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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer asks if the PM is saying the 20,000 arrivals from India in April were bringing in essential medical supplies or food.

He says those in hospitality, pubs and clubs are "paying the price for the prime minister's failure".

He says they are asking for further support if they need to stay closed for another month. He asks when this will happen in England like in Wales.

Boris Johnson says that support through furlough and business rates means help is continuing.

"I know how tough things have been, and we will look after businesses throughout this pandemic," he states, "we will look after them all the way".

Sir Keir Starmer accuses the PM of coming up with "ridiculous excuses" and adds that the traffic-light system for international travel doesn't work.

He urges the government to secure the borders and "do everything possible to save the British summer".

Boris Johnson says 50 countries are on the red list and that Labour's leader is "flip-flopping" and wants to "close this country down to travel", which would be "totally pointless".

He tells his opposite number to "adopt a consistent position".

Sir Keir says the PM has not provided an explanation for the spread of the Delta variant in the UK, which he says is "much higher" than in other countries, blaming the "indecision" of the PM on borders.

"While the NHS was vaccinating, he was was vacillating," the Labour leader quips.

In response, Boris Johnson says the "big difference" between the UK and the rest of Europe is the speed of the UK's vaccination programme.

He again says the government took the "most drastic steps possible" to put India on the red list on 23 April, before Delta was identified as a variant of concern.

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says it is "time for a better defence - your defence is as bad as your border policy".

He says the prime minister kept India off the red list during April, and in that time 20,000 people from India came into the UK.

He asks what he thought the consequences of that would be. He says the British people did their bit, but the PM "squandered" their work.

Boris Johnson says the UK does "47% of the genomic testing anywhere in the world" so the UK has better systems to track variants.

Boris Johnson says the Delta variant is seeded "around the world, sadly" but in the UK 56% of people have been vaccinated twice.

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is up. He pays tribute to Jo Cox, saying she would have "gone on to achieve so much more" had she lived.

Turning to his questions to the PM he says the decision to keep the UK open to travel to India until 23 April contributed to a rise in Covid infections.

Boris Johnson calls Sir Keir "Captain Hindsight", as he often does at PMQs.

He adds that the Labour leader "voted 42 times" to allow Brussels to control the UK's borders.

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Before PMQs gets under way, Boris Johnson pays tribute to Labour MP Jo Cox, on the five-year anniversary of her murder in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum.

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Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has called Boris Johnson to the despatch box - this week's PMQs is under way.

Iain Watson
Political correspondent

We could see some political games played with frontiers this lunchtime.

Labour have been ratcheting up their response recently to the government’s handling of the pandemic.

Yesterday the shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds dubbed the Delta variant ‘ the Johnson variant.’

He blamed the prime minister for not closing the borders in February, and then for being too slow to place India on the ‘red list’ - which requires hotel quarantine for returning travellers.

The party also produced a ‘dossier’ - a device often used by oppositions to elevate political attacks into something more substantial.

Its contents could come up at PMQs as the lawyerly questions it poses would be suited to Sir Keir Starmer’s technique at the dispatch box.

For example - why were Pakistan and Bangladesh ‘red listed’ on April 9th but neighbouring India was not until April 23rd?

If asked, the PM is likely to say that the Delta variant was not officially deemed ‘of concern’ at this stage - and some other countries closed down later.

Labour also has a distinctive policy position on travel - to turn the entirety of the ‘amber list’ red.

Party insiders believe that a tough borders policy won’t do any harm in the task of winning back some of those voters who abandoned Labour in 2019.

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After PMQs, Boris Johnson will make a statement on his recent encounters with world leaders.

The PM had a busy weekend at the G7 summit in Cornwall and Monday’s Nato summit, so there could be quite a bit to get through.

After all big political jamborees, the PM comes to the Commons to officially update MPs on what was agreed.

As our political editor Laura Kuenssberg blogged on Monday, there were some big commitments at the G7:

“Big promises have been made - on vaccines, in particular - although there are gaps in the detail of how the vows will actually be kept.

"The prime minister and the US president seem to have made a good personal connection in their first full encounter.

"There were ambitious sounding statements on climate change too, although again, campaign groups question the extent of the commitments.

"The very real tensions on Brexit though flared between the UK and France, this summit following what feels like a time-honoured pattern of the main business being buffeted by a cross-Channel row about the EU."

Read Laura’s G7 blog in full here.

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The brother of a boy with severe epilepsy has been to No 10 this morning to deliver a letter to the prime minister asking for a medical cannabis prescription for his sibling.

Thomas Braun's younger brother Eddie can suffer up to 100 seizures per day.

The treatment was made legal with a prescription in 2018 for those with an "exceptional clinical need".

But since then only three NHS prescriptions have been issued, forcing families to spend thousands on private treatments.

The changes were introduced by former home secretary Sajid Javid, after parents campaigned to have the rules changed for those with severely ill children.

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Could MPs ask the PM about plans for Covid vaccinations to be made compulsory for those working in England's care homes?

The BBC has been told care staff are to be given a deadline of 16 weeks to get the jab, or face redeployment from frontline care, or potentially losing their jobs.

Care organisations have warned that compulsory vaccinations could cause significant difficulties in a sector that already struggles to recruit enough people.

The government, however, is believed to have considerable concerns about low take-up of the vaccine in some areas, including London.

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Later this afternoon MPs will debate and then vote on the Covid restrictions everyone in England is currently living under.

The government had hoped to be able to lift the rules from 21 June, but on Monday the PM said they would need to stay in place for “a few more crucial weeks” to get more people jabbed.

Cases of the Delta variant are rising rapidly - doubling every 10 days or so.

Labour has said ministers should have toughening rules on travel from India sooner - and they are expected to vote in favour of extending the current restrictions.

But a number of Conservative MPs have criticised the government for the four-week delay, and some of them will vote against the government tonight.

Read more here

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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of this week’s PMQs

The prime minister will be at the despatch box at 12:00 BST.

Immediately after question time, Boris Johnson will make a statement on the recent G7 and Nato summits.

We’ll bring you all the developments with analysis from our political correspondent Iain Watson, external, and the BBC Reality Check team.

Do stay with us.