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After a day of questions about the state of talks between the government and Labour, it has finally been confirmed the two sides will meet again.

A Downing Street spokesman said: “We have been in touch with the opposition today and technical talks between officials will take place this evening.”

It comes after Theresa May spent the day meeting a number of her own MPs and ministers in No 10, as well as making phone calls to EU leaders ahead of Wednesday's emergency summit in Brussels.

Tomorrow, she will travel to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, then on to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron.

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The Commons is now discussing the situation in Libya following an urgent question from the SNP's Stephen Gethins.

According to the UN, at least 2,800 people have fled from fighting near the country's capital, Tripoli, with other civilians trapped by the clashes and cut off from vital emergency services.

You can read more on the situation here.

Foreign Minister Mark Field tells MPs that it is "yet again... another dangerous moment for Libya".

He adds that the UK continues to support the UN's "tireless work" on the ground.

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Lady Deech says the Lords should be willing to debate Brexit all week and suggests peers sit on Thursday, Friday and even Saturday if necessary.

The prospect of losing part of the weekend is too much for one peer - we didn't see who it was - who shouts out: "No, I'm not".

The cross-bench peer responds in kind, telling him "some of us are".

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Boris Johnson breached Commons rules by not declaring a financial interest in time, a committee of MPs has found.

The Committee on Standards said the former foreign secretary had failed to register a share of a Somerset property within 28 days of acquiring it.

The committee accepted he had not intended to conceal his interest and had apologised.

But it added that the Conservative MP had shown an "over-casual attitude" to parliamentary rules.

Read more here.

The Commons became musical on Monday afternoon when Speaker John Bercow called Labour's Thangam Debbonaire to speak.

Rather than his usual style, he chose to rock things up a bit, singing her name to the tune of Bon Jovi's Livin' On A Prayer.

The MP had to laugh, but also cursed internet memes, while Mr Bercow giggled.

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Michel Barnier has said the EU will stand "fully behind" the Republic of Ireland in all circumstances.

After talks with the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in Dublin, the EU's chief negotiator said he hoped for a “positive outcome” to the talks in London between the UK government and the Labour Party.

The political declaration on the UK’s future relationship with the EU could be amended “extremely quickly” if necessary, he added.

Mr Varadkar said other EU member states understood the need to avoid a hard border if the UK left the EU without a deal, and if the scenario arose it would be a “shared challenge”.

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Former Conservative leader Lord Howard says the "ludicrous" bill threatens the prime minister's royal prerogative powers, which allow her to make her own decisions as leader of her majesty's government.

He tells peers this "appalling piece of legislation is totally misconceived and should never reach the statute book".

But Lib Dem Lady Ludford disagrees, calling the bill a "happy blend of parliamentary accountability and government flexibility".

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock is currently responding to an urgent question in the Commons about medical cannabis.

It comes after campaigner Emma Appleby travelled to the Netherlands to buy medical cannabis for her daughter, but had £4,500-worth confiscated on her return to the UK.

Her daugher, Teagan, has a rare and severe form of epilepsy causing up to 300 seizures a day.

Access to medicinal cannabis was legalised in the last year but people have struggled to secure prescriptions in the UK.

Watch more of Emma and Teagan's story below.

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Crossbench peer Lady Deech says the bill does not "wholly achieve what it sets out to do" - namely to stop a no-deal Brexit.

She tells the Lords that it only forces the PM to "seek" an extension to the Brexit exit date.

That means if Theresa May asks and doesn't like what she hears, she can "put down the phone" and still have followed the letter of the law.

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Conservative peer Viscount Trenchard has criticised the Speaker of the Commons, resulting in a ticking off by his colleagues.

He said John Bercow had an "increasing willingness to allow his own political views and prejudices to interfere" with business in the Commons.

But after several interventions from other Lords, the peer ended his attack after it was pointed out to him it was against parliamentary rules to insult anyone in "the other place", e.g. the Commons.

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Former Labour MP Frank Field has confirmed that he will contest the next general election as an independent candidate.

The 76-year old Birkenhead MP resigned the Labour whip last year, saying the leadership was becoming "a force for anti-Semitism in British politics".

As a result, the party's National Executive Committee rescinded his membership.

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Peers have begun debating Yvette Cooper's Brexit bill that, if passed, will force the prime minister to ask the UK for an extension to Article 50.

Former defence secretary, Labour's Lord Robertson, is leading the bill in the Lords, and presented amendments which would ensure it can return to the Commons on Tuesday.

Conservative leader of the Lords, Baroness Evans, said the government's position had not changed, and it still opposed the bill.

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The Home Office has admitted breaching data protection rules when it launched the Windrush compensation scheme.

The department sent information to Windrush migrants in a way that meant their email addresses could be seen by other people.

An internal review has been launched and the matter has been referred to the Information Commissioner.

Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes apologised "unreservedly" for what she said was an "administrative error".

The data breach affected five batches of emails, each with 100 recipients, Ms Nokes added.

Read more here.

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Labour's Emma Lewell-Buck asks a question about the deaths of homeless people in the UK.

Communities minister Heather Wheeler tells the Commons that "every death of someone who is homeless is one too many" and the government has a "moral duty to act".

She says the government has allocated £200m to tackle rough sleeping and has a goal of halving it by 2022.

But Ms Lewell-Buck says there have been an estimated 120 deaths since 2013 in the North East, an increase of 71% in the region.

She says the government has pushed for such deaths to be fully investigated, but has "failed to supply the funding".

She adds: "People dying on our streets isn't really a priority for this government".

Ms Wheeler calls the figures "very desperate and sad", but says the government is taking forward work to make sure reviews take place.

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The public's dissatisfaction with how government is working is at a 15-year high, an influential study of political engagement suggests.

Levels of unhappiness are now greater than in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal, the Hansard Society found.

More than half of the 1,200 people questioned thought the UK was in decline and needed a "strong leader who is willing to break the rules".

And more than 40% said they could support new parties with radical ideas.

Read more here.