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PMQs is still going in the the Commons.

Dominic Grieve, a former Tory MP kicked out of the parliamentary party last month over his Brexit rebellion, claims special advisers in No 10 have been telling "outright lies" about MPs who backed the Brexit delay legislation they passed last month.

He says claims in the newspapers that some of the MPs received funding from foreign governments is "untrue".

He also questions Downing Street's ability to lead a probe into the claims, a prospect which was also briefed to the press over the weekend.

Dominic Raab replies that it is right the legislation passed by MPs gets "scrutiny", adding the government's position is that "advisers advise, and ministers decide".

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SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford says it is a "disgrace" that Boris Johnson is not present in the chamber to take PMQs.

He accuses the PM of "running scared from this chamber".

Turning to Brexit, he asks for a guarantee that Boris Johnson will not try to ignore a law forcing him to ask for an extension if a deal - or no-deal exit - is not approved by 19 October.

In reply, Dominic Raab says the government will "adhere to the law", and calls on the SNP to respect the "judgement" of Scottish voters in 2014 for Scotland to remain in the UK.

Reaching the finale of his Conservative conference speech, Boris Johnson sets out his vision for the UK once it has left the EU and contrasts this with what he says Labour and Jeremy Corbyn has to offer.

He says he is leading a "sensible, one Nation" government that will get Brexit done and then cut taxes for working people.

"We have always had the courage to be original, to do things differently, and now we are about to take another giant step to do something no one thought we could do to reboot our politics to relaunch ourselves into the world".

If his party dedicates itself "again to that simple proposition that we are here to serve the democratic will of the British people" and "do that with optimism and confidence then I tell you we will not go wrong".

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells the Conservative Party conference he wants "an Australian-style points based system for immigration".

Currently, those from within the EU do not need a visa to work in the UK because they benefit from freedom of movement - although there are limits on claiming certain benefits.

For those from outside the EU, there are similarities to the Australian system.

Points are awarded for having English language skills, being sponsored by a company and meeting a salary threshold.

A maximum number of work visas are awarded - the cap is set at around 21,000 a year but isn't often met.

Madeleine Sumption, director of the Migration Observatory at University of Oxford, told Reality Check: "There is only one way you can get in and that's if you meet all of those criteria."

"What the UK points system doesn't do is assess the individuals for things like their age and qualifications. The UK system trusts the employer to decide whether the person is qualified to do the job, while the Australian system is more centrally planned."

Read more: How could a points-based immigration system work?

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Pressing Dominic Raab on the government's efforts in response to the collapse of Thomas Cook, Diane Abbott says Labour is not asking for companies to be "bailed out", but criticises ministers for not meeting former workers at the company.

Citing the government's position in a number of policy areas, she says it is "letting women down".

In response, Dominic Raab says the Conservatives are "proud to be on our second female prime minister".

She also praises former PM Theresa May's record in areas such as human trafficking and couontering domestic abuse.

Boris Johnson devotes a lengthy passage of his Tory conference speech to spreading opportunity, through "levelling up" schools spending, building infrastructure fit for the 21st Century - through investment in buses, space ports and atomic fusion research.

On Scotland, he has a dig at the SNP government's Brexit policy "suggesting that it is one of the many bizarre features of the SNP that in spite of being called names like Salmond and Sturgeon they are committed to handing back those fish to the control of the EU".

Reality Check

Boris Johnson has told his conference that the UK will be able to have free ports after Brexit.

Free ports are small free-trade zones, sometimes called special economic zones, in which the normal tax and tariff rules of the country in which they are based do not apply.

There are more than 80 free ports and tax-free zones in the EU.

It would be easier to take advantage of the potential benefits of free ports outside the EU.

You can read more about them here.

Boris Johnson tells the Tory Party conference that he wishes to avoid, but is prepared for, a no deal Brexit.

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The Prime Minister says he wants to expand bus transport.

Reality Check looked at what has happened to bus routes around the country last year.

Why is bus travel falling?

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Diane Abbott is adopting a mix-and-match approach to her questioning of Dominic Raab in the Commons.

After an opening question on Brexit language, she asks the foreign secretary about abortion in Northern Ireland.

Her third question is about the "rape clause" for claimants for child tax credit, which she says should be abolished in the new universal credit.

For her fourth question, she asks about government efforts to help people affected by the collapse of Thomas Cook.

Dominic Raab defends the government's approach, saying ministers have not sat "idly by" and failed to help affected passengers.

Moving onto crime, a key focus of the Conservative conference this week, the prime minister recites a list of promises intended to make the streets safer, including 20,000 new police officers.

He says the government will crack down on county lines drug gangs who are preying on vulnerable young kids and "sending them to die in the streets to feed the cocaine habits of the bourgeoisie".

In Manchester, the prime minister now moves onto his domestic priorities - with a paean of praise for the NHS.

He says the universal tax-funded health service is "holy to the people of this country because of the simple beauty of its principle".

While its performance is, on the whole, amazing he says many of facilities are out of date and asking its dedicated workforce to operate in them is like "asking a premiership footballer to play on a ploughed field".

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As Boris Johnson continues to address the Tory faithful in Manchester, Labour's Diane Abbbott takes him to task about his use of aggressive language in the Commons

Standing in for Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs, she says her party colleague Paula Sherriff has received "four further death threats" since she raised concerns about this during a debate last week.

In response, Dominic Raab says there should be "zero tolerance" of abuse, but defends the PM's use of the term "surrender bill", saying the Brexit delay law would have the effect of undermining the UK in talks with the EU.

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Concluding his remarks on Brexit, the prime minister says he is determined to honour the 2016 referendum result and help the millions who voted to leave because they felt their communities had been "left behind, ignored" and starved of investment.

And he suggests that many people who voted to Remain also believed the result must be implemented because they are democrats.

Only by doing this, can the country be brought together, he tells the Tory faithful in Manchester.

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Dominic Raab is now on his feet in the Commons, taking questions at PMQs in place of Boris Johnson who is still delivering his leader's speech at the Tory conference.