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The NHS is receiving "unprecedented sums of taxpayers' money," Mr Johnson says.

"Let me tell him that cancer survival rates have actually increased year on year since 2010 and more and more people are seen within the right waiting time.

"I think he should pay tribute to the hardworking NHS staff and stop talking down their incredible achievements.

"If we come back as the next government, we will invest massively."

Jeremy Corbyn's green tie - a nod to the report into the Grenfell Tower fire, which was published today - is drawing attention in the Commons.

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Mr Corbyn says 34,000 cancer patients waited more than two weeks for cancer treatment in the UK.

He asks: "Why can't he get it and put the necessary resources into the NHS to cut the waiting times?"

The Labour leader says the PM tells the Commons the NHS is "safe in his hands", but then asks: "Why has privatisation doubled... with nearly £10bn being spent on private companies within our NHS?"

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Mr Corbyn claims government officials have met US pharmaceutical companies five times as part of trade negotiations.

And he said the US has called for full market access to the NHS after Brexit "which would mean prices increasing up to seven fold" for medicine.

The Labour leader says: "While the government is having secret meetings, it is patients here that continue to suffer."

He then asks: "Why has the number of people waiting longer for urgent cancer treatment tripled over the last nine years?"

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The prime minister replies that the NHS is "not on the table" and he says he pays tribute to NHS officials who have lowered the costs of medicines.

He says this government is putting £34bn in the NHS and will build 40 new hospitals.

"This is the party that supports wealth creation," Boris Johnson says.

"For the last nine years this economy has been growing.

"He would ruin this economy and ruin the ability to fund the NHS."

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In his first question to the prime minister, Jeremy Corbyn calls Boris Johnson's deal a "sell-out to Donald Trump".

He refers to a Channel 4 documentary that claims the price of medicines has been discussed in trade negotiations between the UK and US.

Mr Corbyn ask why the PM has repeatedly said the NHS is "not on the table" in any trade deal with the US.

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also pays tribute to Mr Bercow.

He says he has used his speakership "to reform this House of Commons and our democracy is the stronger for the way you have done it".

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David Lidington is to stand down at the general election after 27 years as Aylesbury MP.

In a statement, he says it has been an "amazing privilege" to have represented the constituency.

He adds: "I have come to the conclusion that now is the right time for me to give a higher priority in terms of my time and energy, to my family who have given unstinting support to me during more than a quarter of a century in the House of Commons.

"I want to do that while I am still active and in good health."

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The prime minister begins PMQs by saying he will open the debate on the Grenfell Tower report later today.

He also highlights that it is the Speaker's last PMQs. He pays tribute to John Bercow, saying he has been "ruthlessly adjudicating" the Commons.

He says although they have disagreed in the past, Mr Bercow "has been a great servant of this Parliament".

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Speaker John Bercow is overseeing Prime Minister's Questions which is the last one before he steps down.

He is being watched by his staff, both past and present, as well as his wife and children.

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Prime Minister's Questions has begun as Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn face off for what may be the last time before the general election.

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The shadow Northern Ireland minister, Stephen Pound, makes an emotional plea to the Commons ahead of him stepping down at the next general election after 22 years as an MP.

He first thanks Julian Smith for his earlier tribute, and then says it is a "bittersweet occasion" for him at the dispatch box.

"But the bitterness is assuaged by the sweetness of the 21 years I have worked in Northern Ireland in that most beautiful part of the world with some of the finest and sweetest people you can ever, ever hope to meet," he says.

Mr Pound then "implores" the secretary of state and MPs in the next Parliament to "make every effort that those children born 21 years ago, who are now a new generation of adults in Northern Ireland, may finally, finally know the peace to which they are entitled and let Northern Ireland finally flourish and bloom in peace and prosperity."

Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith says Mr Pound is "absolutely correct", adding: "The conversations I have with young people in Northern Ireland are the most moving, the most humbling that I certainly have ever had.

"I will do everything I can to ensure the opportunity that those women and men have is maintained and flourishes.

"And all of the young people I have met show every hope for a successful future for Northern Ireland."

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The PM has entered the Commons to cheers. PMQs is about to start.

"We are the party of the NHS," declares a new graphic tweeted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. "We're putting more money into the NHS than ever before," a caption reads.

Carrying his signature, the image places Mr Johnson at the centre, speaking to hospital staff on a previous visit.

It's another potential preview of the sort of messaging we can expect in the campaign proper.

BBC health editor Hugh Pym analysed Mr Johnson's NHS spending pledges in August.

Back then, statistics from NHS England served as a "reality check" for the PM.

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Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood says Parliament will "look very different on the flip side of a general election" with the number of MPs leaving. So far, 51 MPs have said they will not stand in this election.

He says he calls on the prime minister to ensure that their party "aligns ourselves with the public" as a centre-right party, as opposed to "lurching to the right".

Of the election, Mr Ellwood says it is "going to be one of the tougher elections to predict" and it has "got to be more than that (Brexit)".

"I think we can actually do this," he says.

"We can make the case to the nation - not just about Brexit but who do you want to take the country forward in these very changing times?"

Boris Johnson is on his way to Parliament for Prime Minister's Questions, which is due to start at midday.

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Independent MP Lady Hermon asks why Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith is "dithering" over cutting the salaries of members in Stormont.

The Northern Ireland Assembly hasn't sat since January 2017 after a row between the governing parties - the DUP and Sinn Féin.

However, its members - known as MLAs - are still being paid.

Lady Hermon says the minister "cannot justify continuing to pay MLAs almost £36,000 each... when there is no expectation the Assembly will [return]".

She adds: "For goodness sake, give the people of Northern Ireland good news and cut their salaries."

Mr Smith says the MP has been "tough" on him on the issue before.

But he says he has committed to a review on MLA salaries.

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Lib Dem MP Layla Moran repeats her party's insistence that it will not support Labour in a post-election coalition government.

"We will not be supporting Jeremy Corbyn for prime minister," she says, before being asked: "Why not?"

"Because he needs to get his majority in his own right," she replies. "Let him do that.

"He is the most unpopular opposition leader in our country's history, that comes off a long record now of kicking and screaming coming to the referendum cause.

"We still don't know if Labour are a Remain party or not.

"Then there is the anti-Semitism issue in his party. This is a man who couldn't take hold of that. He doesn't deserve to be prime minister."