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- Theresa May takes her third Prime Minister's Questions from 12.00pm in the commons
- Faces Jeremy Corbyn, who focussed on housing crisis last week and a range of topics in first session
- Comes as May's predecessor David Cameron faces scathing report on Libya war
- Unemployment figures fell again this morning, as jobs market rides out Brexit
- But the threat of a new week-long doctors' strike looms over the NHS
Theresa May faces Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons for her third Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, on a day when the EU and Brexit once again dominated the world of politics.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU's most senior official, gave his annual assessment of the "State of the Union" at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in the morning.
In it, he bemoaned the rise of nationalism and "national interests" in the continent, pointing evidently to the UK's decision to leave as an example of this.
He said he accepts but regrets the result of June's referendum, and he urged Britain to get on with declaring its departure "as soon as possible".
Matters of Brexit will inevitably feature in questions from the Commons at noon, but they won't necessarily come from Mr Corbyn himself.
He has preferred to use his questions as Leader of the Opposition to focus on societal issues, most notably dedicating all of last week's session to the housing crisis.
Before PMQs starts we've got International Development Questions. Priti Patel and her team are taking questions from MPs.
The Speaker has just told off MPs for talking over the session and not listening - he says "some of the most vulnerable people on the face of the planet" deserve MPs' attention.
The Prime Minister will be along in a minute.
Labour's Alex Cunningham asks when the Government will publish its strategy on carbon capture storage for coal power generation. Theresa May says "this has been looked at carefully in the past. One of the key issues around this is the cost. We will continue to invest in the development of CCS".
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