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A vice president of the European Parliament has raised concerns about the UK's commitment to Northern Ireland.

Mairead McGuinness is an MEP for the ruling Fine Gael party in Ireland. She told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that "Europe is conscious of its commitment to Northern Ireland. I'm not so sure the United Kingdom is so conscious."

Ms McGuinness said that during her Brexit speech Theresa May "spoke of Great Britain, but didn't mention Northern Ireland all the time and that was noted on the island of Ireland."  

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Emma Barnett asked MPs Dr Sarah Wollaston, Gisela Stuart and Caroline Lucas if there should be a snap general election following Theresa May's Brexit speech.

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas believes there should be, saying: "Theresa May has no mandate for the kind of Brexit she is pursuing. I think she needs to go to the country now."

But Conservative MP Dr Sarah Wollaston doesn't think an election is "necessary" and "the public don't want it". 

And Labour MP Gisela Stuart said: "It is the Conservative government's responsibility to implement, on a national level, that decision."

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Former Conservative Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt offers a gentle rebuke for Boris Johnson over his comments earlier.

The point the foreign secretary was making was "perfectly reasonable", he says, but adds: "Any time World War Two comes into your mind as a politician alarm bells ought to ring... I am quite sure the foreign secretary understands that."

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According to reports, UKIP leader Paul Nuttall could be the party's candidate in the forthcoming Stoke Central by-election triggered by the resignation of Labour MP Tristram Hunt.

Is Labour facing a difficult fight?

"I don’t think so," says shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry.

She says Labour is the party that can hold the government to account and has to "get out there and put forward our messages".

She says Theresa May is "getting good press" for yesterday's Brexit speech but predicts her plans will unravel.

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Former Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable has told Emma Barnett on BBC 5 live that Theresa May’s Brexit negotiations “will not happen” as she wants.

He said the outcome would be “messy” rather than clean, with “substantial cost” for the UK.  

The Lib Dem politician also called for a snap election in the next few months to give the PM a mandate of her own for conducting the negotiations. 

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Was Boris Johnson right to invoke the Second World War as he warned the EU against inflicting "punishment beatings" on the UK?

The foreign secretary's brother, Universities Minister Jo Johnson, says he was "using colourful language to get across an important point".

This was that it is in the EU's interests as much as the UK's to agree a deal along the lines Theresa May set out, he adds.

Shakira explains why she was talking to ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown after they were photographed together.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been speaking briefly about Brexit at a press conference with her Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni. 

This is what she said. 

It may lead to more MPs getting questions but one minister seems sceptical about the ever-lengthening duration of PMQs. 

Today, it lasted 43 minutes - having pretty much started on time.

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Away from PMQs, there is an interesting story developing out of comments that Boris Johnson has made during a trip to India.

He warned EU leaders not to give the UK "punishment beatings" for Brexit "in the manner of some World War Two movie".

The foreign secretary said penalising "escape" was "not in the interests of our friends or our partners". 

Universities minister Jo Johnson told Daily Politics that his brother was "essentially making the same point" as Mrs May yesterday,  that it was in both the UK and EU's interests to conclude a mutually beneficial deal. 

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A selection of stories making the headlines following this week's collapse of the Stormont executive over a botched green energy scheme.

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The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg says the session has not "moved us a great deal further forward" on the issue of Brexit.

But she says it was interesting that three Remain Tory MP - Ken Clarke, Anna Soubry and Alistair Burt - focused on process rather than substance.

It suggests that after Mrs May's speech yesterday that the Remain caucus in the party are struggling to know "where to take the fight to next". 

The session has been going on for more than 40 minutes now.

Plaid Cymru's Hwyel Williams ends the session by returning to Brexit, suggesting leaving the customs union will be an "act of calamitous self-harm" for businesses in Wales.

The PM rejects this, saying Welsh firms will benefit from more open trading relationships with the rest of the world while the government would strive for - that phrase again - the most "frictionless" cross-border trade. 

A series of questions follow about local issues, including the NHS and flooding. As noise levels rise in the House, Speaker John Bercow slaps down an unidentified MP, saying their contribution from a sitting position has "zilch value".

Ken Clarke asks whether MPs can have a vote on Brexit before 2019. Mrs May sidesteps the question but says Parliament will have countless opportunities to scrutinise and vote on the government's plans.

Two questions from the Labour benches on social issues.

Louise Ellman asks about social care and delays to vulnerable patients being discharged from hospital due to cuts in council budgets, citing the case of a constituent of hers. 

Mrs May says there have been pressures but the government has pledged extra funding. 

Then Louse Haigh talks about Concentrix, the firm whose handling of tax credit payments for the Revenue and Customs has been sharply criticised.

Mrs May says the company's performance was "not acceptable" and apologises to people who suffered delays or distress. She says the contract will never be handed to the private sector again. 

A senior MEP rules out a separate deal to allow Scotland to remain in the single market.