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Politics Live - readers' edition - Friday 14 July

Theresa May and her chief of staff, Gavin Barwell, at the Spectator summer party last night.
Theresa May and her chief of staff, Gavin Barwell, at the Spectator summer party last night. Photograph: A Davidson/SHM/REX/Shutterstock

I’m not writing my usual blog today but here, as an alternative, is the Politics Live readers’ edition. It is a place for you to discuss today’s politics, and to share links to breaking news and to the most interesting stories and blogs on the web.

Feel free to express your views robustly, but please treat others with respect and don’t resort to abuse. Guardian comment pages are supposed to be a haven from the Twitter/social media rant-orama, not an extension of it.

You can read all today’s Guardian politics stories here.

And here are some of the main ones on our site this morning.

  • Theresa May appeared to be heading for an explosive constitutional clash over Brexit after the Scottish and Welsh governments said they could not support the great repeal bill – the key proposals drawn up to extricate Britain from the EU.
  • Labour pitched an alternative vision of Brexit to the EU on Thursday during nearly two-and-half hours of talks with Michel Barnier and his deputy negotiators, which pointed the way for potential compromise on access to the single market.
  • An aristocrat has been jailed for 12 weeks after offering money to anyone who would run over and kill Gina Miller, the campaigner whose court fight forced the government to consult parliament before triggering the Brexit process.
  • Harriet Harman has called on Labour women to speak out against any abuse and intimidation aimed at female Conservative MPs, warning that “a misogynistic attack on one woman is a misogynistic attack on all women”.
  • The NHS has announced an overhaul of ambulance response targets, which will mean fewer 999 calls being treated as requests about life-threatening events and therefore requiring the quickest response time.

Council byelections take place on Thursdays. There were seven yesterday. Britain Elects has six of the results of the results.

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