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Politics Live – readers' edition: Friday 15 September

Jeremy Corbyn at work in his House of Commons office.
Jeremy Corbyn at work in his House of Commons office. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian

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.

  • Unions have ramped up the pressure on Theresa May over public sector pay by demanding a 3.9% rise for 1 million NHS staff plus an extra £800 to make up for lost earning power during austerity.
  • Charities have reacted angrily after the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the rapid increase in food banks showed a “rather uplifting” picture of a compassionate country.
  • Britain has called for urgent changes to international rules on aid to allow UK development cash to be used to help victims of natural disasters like Hurricane Irma.
  • The government has unveiled the details of its new national funding formula for schools in England but headteachers have accused it of “recycling” the funds from other parts of the education budget.
  • The head of the UK tax authority has warned that border and tax checks post Brexit could require an extra 5,000 staff with new customs checks costing the taxpayer up to £800m.

Local council byelections take place on Thursday. There were three yesterday. Britain Elects has the results.

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