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Mr Johnson tells the committee: "A royal yacht is not a priority." 

Several Tory MPs have been calling for a new, publicly-owned yacht or for the last one, HMY Britannia, to be brought back.  

He adds that it would not be possible to bring Britannia back into service, but he would not object if a "consortium of philanthropists" wanted to club together for a new yacht. 

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Germany's Constitutional Court has rejected a legal challenge to the EU-Canada free trade deal (CETA) from campaigners who call it undemocratic.

The campaigners object to the fact that parts of CETA will be implemented before all national parliaments in the EU have voted on it.

EU trade ministers are to vote on CETA next week. It requires unanimous support. If they all approve it, the deal can be signed on 27 October.

CETA would remove many trade barriers.

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Coverage of Thursday at the Northern Ireland Assembly, as GPs brief the Health Committee on primary care and the Justice Committee is updated on the department's 2017-18 budget.

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Andrew Rosindell asks if the Commonwealth flag will be flown from embassies and high commissions when the EU flag is taken down. 

Mr Johnson says: "I'll be happy to fly it just as soon as it's pointed out to me." 

Civil servants flanking Mr Johnson produce a quick sketch of the flag and show it to him...

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Conservative Andrew Rosindell asks the foreign secretary how he will ensure the Commonwealth will be "paramount" in the Foreign Office's planning.

Mr Johnson replies it is a "vital" asset and Commonwealth countries have been "bounding ahead". 

Brexit will allow us to forge free trade agreements with them, he predicts.

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Boris Johnson says that devolved administrations will be as closely involved in Brexit discussions as possible but refuses to say there will be an agreed negotiating position with them.  

Stephen Gethins tells him this "contradicts" what Theresa May told the Scottish first minister. 

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Mr Gethins suggests "nobody has a scoobie" about whether the government's objective is to stay in the single market. 

Mr Johnson rejoins: "You seem to think the single market is like the Groucho Club - we will retain access to goods and services."

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The SNP's Stephen Gethins asks the foreign secretary outright if he believes we should be in the single market. 

Mr Johnson says the term is "increasingly useless" but the UK will get a "good deal". 

He adds any attempt to "punish" the UK would not make sense. 

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Labour MP Kerry McCarthy asks what is being done to improve food labelling.

Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom says that leaving the EU will make it "easier to identify our own home-grown food".

Ms McCarthy argues that the UK can already follow the lead of other EU states on "country of origin labelling".

Following supplementary questions, Mrs Leadsom says she is shortly to travel to France and China to "promote great British food".

Speaker John Bercow opines: "The excitement in the secretary of state's life knows no bounds."

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Mr Baron asks if the UK's relationship with the EU could be improved by the removal of "the awkward Brits". 

Mr Johnson answers: "Of course," adding that Brexit should be seen as a "positive thing" after what has at times been a "tense" union. 

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Mr Baron says "if all else fails we'd be able to fall back on WTO rules" and asks if that "holds any fear" for the foreign secretary.

"You're tempting me into what we call running commentary," Mr Johnson replies, declining to specify. 

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Conservative John Baron asks the foreign secretary what he would say to "alarmists" who think "we are heading to hell in a handbasket" after Brexit. 

Mr Johnson says: "Those who prophesied doom have been proved wrong and will continue to be proved wrong."

The UK has "symmetrical interests" with other EU countries, he stresses.

House of Commons
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Environment questions kick off with one from Labour's Mary Creagh, asking what progress has been made on increasing soil carbon levels by 0.4% each year.

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The second of today's two backbench debates is on a motion tabled by Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi.

It concerns "an Expert Working Panel Group Inquiry... set up by the government to investigate and assess evidence on children born with serious deformities due to hormone pregnancy test drugs taken by expectant mothers between 1953 and 1975".

The motion also "notes with concern that the terms of reference as set out by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency do not clearly allow for an investigation into the systematic regulatory failures of government bodies at the time" and accuses some panel members of a "conflict of interest".

Ms Qureshi led a previous Commons debate on oral hormone pregnancy tests in 2014.

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Committee chair Crispin Blunt says Boris Johnson's optimistic view is contradicted by the "utterly dire" resources at his disposal. 

Mr Johnson admits "we live in straitened circumstances" but points out the Foreign Office budget is rising, and "the game now is to make sure Overseas Development Aid funds chime with diplomatic objectives".