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Politics Live - readers' edition: Friday 2 February

Theresa May and her husband Philip May walking through the Yuyuan Garden retail area in Shanghai on the last day of their trip to China.
Theresa May and her husband Philip May walking through the Yuyuan Garden retail area in Shanghai on the last day of their trip to China. Photograph: CHRIS RATCLIFFE / POOL/EPA

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 has criticised her minister Steve Baker but said she would not sack the prominent Brexiter after he aired claims that civil servants had deliberately produced negative reports saying the economy would be damaged by Brexit to influence policy.
  • China’s state-run media has commended a “pragmatic” Theresa May for resisting calls to publicly challenge Beijing over Hong Kong and human rights during her three-day visit.
  • Liam Fox said the government was not considering continuing a customs union-style arrangement with the EU, insisting it would restrict the UK in forging new trade deals with the rest of the world.
  • The main groups opposed to a hard Brexit are joining forces under the leadership of Chuka Umunna to push for the public’s voice to be heard on Theresa May’s final deal to leave the EU.
  • Labour is considering forcing landowners to give up sites for a fraction of their current price in an effort to slash the cost of council house building.

On Thursdays local council byelections take place. There were two yesterday. Britain Elects has the results.

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