Summary

  • May speaks about Brexit at Davos

  • Says UK to lead world on free trade

  • Audience is mainly business leaders

  • IMF's Lagarde warns UK of Brexit pain

  • UK to trigger EU exit talks by April

  1. Soubry and Burt seek EU guaranteespublished at 12:35 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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    Two other MPs - Paul Scully and Siobhain McDonagh -  bring up last night's FA Cup results although their sides experienced different fortunes.

    Conservative MP Anna Soubry returns to the subject of the EU, praising Mrs May's speech but urging her to put her 12 priorities and 4 principles into a white paper to be put before Parliament to ensure it can be scrutinised.

    Former minister Alistair Burt takes up the theme, urging Mrs May to consider her statement that "no deal is better than a bad deal" should be a "default position", not the government's "preferred option".

    The PM says she agrees with that - and that she is determined to build a constructive relationship based on mutual respect. 

  2. Past CIA interest in Jeremy Corbyn?published at 12:33 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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  3. Is UK foreign policy 'fit for purpose'published at 12:30 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

    Labour's Barry Sheerman asks whether British foreign policy is "fit for purpose" at a time when "dark clouds" are looming over the international order and institutions such as UN, Nato and the EU that have helped keep the peace since 1945 are "floundering".

    The PM says the UK is committed to playing a strong role in both the UN and Nato and her speech yesterday was about enhancing the UK's role in the world.

  4. Watch: Theresa May responds to SNP's Robertsonpublished at 12:29 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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  5. PM commits to action on government diesel carspublished at 12:28 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

    Backbench questions are now coming thick and fast. There is one on energy prices in the Scottish Highlands and a call from Tory Andrew Selous for all diesel cars to be removed from the government's car fleet. The PM says the process of greening government services is under way and will be continued.

  6. Labour MP offers to make breakfast for PMpublished at 12:24 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

    Tory MP Nadine Dorries is pleased with Theresa May's speech - saying it was "definitive, pragmatic and outward looking".

    The prime minister does not demur from this.

    Then Labour MP Chris Bryant urges the PM to come to his Cardiff constituency, offering to cook her "bacon and eggs" as an inducement.

    There is a serious point however. He says services are closing down across his constituency and a new food bank is located in the former Conservative office. He wants to know about the future of Revenue and Customs jobs in his constituency - Mrs May suggests it is a matter for the Welsh executive. 

  7. Watch: SNP's Robertson makes his Brexit pointpublished at 12:24 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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  8. SNP's Robertson warns of 'little Britain' Brexitpublished at 12:23 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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    The SNP's leader in the Commons Angus Robertson brings up the single market exit and its likely impact on Scotland.

    He questions whether Scotland is still considered as an "equal partner" - and citing research suggesting 80,000 jobs are at risk from a hard Brexit - he says "is this a price worth paying for her 'little Britain' Brexit".

    In response, Mrs May says that she wants a free trade deal that will benefit the whole of the UK and points that the SNP government's policy of independence will actually commit Scotland to leaving the single market. 

    On a similar theme, Kirsty Blackman asks the PM to guarantee that no part of the Great Repeal Bill will be considered in Parliament under new rules limiting votes to English MPs.

    Mrs May says the balance of reserved and devolved matters would be decided in due course and that, under current rules, any matters solely relating to England would be decided only by English MPs. 

  9. Watch: Corbyn makes point to Maypublished at 12:19 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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  10. Watch: Corbyn and May trade barbspublished at 12:18 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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  11. Lincoln win 'fitting tribute' to Graham Taylorpublished at 12:17 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

    Tory MP Karl McCartney brings up Lincoln City's FA Cup upset last night, when they beat Ipswich.

    The prime minister picks up on this, congratulating the team and saying it was a "fitting tribute" to their former manager Graham Taylor, who died last week. 

  12. May: Corbyn should 'try leadership some time'published at 12:17 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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    The Labour leader says the government's plans on migration are vague and he says that EU migrants who work in the NHS and elsewhere should be valued and their economic contribution recognised.

    Mrs May says that there is a difference between her and Mr Corbyn. She considers an issue, sets out a plan and then sticks to it.

    "That's leadership - he should try it some time," she says, to Tory cheers. That rounds off the leaders' exchanges. 

  13. Corbyn: PM avoiding question on free tradepublished at 12:15 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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    The Labour leader asks Mrs May whether the PM would be prepared to pay for "frictionless access" to the single market.

    The PM suggests her counterpart misundertstood her point and that she was referring to "frictionless" trade across borders.

    She says she is committed to geting the best possible deal over free trade and access for British firms to EU markets.

    The Labour leader says Mrs May has not answered his question and tries again - but again he says she is dodging the question. 

  14. Corbyn and May clash over EU tradepublished at 12:12 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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    The Labour leader says that the prime minister's veiled threat that the UK will not sign up to a bad deal risked demeaning the country and turning it into a lowest common-denominator low-tax economy.

    But Mrs May responds that she wants the UK to be outward-looking and prosperous, saying instead the Labour leader wanted to cap wages and borrow £500bn - which she said would limit aspiration and hit the UK's financial security. 

  15. Watch: Jeremy Corbyn on 'irony' of PM's speechpublished at 12:10 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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  16. PM: Corbyn 'does not have a clue'published at 12:08 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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    Theresa May says she unveiled a plan which would ensure and promote a global Britain and would put the "divisions of Brexit behind us".

    The prime minister reads out some comments that Mr Corbyn made about access to the single market, suggesting they were contradictory.

    "I have a plan - he does not have a clue," she says, to cheers. 

  17. Corbyn: Not 'Iron Lady but Irony Lady'published at 12:08 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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    Jeremy Corbyn is on his feet. He says that Mrs May "snubbed" Parliament by not unveiling her Brexit plan to Parliament first, while claiming she wanted proper parliamentary sovereignty.

    Referring to front page headlines comparing Mrs May to Margaret Thatcher, he says "it is not so much the Iron Lady as the irony lady". 

    Mr Corbyn says Brexit will have huge implications for people's lives, jobs and living standards and Parliament is being "sidelined".  

  18. Missed medical appointmentspublished at 12:04 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

    Tory MP Laurence Robertson is unhappy about people who miss appointments at GP surgeries, saying they cost the NHS. Mrs May says it is a nuisance and a burden on the NHS and says surgeries are now sending out text message reminders to patients. 

  19. Prime Minister's Questions is under waypublished at 12:03 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

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    Theresa May is on her feet. The first question from Labour's Kelvin Hopkins is about babies born with conditions caused by excessive alcohol consumption by their mothers. He urges the PM to look at this. The PM says she recognises the effect that alcohol can have on expectant mothers, and its role in domestic violence.

  20. Bercow: Andy Murray's won down underpublished at 12:02 Greenwich Mean Time 18 January 2017

    Speaker John Bercow tries to cheer up the Commons himself by informing MPs Andy Murray has just won his second round match at the Australian open. That's topical as Scottish Office Questions are about to wind up.