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Politics Live - readers' edition: Friday 8 September

A pro-EU campaigner outside parliament yesterday as MPs started debating the EU withdrawal bill.
A pro-EU campaigner outside parliament yesterday as MPs started debating the EU withdrawal bill. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images

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 appears likely to be forced into an early tactical retreat over the European Union withdrawal bill, as Conservative MPs from both sides of the referendum divide flex their muscles.
  • Prosecutions against some black and minority-ethnic suspects should be deferred or dropped to help tackle the criminal justice system’s bias against them, according to a highly critical report written by the Labour MP David Lammy at the request of the prime minister.
  • The Liberal Democrat leader, Vince Cable, has written to the prime minister calling on her to publish evidence on the impact of EU migration that he claims the Home Office has suppressed.
  • A Conservative party election pledge to spend £227m raised through bank fines on 50,000 new apprenticeships has not been fulfilled, an investigation by Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found .
  • Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage will appear at a rally held by Germany’s far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) inside a renaissance fortress in Berlin on Friday.

Council byelections take place on Thursdays. There were 14 yesterday - far more than usual. Britain Elects has 13 of the results.

Here is the overall tally so far.

And here are the results in full.

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