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I’m not writing my usual blog this week 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.
- The minimum wage will rise to £10 an hour within months if Labour wins the next general election, Jeremy Corbyn will say on Monday.
- Russian officials have launched a scathing attack on the UK ahead of a gathering of G7 foreign ministers on Monday, criticising Boris Johnson’s decision to cancel an upcoming trip to Moscow due to increased tensions about Syria.
- The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, has blamed the media and internal divisions for Labour’s standing in the polls as the party gears up for a local election campaign that could resurface questions about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
- A hardline pro-Brexit group backed by more than 20 Conservative MPs has called for net migration to be cut to 50,000 a year, with work visas limited to those earning at least £35,000 a year, a plan criticised by opponents as likely to damage the economy and harm the NHS.
- More than five times as many asylum seekers live in the poorest third of the country as in the richest third, according to a Guardian analysis, which has prompted leading politicians to call for a complete overhaul of the dispersal system.
