Post-Brexit Britain has a historic opportunity to take on a new role as the global champion of free trade, Theresa May will say.

The prime minister will make her first foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet in the City of London.

She will also say more needs to be done to ensure communities are not left behind by the forces of globalisation.

Labour said her actions have betrayed her words and she simply represents more of the same failed politics.

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• Theresa May is to give a speech in the City where she will say the UK can lead the world in free trade.
• Boris Johnson is in Brussels for a meeting of EU foreign ministers. On the agenda: defence and security cooperation.
• MPs are set to debate changing the rules on police dogs and horses, to give them the same legal status as their human colleagues. 
• The government continues to deny that it contacted Nigel Farage before his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump, but he suggested that some ministers were in favour of using him as a go-between. 

As we bring the curtain down on Sunday's live page, here's a recap of the headlines so far.

• Nigel Farage says the UK can "do business" with Donald Trump after meeting him in New York - the first British politician to do so since his US presidential election victory
• Jeremy Corbyn says he will "not frustrate" the Article 50 process in Parliament as his predecessor Ed Miliband says there can be no second referendum "to reverse the result" on EU membership and calls for changes to freedom of movement rules
• French far-right leader Marine Le Pen tells the BBC Mr Trump's victory has boosted her own chances of being elected president next year.  
• The Scottish government is to ask opposition parties to unite behind it while lobbying the UK government over single market membership post-Brexit.  

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Lord Richards, former head of the British army, has told the BBC he is not concerned about Donald Trump's commitment to maintaining international alliances, saying the president-elect's insistence that European members of Nato pay more into its coffers could actually strengthen the organisation and send a clear message to Russia.

The former soldier, who is now a crossbench peer, told Radio 4's World this Weekend he was positive about what he knew about Mr Trump's likely foreign policy, in that his "instinct was to seek a dialogue with Russia" and work towards a "more rapid outcome" to the conflict in Syria. 

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Giving police animals the same legal status as officers injured at work is "unnecessary", the government has said.

A petition calling for a change in the law was set up after a Hertfordshire police dog and his handler were stabbed in Stevenage while chasing a suspect.

It is due to be debated in Parliament on Monday after topping 100,000 signatures in a month.

But the Home Office has said people who attack animals can already be jailed for 10 years so no new law is needed.

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The former shadow chancellor Ed Balls did it Gangnam style on Saturday evening - but will he live to fight another day - and make it to Blackpool? 

The Scottish government is to ask opposition parties to unite behind it while lobbying the UK government over single market membership post-Brexit.

Economy Secretary Keith Brown will lead a debate at Holyrood on Tuesday seeking unanimous support for market access.

He called the EU a "vital trading body" for Scotland, asking the UK to "explore all avenues to protect this access".

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UKIP leadership contender Suzanne Evans has said she's "really delighted" that the party's interm leader Nigel Farage is "out there representing Britain" in the United States, and in her words "saying hi Trump, welcome". 

Speaking on ITV's Peston on Sunday, she said it was "good news" that a British politician was "out there actually shaking Trump's hand and looking forward to a good, cosy future relationship". 

"Once we're out of the EU it’s going to be much easier for us to do a deal with Trump in the White House," Ms Evans added. 

"He said we'd be at the front of the queue, so I'm very positive about that."

Suzanne Evans is joined in the race to be UKIP's next leader by Paul Nuttall and John Rees-Evans. 

Here's some more from Ed Miliband's interview with Robert Peston earlier, in which the former Labour leader said a "hard Brexit" will be the winner if politicians continue to call only for a second vote on the EU referendum. 

"If we cede the field and we say 'we're the people who want to reverse the result', then there are two choices in Britain: hard destructive Brexit, or reversing the result. I know what's going to win - hard Brexit."

Mr Miliband said there had to be a vote in Parliament before Theresa May begins her negotiations with the EU, so the country knows her plans. "That's not important for parliament," he said, "that's important for the country."

He continued: "At the moment the government wants to say, 'we'll conduct it in secret and not let the country into our plans'. That’s where pressure has to be applied in Parliament. I don't just have Labour MPs on my side - I have Lib Dems, Tories on my side - who say they're worried about a rush towards a hard Brexit and want to know the plan." 

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Speaking earlier on Pienaar’s Politics on BBC Radio 5 live, leading Republican Jim Gilmore said he believed Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the US-Mexican border is just a “metaphor", a ban on Muslims would be "unconstitutional", prosecution of Hillary Clinton “may not come to pass” and that Trump is committed to NATO.

Mr Gilmore, a former governor of Virginia and chair of the Republican National Committee, is tipped for a job in the Trump administration.

Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair Crispin Blunt said the prime minister had been "extremely wise" in her "very reserved" comments about President-Elect Donald Trump, and that the UK now had a "fantastic opportunity" to have a "decent relationship" with his new administration. 

Mr Blunt conceded that some politicians had indeed "rowed back" from their former comments about Mr Trump. 

However, he said that the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is "wonderfully charming and entertaining and he can get away with the row back."    

Jeremy Corbyn has said immigration into the UK would be lower if the country focused on the issues of wage undercutting and exploitation. 

Speaking to Andrew Marr, he condemned companies that bring in wholesale migrant labour to "destroy local working agreements". 

Mr Corbyn said where that has a "big impact on communities", local government needed to be properly funded to deal with the needs of those communities.

The Labour leader added that he wanted to see a government prepared to invest regionally. But he stressed that many migrants came to the UK in order to work and pay taxes.

"Blaming minorities doesn't build houses," he said.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Andrew Marr he was already working on potential "fair trade agreements" the UK could make with other countries. 

He said he had invited all socialist parties across Europe to come together in early February. 

Mr Corbyn said he would bring together European socialist parties, some of which are either in government or in coalition, to help the UK get a deal on market access when the country eventually left the EU.

He described Labour as "putting forward an alternative economic reality."