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Politics Live - readers' edition: Friday 23 February

Theresa May chairing a meeting of the EUXT (SN) [EU exit and trade (strategy and negotiations)] sub committee at Chequers yesterday.
Theresa May chairing a meeting of the EUXT (SN) [EU exit and trade (strategy and negotiations)] sub committee at Chequers yesterday.
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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.

  • Jeremy Corbyn could use a key Brexit speech on Monday to pave the way for Labour to inflict a Commons defeat on the government, by backing a rebel Tory amendment seeking to keep Britain in “a customs union”.
  • The UK will lose its rebate from the EU at end of 2020 if it seeks to extend the Brexit transition beyond then, the Guardian has learned.
  • Nicola Sturgeon has accused UK ministers of threatening to veto Scottish policy-making as their talks over Brexit reached a critical stage.
  • Justin Forsyth has resigned as deputy executive director of Unicef following accusations of inappropriate behaviour toward female staff while chief executive of Save the Children.
  • Jeremy Hunt is ordering an NHS crackdown on errors in dispensing drugs to patients, which research shows could be contributing to as many as 22,000 people dying every year.

On Thursdays local council byelections take place. There were 11 yesterday. Britain Elects and Election Maps have the results so far (nine of them).

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