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Your support makes all the difference.European leaders agreed to grant another extension to Britain’s membership of the EU at an emergency summit on Wednesday night, offering the UK a delay to its departure date until Halloween – 31 October.
Theresa May travelled to Brussels where she pleaded with EU leaders to delay Brexit until 30 June, rather than see the UK crash out without deal on Friday.
Most EU leaders appeared ready to back Donald Tusk’s proposal of a longer delay, but a decision was held up by French President Emmanuel Macron, who insisted on “no long extension”.
Here’s how the day unfolded:
Jeremy Corbyn is up now. The Labour leader welcomes his newest MP, Ruth Jones, who succeeds the late Paul Flynn in Newport West.
He also notes it is the 21st anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement and praises the work done to achieve it.
He says its important to remember communities that have been left behind, as high-level Brexit talks continue. Why are councils seeing their resources stripped back.
May also praises politicians involved in the Good Friday Agreement.
She says councils have more money this year, a real-terms increase. She says Corbyn voted against this.
Corbyn says child poverty is rising but councils in the poorest areas are having funding cut. Swindon, where Honda recently announced job losses, has child poverty is over a third higher than it is in Surrey.
He asks why Swindon faces cuts while Surrey gets more money?
May says Conservatives are delivering for local councils.
Corbyn says homelessness is up and presses the PM again on why the highest levels of child poverty deserve to be facing the greatest cuts.
May hits back, saying the government has cut taxes and overseen an increase in employment and wages.
Corbyn says food bank handouts to children are increasing. The situation is also set to get worse, he says. He asks about funding for deprived parts of the country.
May says local authority funding is becoming fairer. She urged people to vote Conservative as Tory councils charge less in council tax and offer better services.
Corbyn says it is a crisis in local authority funding.
May says councils are having to make some difficult decisions but its the fault of the last Labour government for leaving a huge deficit.
Corbyn goes back to May, saying councils have been left to cope with "vindictive, damaging austerity".
He says her policies have pushed councils "to the brink".
May rejects his claims, saying councils are getting more cash, and Labour would be much worse.
SNP's Ian Blackford says it is a tragedy that the UK is leaving the EU and warns it has threatened the Good Friday Agreement.
He asks if a second referendum has been discussed in the talks between Labour and the Tories.
May says her position on a second referendum is clear.
Blackford comes back and asks if they are cooking up a backroom deal with Labour.
May ignores this and says it is rich for the SNP to say they don't want to leave the EU when an independent Scotland would have had to.
Labour's Ronnie Campbell asks about access to the drug Orkambi for a constituent with cystic fibrosis.
May says talks are ongoing with the company in charge, and she will ensure the case is raised.
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