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You can read more about complaints about the behaviour of Deputy PM Dominic Raab here, look ahead to what might be in tomorrow's Autumn Statement on the economy here, and follow our live coverage of rising prices and the cost of living here

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We'll shortly be closing our live politics coverage, so here's a quick recap.

We've followed a Prime Minister's Questions which was a little more subdued than normal, with Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab standing in for Rishi Sunak who has attending the G20 in Bali.

Labour attacked Raab on allegations of bullying made against him, after two formal complaints were made about his time as a minister in two different departments.

He said he only learnt of the complaints this morning, which is when he asked for a formal investigation to take place. He said he was confident he had behaved professionally.

Some Tory MPs expressed displeasure at the prospect of the government raising taxes in tomorrow's Autumn Statement.

Other Tory MPs queried Raab on the government's plans to tackle immigration across the Channel, while Labour MP Catherine West challenged him on what the government is doing to tackle spiralling private rents.

After PMQs, Labour opened an Urgent Question into Channel migrants by criticising the government's lack of human trafficking convictions against gangs smuggling them across the English Channel as "pitiful".

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick responded, hailing the new deal agreed with France this week, and saying the government was "determined to get a grip on the problem".

Reality Check

Responding to a question during PMQs about whether there would be cuts in education spending in the Autumn Statement, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told MPs: “We are the top spenders as a percentage of GDP in the G7 on primary and secondary education.”

GDP is a measure of the output of the economy. The G7 is a group of countries: UK, Japan, USA, Canada, Italy, Germany and France.

The OECD publishes figures, external for public spending on primary and secondary education as a proportion of GDP.

Its most recent figures are for 2019, when the UK did indeed come out on top of the G7, spending 3.41% of GDP.

But the Institute for Fiscal Studies said, external that following large increases over the 2000s, school spending per pupil in England had fallen by 9% after adjusting for rising prices between 2010 and 2020.

Reality Check

Dominic Raab and Angela Rayner swapped stats at (Deputy) PMQs today, each giving a different picture of the UK’s growth performance.

Raab claimed that the “IMF has said we will have the strongest growth in the G7” while Rayner said the UK was bottom of the league table for growth in the last two years, citing the OECD.

Both are correct, but looking at different time periods. Raab is describing forecasts for 2022, while Rayner is discussing data from 2020 and 2021.

Countries bounce up and down league tables of growth depending on when their economic recovery happened - a strong Covid recovery in one year might put you top of the table then, but bottom the next year when other countries stage theirs.

OECD data on economic growth over 2020, 2021 and the first nine months of this year suggest that the UK’s economic performance is lagging behind our immediate competitors.

It says the UK’s economy is still 0.4% smaller than it was just before the pandemic started. All the other nations in the G7 group of leading advanced economies have recovered the losses made during the pandemic.

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Continuing with the discussion of immigration in the Commons, in response to Labour's Urgent Question, we've now been hearing from the DUP's Sammy Wilson.

He says ministers come with a new plan almost every year to deal with immigration issues, "and yet the problem gets worse all the time".

He suggests to Jenrick that people who enter the UK illegally shouldn't be able to apply for asylum.

Jenrick says Wilson makes a strong and compelling case, adding that the government is reviewing the legal framework to make sure it meets "the scale of the challenge".

If you're just joining us or need a recap, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has been filling in for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at PMQs. Here's what you need to know:

• Raab, who is facing two formal complaints about his behaviour during previous stints as a cabinet minister, told MPs he is confident he has behaved professionally
• Responding to questions from Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner, he said he first heard of the formal complaint against him this morning and this it is right that he be investigated
• On Ukraine, Raab said Sunak is rallying support at the G20 and ensuring energy supplies from other parts of the world
• On the UK economy, the deputy PM said the prime minister has been making clear for months that inflation is the "number one challenge"
• Raab said economic challenges faced by the UK are "global" and are caused by rising fuel prices, the after effects of Covid and the war in Ukraine, stating that a plan on how to get people through these challenges will be outlined in the Autumn Statement tomorrow
• BBC political correspondent Ione Wells notes that this PMQs could have been more awkward for Raab. He appeared to get loud support from his Tory backbench colleagues who jeered at - and at times drowned out - Angela Rayner’s questions, and cheered his answers
• PMQs was follwed by an Urgent Question from Labour on immigration, during which Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick is defending the government's policies

Labour MP Sarah Champion asks if the government has a "budget or a blank cheque" to deal with migrants crossing the Channel. She asks if it is right that money which is supposed to help the poorest in the world is instead "propping up the Treasury".

This is in reference to the fact that the government is now spending a large chunk of its foreign aid budget at home, much of it supporting asylum seekers and refugees.

The Home Office's responsibility is to make sure its spending is done wisely, responds Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick.

He says the government doesn't want "to be spending billions of pounds addressing this issue," and the government wants to move to a resettlement scheme like those from Ukraine and Syria had.

The SNP's spokesperson on justice and immigration, Anne McLaughlin, says £120m has been "totally wasted" on the Rwanda asylum plan, which could have quadrupled the number of case workers and cleared the backlog in asylum cases.

She says, instead of a "crazy, brutal and counter-productive" approach - the Home Office should "get the job done", along with opening up safe and legal routes for people to claim asylum.

Jenrick says the Rwanda plan is an important part of the government’s efforts to deter illegal migration.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick says partnerships across Europe have led to arrests, disruption of gangs, and capture and destruction of boats.

The agreement with France, Jenrick says, will enable the UK's intelligence services to be "in the room" with their French counterparts, with information passed on in real-time.

He says Cooper is becoming like a "broken record" on immigration, opposing "everything helpful" the government has done, while not suggesting anything useful.

He says the government understands the "instincts" of the British people, and they will do everything to secure the UK's borders.

We're now hearing an Urgent Question from Labour about immigration.

Home Secretary Suella Braverman is not present. In her place, Immigration Minister Roberrt Jenrick says dangerous Channel boat crossings are "completely unacceptable".

He says the government is "determined to grip this problem" and put the people smugglers out of business.

Jenrick hails the new deal with France agreed earlier this week - a strategic, operational plan including extra UK investment, 40% more British officers patrolling the French coast, and improved security at ports.

He says enhanced cooperation with France has already seen good progress: more than 30,000 illegal crossings prevented this year, hundreds of arrests and 21 crime gangs dismantled.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper says "additional beach patrols are welcome" and it was "unfathomable" that intelligence sharing wasn't already taking place.

She says the lack of convictions of these criminal human trafficking gangs is "pitiful".

She says the agreement doesn't include anything on safe family returns or safe reunion, figures for which she says have "plummeted".

The way the Home Office is handling local authorities, not even telling councils what is happening, is "disgraceful," she adds.

Labour MP Wayne David says in his Caerphilly constituency there are five foodbanks.

He says the users of the foodbanks want to know if there is a firm commitment from the govenrment to make sure benefits can always cover the costs of essentials.

Deputy PM Dominic Raab says the government is doing "everything we can" to support those who need help from foodbanks, and the government's "number one priority" is to get inflation down.

Ione Wells
Political correspondent

A hint of some of the discontent bubbling away in the Tory party ahead of tomorrow’s budget?

That’s certainly what Tory MP Esther McVey has let slip.

In explicitly saying she wouldn’t support tax rises unless the HS2 rail project is scrapped, she hints at some of the opposition the government may face from its own side about its tax rises expected in tomorrow's Autumn Statement.

Tory MP Esther McVey asks about the high-speed rail network HS2.

She says if the government has enough money to proceed with HS2 at any cost, it has enough money not to increase taxes. Otherwise, there's not enough money for HS2, she says.

She urges Raab not to ask Tory MPs to support any tax rises unless and until this "unnecessary vanity project is scrapped".

"I, for one, won't support them," she adds.

Raab says he understands her opposition to HS2, and there are "difficult decisions" to make which will be set out in the Autumn Statement tomorrow.

Anum Qaisar, SNP MP for Airdrie and Shotts, says it's not trade unions who have burned public services to the ground, it's not asylum seekers who are inflaming tensions, it's not those in low-paid jobs who are trashing the economy - it's the Tories.

She asks, can the deputy PM inform the house when this Tory government will accept responsibility for their social, economic and political mismanagement and stop blaming everyone else?

Raab responds that "it's not a matter of blaming anyone, it's a matter of the team effort, the shared endeavour with the Scottish government to make sure we get a grip on inflation, the number one priority".

He adds that inflation busting pay rises will only prolong inflation for longer and hurt the most vulnerable in our communities.

Conservative MP Peter Bone says if migrants crossing the Channel illegally "were immediately returned to France, it would stop illegal migration". He says this would also benefit the French as it would "stop thousands and thousands of people" from going to northern French cities.

Deputy PM Dominic Raab says the home secretary's agreement with France means a 40% increase in police officer patrols in France, as well as British police officers being integrated in the French teams.

Ione Wells
Political correspondent

This PMQs feels quite muted.

There’s no one guiding narrative to it that has proved particularly painful for the deputy PM, nor has there been a particular message he’s landed, with questions ranging from the economy to his behaviour to housing and Ukraine.

There is a lot of hubbub in the chamber as MPs appear to have been broken out into chats among themselves.

Jacob Rees-Mogg asks Raab whether he's noticed the people who are currently criticising him "have a record of bullying second-to-none".

He says a Labour MP left Parliament because of anti-Semitic bullying, a BBC journalist needed bodyguards at Labour Party conferences and a current member of the Labour Party was suspended from the House for bullying.

He asks whether Raab agrees this is at least "hypocritical, and may be a stronger word that is not necessarily parliamentary".

Raab replies that it's important that we all take responsibility for actions - saying that's precisely what he's done today.

Labour's Rupa Huq asks if the ban on no-fault evictions in the Tories' last election manifesto is back on "after zilch" from the last PM. Can Raab get it on the statute book so that no family is left out in the cold this winter "on a whim"?

Raab says he will ask the housing secretary - Michael Gove - to write to her.

Labour MP Catherine West says that private rents in her Hornsey and Wood Green constituency "are completely out of control". She says since the government "broke the economy and broke the mortgage market, the hope of owning a home is quickly receeding".

She asks if the government "will get a grip and tackle housing in my constituency and across the country?".

Deputy PM Dominic Raab says the housing secretary "is looking at the situation of renters and landlords very carefully, and legislation is coming forward shortly".

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Ione Wells
Political correspondent

This could have been more awkward for Dominic Raab.

There were questions about him, but it wasn’t all about him, in the way some of Boris Johnson’s PMQs were in certain stickier moments.

He did get a grilling from his opposite, Angela Rayner, about his admission formal complaints have been made about his behaviour.

Labour raised some awkward questions for the government and the (absent) prime minister - why haven’t they appointed a new ethics adviser yet? Who will investigate Raab? And why did it take Raab asking for an investigation himself, rather than the PM initiating one?

That’s something Rishi Sunak might be grilled on when he gets back from Bali.

Raab was adamant he refuted the bullying allegations, and would comply with the probe.

He appeared to get loud support from his Tory backbench colleagues who jeered at - and at times drowned out - Angela Rayner’s questions, and cheered his answers.

This wasn’t as embarrassing as it could be for him as a result, but with the investigation only just starting, he’s far from out of the woods yet.