Brexit Live: Davis statement & MPs debate new referendum

Summary

PM, at G20 summit, rejects points-based immigration system
Mrs May denies "going soft", saying there are better ways of controlling numbers
MPs debating petition's call for new EU referendum
Brexit Secretary David Davis making first Commons statement

Live Reporting

Pippa Simm and Alex Hunt

Recession fears 'fade' as UK's service sector growspublished at 12:11 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
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The UK's services industry rebounded strongly in August, suggesting the country will "avoid recession", according to a closely-watched survey.
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index, external (PMI) showed activity in UK services saw its largest month-on-month rise in the survey's history.
The index rose from 47.4 in July to 52.9 in August. A score above 50 indicates growth.
It effectively takes services back to pre-Brexit levels, Markit said.
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Sturgeon seeks UK 'coalition' over European single marketpublished at 12:11 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
Nicola Sturgeon has offered to form a "coalition" with like-minded UK government ministers who want Britain to stay in the European single market.
The first minister told BBC Scotland she was ready to work with those who were concerned leaving the market would be economically damaging.
David Mundell said Scotland's interests would be closely pursued by the UK government in Brexit negotiations.
Theresa May has said formal EU Brexit talks will not begin until 2017.
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'Not a resigning matter' for Keith Vaz, says Peter Tatchellpublished at 12:11 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
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Allegations about Keith Vaz are "a storm in a teacup", says hunan rights campaigner Peter Tatchell
Umunna: Committee ‘needs to hear from Keith Vaz’published at 12:11 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
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Home Affairs Committee member Chuka Umunna on the allegations about Keith Vaz's private life
Pollster: 'People feel we're not a united nation anymore'published at 12:11 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
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Pollster Deborah Mattinson from Britain Thinks explains what people feel about Brexit.
Jeremy Corbyn to suggest Labour members elect shadow cabinetpublished at 12:11 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is set to call for party members to be allowed to elect MPs to the shadow cabinet.
The Labour leader's allies also floated the idea of allowing party conference to have a say over front bench membership.
Currently the leader appoints the shadow cabinet, but some Labour MPs want to revert to a system under which they would elect its members.
The Parliamentary Labour Party is due to debate this proposal later.
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Lord Ashdown 'brownshirts' tweet criticisedpublished at 12:11 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
Meanwhile, former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown has been criticised for comparing Conservative Brexit supporters with Nazi paramilitaries.
Lord Ashdown tweeted that "the Tory Brexit brownshirts are stirring" ahead of next month's party conference.
Brownshirts was the name given to the Sturmabteilung, which acted as the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party during Hitler's rise to power.
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MPs to debate calls for second EU referendumpublished at 12:10 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
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MPs are to debate a public petition calling for a re-run of the EU referendum which has attracted more than four million signatures.
The petition calls for June's Leave vote to be restaged since neither side won more than 60% of the vote in the poll and turnout was below 75%.
It comes as Brexit Secretary David Davis prepares to make a statement to MPs about progress over the summer.
He is expected to say leaving the EU will offer "new freedoms and horizons".
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Points-based system not 'silver bullet' - Theresa Maypublished at 12:10 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
Theresa May has rejected a points-based system for controlling EU migration, one of the key promises of Leave campaigners during the referendum.
Speaking in China, the PM acknowledged people had voted for more control on the numbers of people moving to the UK.
But she questioned whether a point-based model would work and Number 10 later said it was "not an option".
Ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage said many people had voted Leave for the policy, backed by Boris Johnson among others.
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Monday's politicspublished at 12:10 British Summer Time 5 September 2016
Hello and welcome to our rolling coverage of the latest Brexit developments and political news this Monday. It's back to business for MPs, as they make their way back to Westminster after the summer recess.
In store for them today is a Commons statement from Brexit Secretary David Davis, who is expected to start sketching out the government’s vision of life outside the EU. He'll say the UK's vote to leave is about "seizing the huge and exciting opportunities that will flow from a new place for Britain in the world".
MPs are also due to debate calls for a second EU referendum, after an online petition gathered more than four million signatures. A demonstration against a second vote has been planned outside Parliament by the Invoke Article 50 Now! campaign.