive task at hand. But he says that this cannot continue indefinitely and Mrs May will have to declare her hand at some point. 

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A doctor has described her "heartbreak" at being asked when she was "going home" after the Brexit vote. Doctor Rammina Yassaie, from Leeds, has Iranian parents but has lived in the UK her whole life. She described the moment the man confronted her and said Britain "wasn't [her] country any more."

The David Davis statement to MPs about Brexit will now take place at about 4.15pm, after an Urgent Question about Yemen. A statement on junior doctors will follow the Brexit one - it will start any time after 5pm, depending on how many MPs want to ask questions in the Brexit one.

The debate prompted by the e-petition calling for a second EU referendum, will still begin at 4.30pm, as scheduled.

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Christina and her partner have lived in the UK for eight years, but they are now moving back to Berlin. While she says no-one has explicitly told non-British citizens to leave the country, Christina said the "atmosphere" had changed and it was hard not to take the result "personally".

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Teresa Mackay voted to leave the EU and said things had not "fallen apart" as many people expected after the Brexit vote. She had this message for Remain voters who still felt negative about the result.