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Theresa May says she recognises the problems people sometimes have if they are living in accommodation that isn't up to standard, which is why her government is changing the rules to improve this.

Jeremy Corbyn counters that the Treasury estimated that it was losing half a billion pounds a year in unpaid tax from landlords.

"Doesn't this require government intervention on the side of the tenant and those in housing need?" he asks.

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Jeremy Corbyn asks if Theresa May believes putting £9.3 billion into the private rental sector is money well spent.

The prime minister says she finds it strange that he wants people to have their own home, yet criticises help to find them one.

To roars of "more", she cites the summer row over whether or not Mr Corbyn had been unable to find a seat on a train, and says of the Labour Party: "Even on rolling stock, they are a laughing stock."

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Jeremy Corbyn says the number of houses being built is 45,000 a year lower than under the last Labour government.

Theresa May says she noticed that the Labour leader had asked all his Twitter followers for questions to put to her.

She says the first one is "quite good", asking him to ask her if she knew that when asked who would make a better prime minister. "Don't know scored higher than Jeremy Corbyn."

She adds that whoever wins the Labour Party leadership will not be allowed near power again.

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn challenges the prime minister to say whether home ownership is "a dream" for most people.

Mrs May says it's important for the government to help people get on the housing ladder, adding that house building is up, but adds that she's not complacent.

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Conservative Neil Parish asks the prime minister for assurances that farmers will be protected during negotiations over Brexit.

Theresa May says she can give those assurances, but also that she wants to see how that industry can be developed for the future.

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Theresa May opens Prime Minister's Questions by congratulating the UK's Olympic team for their success - noting that they finished above China in the medals table - and adding her best wishes to the British Paralympic team in Brazil.

The Daily Politics

BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg says she believes Theresa May will state that people will just have "to wait and see" on the details of any Brexit deal.

She says even the White House press corps had asked a similar question during the prime minister's trip to the G20 summit in China.

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There are cheers on the Conservative benches as Theresa May takes her seat for her second-ever prime minister's questions.

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Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Ashworth claims two million voters will be excluded from the forthcoming boundary review, calling it "an affront". 

Cabinet Office Minister Chris Skidmore refuses to commit to changing the terms of the review, and says: "The status quo must not be an option."

He tells the House that cutting the number of MPs to 600 will save £66m over the course of a parliament.

The Guardian

According to The Guardian, Philip Hammond, external will seek to reassure banking bosses about the UK’s plans for leaving the EU on Wednesday, holding the first in a series of meetings to hear concerns from business leaders.

The chancellor will host top banking executives including Santander’s UK chair, Lady Vadera, a Labour Treasury minister during the 2008 crash. Vadera has been drafted in by the British Bankers’ Association to lead a taskforce to minimise the risks to the City of leaving the EU.

Members of a taskforce, the European Financial Services Chairman’s Advisory Committee, are meeting Hammond on Wednesday. Key figures in the group include bosses from Morgan Stanley, Nationwide, Aviva and Allianz Global Investors.

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The Daily Politics

Treasury minister David Gauke defends, on Daily Politics, the seemingly slow progress being made on the UK's exit from the EU

He argues that Brexit is "one of the most complicated, largest exercises" undertaken by government.

He says David Davis, who made his first appearance in the Commons as Brexit secretary earlier this week, had set out information about the new government department, adding: "We're not rushing this."

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Conservative Sir Eric Pickles, who produced a recent report on electoral fraud, tells MPs "it is harder to take out a library card or to collect a parcel... than it is to take out a postal vote," which creates "a peculiar risk to the ballot box". 

Cabinet Office Minister Chris Skidmore assures him the government takes electoral fraud "very seriously" and will respond to his report formally "in due course". 

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Labour MP Richard Burgon says he hopes his colleagues will fall behind Jeremy Corbyn if he is elected again as leader of the party.

He tells BBC2's Daily Politics that if Mr Corbyn's rival Owen Smith is elected "I will respect that mandate", adding: "And I'll encourage all my colleagues to do the right thing in the event that Jeremy is re-elected."